This past sunday, I climbed the stairs next to a rare book shop and entered a quaint wood-paneled listening den in Santa Monica, nestled in a chair next to the music producer icon, Rick Rubin, (founder of DefJam Records, one of Forbes 100 most influential ppl in the world; and current co-head of Columbia Records; see picture below), along with 10 other diligent reporters (Rollingstone, LA Weekl...
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Late night talk host Jimmy Kimmel tried to make his post late night talk show host dream of becoming Neil Zarconia, a Neil Diamond impersonator, a reality on his show recently. It was no easy task for Kimmel, but with a little help from Diamond himself, Kimmel delivers a killer "Sweet, Caroline." Well, sorta. Neil Diamond embarks on a "US tour":http://www.neildiamond.com/pages/tour beginning Ju...
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Neil Diamond debuted for the first time ever on the Billboard Top 200 this week. Diamond’s Rick Rubin produced album Home Before Dark sold 146,000 copies its first week, nudging Madonna’s Hard Candy down two spots to Number Three.The crazy thing is that the last time Diamond came close to Number One spot was in 1973 with the soundtrack to Jonathan Livingston Seagull, when it topped at Number T
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Not many worthwhile CDs hit the shelves. Here are the ones worth checking out:... Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark... Gavin DeGraw - Gavin DeGraw... Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Momofuku... Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden... Barenaked Ladies - Snack Time... The Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement... Chris Sligh - Running Back to YouQUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT ALBUM RELEASE ARE YOU L...
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Who knew Neil Diamond was such a cool cat?I guess 1968 was just a weird year for everybody.
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Artist: Neil DiamondTitle: A Cherry Cherry ChristmasRelease Date: October 13, 2009Label: ColumbiaFormat(s): CD, Digital DownloadNeil Diamond goes back to the holiday well for a third time, after 1992's The Christmas Album and 1994's The Christmas Album Volume 2, with his new disc A Cherry Cherry Christmas. This time around, Diamond adds two originals, Christmas Dream and Cherry Cherry Christmas...
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One of the triumphs of Neil Diamond's career was the 1972 live album Hot August Night. The album captured the excitement of a Diamond live show in a way that had been much less successful on the previous Gold.On August 14, Diamond recaptures the excitement of that landmark with Hot August Night/NYC, a live album culled from his four-night run at Madison Square Garden in August 2008. This tim...
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Add Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Allen Toussaint to the list of performers for Sunday night's Grammy Awards. Buddy Guy, B.B. King , John Mayer and Keith Urban will salute the late Bo Diddley . Also look for a Four Tops salute with Duke Fakir , Jamie Foxx and Ne-Yo.With the Faces tour falling through, it looks like Ronnie Wood just might be available for a U.S. tour by th...
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MUSIC NEWS - A recent article in the Wall Street Joural claims that many top acts including Neil Diamond, Britney Spears, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Billy Joel and Elton John are "scalping" their own tix thru arrangments with ticket re-sellers. Despite the fact that Ticketmaster's TicketExchange marketplace has been promoted as a place where fans can buy and sell tickets they've already
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Neil Diamond and Rick Rubin are about to take their musical relationship for a third spin, returning to the studio to record the follow-up to their two critically acclaimed albums, 12 Songs and Home Before Dark . Diamond tells Billboard that the two will be meeting on January 12 to discuss the next steps. "I told (Rubin) I want to start writing on the 12th. He said, 'Why don't you not star...
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Neil Diamond has turned over the profits from his latest tour's t-shirt and souvenir sales to the victims of last summer's huricane Ike. He told CNN, "Hurricane Ike hit southern Texas so fiercely and has been forgotten about by the rest of the country - but these people are still in desperate straits, and are in dire need of our help. I saw what was going on. The mayor of Houston took me arou...
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