FBI headquarters, Washington, DC. 1967. J. Edgar Hoover sat in his office reading a classified…
Memphis, Tennessee, 1970. Elvis Presley sat in his recording studio at American Sound, holding sheet…
Los Angeles, 1971. [music] Neil Diamond sat alone in the recording studio at 3:00 a.m.…
Neil Diamond wrote a gentle ballad about young love. Innocent, [music] sweet, designed for teenage…
Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco. November 25th, 1976. The Last Waltz, the band’s farewell concert. The…
August 1969, a phone call that should have been every songwriter’s dream, felt more like…
The Long Beach Arena in June 1973 was hosting the International Karate Championships, the largest…
NBC Studios, Burbank, California, March 1974. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was the biggest…
January 13th, 1968. Folsome prison was buzzing with unusual energy. Even California’s most hardened inmates…
Cash did it anyway. If you sing that song tonight, this show is finished. [snorts]…