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    He sho is hip, ain’t he? Neil Diamond’s metamorphosis from a simple short-haired rock pop hitmaker into one of the heaviest dudes on the planet, a force of international magnitude, has been accomplished with all the grace to which true superstars are heir. Come what may, Neil did it his way.
    Just look at this album: A zero cool deluxe two-record set with pages inside and everything, the true document of Neil’s historic concert last summer under the stars of the best city in America, Los Angeles, which is a real stronghold of Diamond fandom. They’re hooked, they can’t help it, and no wonder when you look at the way the man carries himself and the trappings he swaddles his soul and product in.

    Attending the release of this sluice of ultimorgasmic sounds from Meister D. is some of the grooviest garnish this side of a Melanie presskit. Here on the very front cover is Neil in full flight, working it on out, and what is he doing? Pretending to jerk off, that’s what. He’s pantomiming whanging his clanger, and from the look on his face I’d say he’s about to shoot off, and the only bogus part is that he’d like everybody out there to think it’s 13 inches long. It’s truly a pic to post in your den or rec room for years to come, no matter what some o’ them psychedelic shmucks with their Hawkwind nightshade garlands might think; you don’t even need a black light, and it’s great to spill beer on or throw your girlfriend up against in the party’s latter leagues.

    The music on Hot August Night is a fine presentation of the entire spectrum of the Diamond oeuvre, from “Solitary Man” to “Song Sung Blue.” It’s great, pretentious, goofy pop. Neil has always had a marvelously evocative, hymn-like quality, but it’s pure Hollywood reverence, and he really should get a gig writing soundtracks. Which is no putdown. There’s always a place for good corn and good pomp too. This set opens with a mighty orchestral flourish fit to put both Elvis and David Bowie to shame. And when it comes to hamming it up, Neil’s one of the few who can actually outdo Elvis, as in the introduction to “Morningside”: “This is a dream … a dream about an old man who dies alone … and leaves a gift behind….”
    The hymn-like feeling reaches a peak on sides three and four, what with such celebrations of the common man’s innate nobility as “Canta Libre” and “I Am … I Said,” and by the time you reach “Brother Love”‘s grand finale, you’re a goner: He sounds just like Eric Burdon playing Elmer Gantry, the melodrama is irresistible, and the only thing he could do to top this would be to collaborate with James Michener and Frank Capra on a Cinerama rock opera about the second coming of Thomas Jefferson as a wandering Jesus Freak minstrel who sews this wicked land up at the seams and brings the children home and their parents into the street to dance. Starring none other.

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  6. Intially Diamond catapults the listener musically head long into some of his more better known songs at break neck speed, then caresses the audience slowly with superb renditions of his tunes (Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon & The Grass Wont Play etc, etc)- and a true seduction of the senses it really is. Side 4 shows us all how easy it is to be baptised into the lyrical world of Diamond as he ‘preaches’ no, almost commands us to indulge with him as Brother Love and Holly Holy take their final hold on all of us – we do remain captured and we do surrender. This album is surely the corner stone of Diamond’s ability to completely entertain the audience. Truly a brilliant album!

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  7. The above album as got to be the best live album ever and it shows neil diamond at is greatest.Even now it sends shivers down my spine and the renidetion of i am i said is spell bounding just the greatest album ever by anyone .After hearing hot august night for me anyway you can keep elvis sinatra sammy davis and who ever comes to mind with respect they were all great proformers .But no one and i do mean no one comes close to neil diamond quite simpley diamond is the greatest live proformer ever and this album proves it with out dout. frank mc birmingham england

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  8. truly awesome collection, Neil at his best, in total control of his audience without the really cheesy antics of later years, the growling voice is superb, and Holly Holy is the most complete 6 minuites, Shilo, ATGWPNM, done to soon, soolaimon/Bltss…well I could go on and on but what else needs saying

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    Done Too Soon…A little something about each person.
    Posted by OhioRoger (profile) 2008-11-08 08:17:09.0
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    There were a few names in this song I had never heard of, nor had I ever taken the time to learn about them (until now). Here is some info on each person listed in the song…

    Jesus of Nazareth (7-2 BC/BCE–26-36 AD/CE),[2][3] also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the incarnation of God. Islam considers Jesus a prophet, and he is an important figure in certain other religions.

    Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Seventeen years after her death, she was portrayed on stage and film by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (IPA: [ˈvɔlfgaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full name Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His more than 600 compositions include works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music, and he is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

    Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957)[1][2] was an American actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked “Bogie” the greatest male star.

