Fred Astaire To Audrey: ‘I’m Too Old For You.’ Her Response Saved His Career August 15th, 1956. Paramount Studios, Los Angeles. Stage 7. Fred Estair stands in front of a...
The Caesar’s Palace spotlight hit Neil Diamond mid song when he saw him. Dean Martin, 63 years old, sitting alone in the back row of the half empty theater, tears...
Fenway Park, Boston 2013. The Red Sox were playing the Kansas City Royals in front of 37,000 fans. Bottom of the eighth inning, Socks were losing. The stadium played the...
Irasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, 1958. The annual talent show auditions were brutal. Only 10 acts would make it to the stage. Neil Diamond, stood in the wings, clutching his...
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 microphone, even standing on his tiptoes. His...
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 empty. People were talking through his songs,...
FBI headquarters, Washington, DC. 1967. J. Edgar Hoover sat in his office reading a classified file labeled 10044438, the monkeys communist infiltration. His agents had been monitoring a TV band...
Memphis, Tennessee, 1970. Elvis Presley sat in his recording studio at American Sound, holding sheet music for two songs by a Brooklyn songwriter named Neil Diamond. His producer suggested safer...
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 song. His voice was raw from hours...
Neil Diamond wrote a gentle ballad about young love. Innocent, [music] sweet, designed for teenage fans and their parents. 1994. Director Quentyn Tarantino took that exact song and made it...