Neil Diamond: the loves of a lifelong Mr Lonely The private life of hirsute superstar Neil Diamond is one of loss and longing. But now, at 70, he's 'lovestruck' and set to marry for the third time, says William Langley. Neil Diamond: soon to be married, for the third time, the 'Jewish Elvis' is seemingly marooned in Vegas mode ' Every tour has its different touches, but there are certain things that it is reasonable to expect from the Neil Diamond package. A forest of chest hair, a coating of sequins, and a few poignant words from the star on his failure to find love. Here's Neil in the run-up to his celebrated ''Living Legends...

5 things Neil Diamond teaches us about giving presentations Whether you're a 'Brother Love' type of guy or a 'Sweet Caroline' kind of woman, here are lessons from the prolific singer/songwriter behind these tunes and others. By Brad Phillips | Posted: September 9, 2011 DataSource: The requested DataSource 5f4ce871-9abc-4ec7-89fd-43fb6c737f57 is not accessible. 3 inShare. I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1970s. Neil Diamond was the Jewish Elvis, the kid from the neighborhood who made it big, so I was indoctrinated early. The first cassette tape my parents ever owned was Neil Diamond's You Don't Bring Me Flowers. My mother ...

NEIL DIAMOND IS FOREVER Neil Diamond is set to wed his much younger girlfriend – and no she's not called Sweet Caroline Friday September 9,2011 By Anna Pukas Have your say(0) THE other day two young people of my acquaintance called Amy and Joel were pestering their father to change radio stations. They didn't want to listen to ''grandad radio'' (ie Radio 2), they said. Just as their father went to switch over, Sweet Caroline came on. ''No, don’t!'' they yelled and started dancing and singing along. How could this be? Amy and Joel are 13 and 11. Neil Diamond recorded Sweet Caroline in 1969 - 30 years before they ...

Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins & Meryl Streep to Receive 34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors America to Celebrate the Careers of Five Extraordinary Artists, Sunday, December 4, 2011 Gala will be broadcast on CBS on December 27, 2011 at 9:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced the selection of the individuals who will receive the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors. Recipients to be honored at the 34th annual national celebration of the arts are: singer Barbara Cook, singer and songwriter Neil Diamond, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins, and actress Meryl S...

Neil Diamond welcomes me to his plush suite in the famous Dorchester Hotel in London, asks for quiet for our interview then mockingly rolls his eyes as his PA yaks on to the Sunday Mail photographer. "You can see my word carries a lot of weight around here," says the superstar with a smile. Neil is counting down to his show at Glasgow's Hampden Park on July 2 and he's planning to make it a real celebration. When the singer, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March, strolls on stage at the national stadium, it will mark 50 years since he signed his first record deal. Back then, he was one half of Neil And Ja...

Neil Diamond talks about residency rumors at Caesars Palace By Robin Leach Neil Diamond walks the red carpet at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 22, 2011. Photo: Glenn Pinkerton/Las Vegas News Bureau For a year now, rumors -- with some substantial sources involved -- have floated that superstar singer Neil Diamond was considering a short residency run at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace, joining current headliners Celine Dion, Sir Elton John and Rod Stewart. Last night on the red carpet for the 2011 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena, where he closed the show with ''Sweet Caro...

Billboard Music Awards pack in the stars, yet surprise few Dan Steinberg/The Associated Press The Billboard Music Awards beamed a three-hour commercial for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority into millions of living rooms Sunday night. Presenters took the stage at the MGM Grand Garden dressed as Elvis, performers employed shimmying showgirls, and comedy bits were set in recognizable Venetian, Caesars Palace and Mandalay Bay attractions. The show capped a week of events that brought to town dozens of A-list musicians and fans from around the world who clamor to see them entering nightclubs. For all of the excite...

Neil Diamond Accepts Billboard Icon Award, Closes BBMAs with 'Sweet' Medley Neil Diamond Accepts Billboard Icon Award, Closes BBMAs with 'Sweet' Medley by Gary Graff, Detroit With spirited, audience singalong versions of "Sweet Caroline" and a choir-assisted "America," Neil Diamond closed the 2011 Billboard Music Awards Sunday night (May 22) by accepting his 2011 Billboard Icon Award. Seeming just as moved by but more coherent than his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in March, a leather-jacketed Diamond hushed the standing ovation from crowd at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Arena by saying, "I'm gonna get spoiled. ...

Neil Diamond uncut: The singer on dancing with Princess Diana and how he nearly played Travis Bickle By Lina Das 125 million records shifted (and two million more when you count next week's Mail on Sunday free Neil Diamond CD)...In his own words, how he's rocked all the way to 70 'The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do,' said Neil Diamond. With a career spanning more than 50 years and record sales of over 125 million worldwide, at 70 Neil Diamond should be enjoying his retirement, but his songs have...

If Prince William has his way, the first song the band will strike up as he leads his bride on to the dance floor for the evening wedding party at Buckingham Palace will be Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline. It was a hit more than ten years before he was born, but has always been close to William?s heart. His mother was a huge Neil Diamond fan. She went to his shows, and even danced cheek-to-cheek with him at a White House reception after he sang to her. Shall we dance: Like his mother Prince William is a fan of Neil Diamond (right) and if he has his way, the song Sweet Caroline will be played for the first dance at his Buckingham Pala...

Hurricanes aren't normally on our radar in this area. We don't see the effects first hand but their impact travels far and wide. Buck Lake resident Joni Pitzel got wind of 2008's Hurricane Ike victims through the Internet. Pitzel is a huge Neil Diamond fan. Through a message board frequented by Diamond fans, Pitzel heard the renowned singer was raising funds for Oak Island, Texas. The former fishing village had suffered extreme devastation at the hands of the hurricane. Diamond had been on tour and Houston, Texas was on his schedule just after Hurricane Ike had been through. He was taken on a tour to Oak Island and happened upon a ch...

AS WITH hearing "here's the bass solo", the news that an artist is doing an album of covers is generally a sign that fans can take a break for a while, safe in the knowledge that this will be a space filler - probably good but not essential. So after Neil Diamond revived respect and his career with the albums 12 Songs and Home Before Dark, two compilations of intense and personal songs stripped back to bone and muscle, you'd be forgiven for abandoning expectations on seeing his latest album, Dreams, was a collection of songs by contemporaries such as Bill Withers, Lennon and McCartney, Randy Newman and Leonard Cohen. However, althoug...