March 1966, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles. A 7-year-old girl was sitting in a chair beside her mother’s hospital bed, singing quietly.…
November 12th, 1958. On the rain sllicked pavement outside Miami’s Fontaine Blau Hotel, Frank Sinatra watched a wealthy tourist deliberately humiliate a blind…
September 14th, 1954, on stage 4 at Samuel Goldwin Studios, Frank Sinatra watched a veteran director systematically destroy a young actor’s dignity, and…
October 1957, Macambo nightclub, West Hollywood. Frank Sinatra arrived at the entrance just after 9 in the evening and found Ella Fitzgerald sitting…
small diner somewhere in rural Pennsylvania, [music] 1994. Neil Diamond sat alone in a corner booth, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, grateful…
TD Garden, [music] Boston, October 1997. Neil Diamond stopped mid-p performance of Sweet Caroline [music] when he saw something that made his voice…
The International Hotel showroom could hold 2,000 people. And tonight, it held exactly that. Every seat filled, every table occupied, every pair of…
Banged Records, New York City, 1966. Neil Diamond sat across from Bert Burns, the legendary producer with connections to the Genoies crime family.…
How does it feel to be one of the bestselling artists of all time? The question sounds simple, almost playful. Are you talking…
I can still hear it. That sound. The echo of thousands of voices chanting my name. The vibration of the drums beneath my…