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Sweet Caroline: The Secret Kennedy Girl and the Song That Belongs to Boston
“Sweet Caroline”: The Secret Kennedy Girl and the Song That Belongs to Boston It happens at every Boston Red Sox home game, in the middle of the eighth inning, as regular as the tide. The music starts — that bright, unmistakable intro — and 37,000 people rise as one. They sing every word. They punch…
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Neil Diamond: The Heart He Gave Away
Neil Diamond has spent sixty years singing about love — the finding of it, the losing of it, the ache in between. But the most revealing love story in his life isn’t in any lyric. It’s in the marriages that shaped him, the children he raised across the chaos of fame, the city he comforted…
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How Neil Diamond and Rick Rubin Made “12 Songs”: The Comeback Nobody Saw Coming
By the early 2000s, Neil Diamond had become something nobody in 1972 would have predicted: a monument. The sequined shirts, the sold-out arenas, the singalongs — he was an institution, beloved and utterly taken for granted. Critics had long since stopped listening closely. The man who wrote “Solitary Man” and “I Am… I Said” was…
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The Untold Story of Neil Diamond: The Brooklyn Kid Who Gave Away a Fortune in Hits
Before Neil Diamond was the sequined showman of the Greek Theatre, before “Sweet Caroline” became the most joyful singalong in sports stadiums around the world, he was a pre-med student at NYU who could barely afford to eat. The road from a fencing scholarship to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ran through some…