Waldorf Atoria Hotel, New York City, 2011. Neil Diamond stood backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, waiting for…
November 2014, a press conference that was supposed to be routine became the moment that shattered 50 years of assumptions. Neil Diamond sat…
The Caesar’s Palace spotlight hit Neil Diamond mid song when he saw him. Dean Martin, 63 years old, sitting alone in the back…
Fenway Park, Boston 2013. The Red Sox were playing the Kansas City Royals in front of 37,000 fans. Bottom of the eighth inning,…
Irasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, 1958. The annual talent show auditions were brutal. Only 10 acts would make it to the stage. Neil…
Brooklyn, New York, 1947. A tiny six-year-old boy stood on a wooden stage at PS181’s talent show. Neil Diamond could barely reach the…
The Trouador, West [music] Hollywood, August 25th, 1970. A 23-year-old British pianist named Elton John was bombing on stage. The club was half…
FBI headquarters, Washington, DC. 1967. J. Edgar Hoover sat in his office reading a classified file labeled 10044438, the monkeys communist infiltration. His…
Memphis, Tennessee, 1970. Elvis Presley sat in his recording studio at American Sound, holding sheet music for two songs by a Brooklyn songwriter…
Los Angeles, 1971. [music] Neil Diamond sat alone in the recording studio at 3:00 a.m. attempting take number 47 [music] of the same…