    Genghis Khan (pronounced /ˈdʒɛŋgɪs ˈkaːn/ or /ˈgɛŋgɪs ˈkaːn/[1]; Mongolian: j3;l0;l5;k5;l0;l9; j1;k2;k2;l5; (help·info), Chinggis Khaan, IPA: [ʧiŋgɪs χaːŋ], Činggis Qaɣan; c. 1162[2]-1227), born Temüjin (help·info) (meaning “ironworker”[3]), was the Mongol founder, Khan (ruler) and posthumously declared Khagan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history.
    He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed “Genghis Khan”, he started the Mongol invasions and raids of Kara-Khitan Khanate, Caucasus, Khwarezmid Empire, Western Xia and Jin Dynasty. During his life, the Mongol Empire eventually occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia.

    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946),[1] better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best remembered today for the science fiction novels he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as “The Father of Science Fiction”.[2]
    He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist; his later works becoming increasingly political and didactic. His later novels were more realistic; they covered lower middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the ‘New Woman’ and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica). He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary.

    Hồ Chí Minh listen (help·info) (name pronounced [hò̤ tɕǐmɪ̄ɲ]) (May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Communist, Marxist-Leninist Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became prime minister (1946-1955) and president (1946-1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietn

    Gunga Din was published in 1892 in the first series of Kipling’s Barrack-Room Ballads. This poem about a native water carrier for a British regiment in India is a rhyming narrative from the point of view of a British soldier whose life is saved by the water carrier. Many who condemn Kipling are really criticizing imperialism. Such a superficial perusal of this poem leaves the reader shy of understanding that one of the reasons Gunga Din is a continual classic is it tells the story of the friendship between an imperial trooper and his courageous regimental tank boy.

    Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher.
    Luce, known to his friends as “Father Time,” was born in Penglai City, China, the son of Elizabeth Middleton (née Root) and Henry Winters Luce, who was a Presbyterian missionary. He was educated in various boarding schools in China and England. At 10, he was sent to the British China Inland Mission Chefoo School, a boarding school at Yantai on the Shandong coast and at 14, he traveled to Europe alone. He first arrived in the U.S. at the age of 15 to attend the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. Luce split his time between waiting tables after school and editing for the Hotchkiss Literary Monthly, holding the position of editor-in-chief. He later graduated from Yale University in 1920, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.
    Luce launched the business magazine Fortune in February 1930 and founded the pictorial Life magazine in 1936, and launched House & Home in 1952 and Sports Illustrated in 1954. He also produced The March of Time for radio and cinema. By the mid 1960s, Time Inc. was the largest and most prestigious magazine publisher in the world. (Dwight Macdonald, a somewhat reluctant employee at Fortune during the 1930s, referred to him as “Il Luce”.)

    John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next morning from a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, becoming the first American president to be assassinated.
    Booth, and a group of co-conspirators whom he led, planned to kill Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a desperate bid to help the tottering Confederacy’s cause. Although Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over since Confederate General Joseph Johnston’s army was still fighting the Union Army under General William Tecumseh Sherman. Of the conspirators, only Booth was successful in carrying out his part of the plot.

    Alexander King (1899-1965), born Alexander Koenig, was an illustrator and author based in the United States. A frequent guest on the Tonight Show hosted by Jack Paar, wherein he seemed to have an endless trove of amusing anecdotes and stories, he was also the author of several books, including May This House Be Safe from Tigers, Mine Enemy Grows Older, (an account of his addiction to morphine, and his recovery), and I Should Have Kissed Her More, Is There Life After Birth. He illustrated and/or translated numerous editions of classics in the early 20th century as well as a book by Peter Altenberg released as Alexander King Presents Peter Altenberg’s Evocations of Love (a collection of sweet memories of the heart from another place and time in history). King’s easy conversational recollections of the first part of the 20th century are informational and often hilariously funny. His accounts include many famous names most will recognise.

    Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor and innovator who is widely credited with the invention of the telephone.
    Many other inventions marked Bell’s later life including groundbreaking work in hydrofoils and aeronautics. In 1888, Alexander Graham Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.[5]

    Sri Ramakrishna, who was born in 1836 and passed away in 1886, represents the very core of the spiritual realizations of the seers and sages of India. His whole life was literally an uninterrupted contemplation of God. He reached a depth of God-consciousness that transcends all time and place and has a universal appeal. Seekers of God of all religions feel irresistibly drawn to his life and teachings. Sri Ramakrishna, as a silent force, influences the spiritual thought currents of our time. He is a figure of recent history and his life and teachings have not yet been obscured by loving legends and doubtful myths. Through his God-intoxicated life Sri Ramakrishna proved that the revelation of God takes place at all times and that God-realization is not the monopoly of any particular age, country, or people. In him, deepest spirituality and broadest catholicity stood side by side. The God-man of nineteenth-century India did not found any cult, nor did he show a new path to salvation. His message was his God-consciousness. When God-consciousness falls short, traditions become dogmatic and oppressive and religious teachings lose their transforming power. At a time when the very foundation of religion, faith in God, was crumbling under the relentless blows of materialism and skepticism, Sri Ramakrishna, through his burning spiritual realizations, demonstrated beyond doubt the reality of God and the validity of the time-honored teachings of all the prophets and saviors of the past, and thus restored the falling edifice of religion on a secure foundation. Drawn by the magnetism of Sri Ramakrishna’s divine personality, people flocked to him from far and near — men and women, young and old, philosophers and theologians, philanthropists and humanists, atheists and agnostics, Hindus and Brahmos, Christians and Muslims, seekers of truth of all races, creeds and castes. His small room in the Dakshineswar temple garden on the outskirts of the city of Calcutta became a veritable parliament of religions. Everyone who came to him felt uplifted by his profound God-consciousness, boundless love, and universal outlook. Each seeker saw in him the highest manifestation of his own ideal. By coming near him the impure became pure, the pure became purer, and the sinner was transformed into a saint. The greatest contribution of Sri Ramakrishna to the modern world is his message of the harmony of religions. To Sri Ramakrishna all religions are the revelation of God in His diverse aspects to satisfy the manifold demands of human minds. Like different photographs of a building taken from different angles, different religions give us the pictures of one truth from different standpoints. They are not contradictory but complementary. Sri Ramakrishna faithfully practiced the spiritual disciplines of different religions and came to the realization that all of them lead to the same goal. Thus he declared, “As many faiths, so many paths.” The paths vary, but the goal remains the same. Harmony of religions is not uniformity; it is unity in diversity. It is not a fusion of religions, but a fellowship of religions based on their common goal — communion with God. This harmony is to be realized by deepening our individual God-consciousness. In the present-day world, threatened by nuclear war and torn by religious intolerance, Sri Ramakrishna’s message of harmony gives us hope and shows the way. May his life and teachings ever inspire us.

    Anna McNeill Whistler posed for the painting while living in London with her son. Several unverifiable stories surround the making of the painting itself; one is that Anna Whistler acted as a replacement for another model who couldn’t make the appointment. Another is that Whistler originally envisioned painting the model standing up, but that his mother was too uncomfortable to pose standing for an extended period.
    The work was shown at the 104th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Art in London (1872), but first came within a hair’s breadth of rejection by the Academy. This episode worsened the rift between Whistler and the British art world; Arrangement would be the last painting he would submit for the Academy’s approval.

    Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was an African anti-colonial leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped to win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only ten weeks later, Lumumba’s government was deposed in coup during the Congo Crisis. He was subsequently imprisoned and murdered in controversial circumstances.

    Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), better known as Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, “You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love,” and the legend surrounding his early death.
    On September 2, 1934, Columbo was shot under peculiar circumstances by his longtime friend, photographer Lansing Brown. Columbo was visiting him at the studio one day. In lighting a cigarette, Brown lit the match by striking it against the wooden stock of an antique French dueling pistol. The flame set off a long-forgotten charge in the gun, and a lead pistol ball was fired. The pistol ball ricocheted off a nearby table and hit Columbo in the left eye, killing him almost instantly. Columbo’s death was ruled an accident, and Brown exonerated from blame. His funeral mass was attended by numerous Hollywood luminaries, including Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard.

    Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818-March 14, 1883) was a German[1] philosopher, political economist, historian, sociologist, humanist, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism.

    Leonard Marx, known as Chico, (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was one of the Marx Brothers.[1]
    He was originally nicknamed Chicko due to his reputation as a ladies man, or a “chicken chaser” in the popular slang of the day. A typesetter accidentally dropped the “k” in his name and it became Chico. It was still pronounced [tʃɪkoʊ] although those who were unaware of its origin tended to pronounce it [ʃiːkoʊ]. Radio recordings from the 1940s exist where announcers and fellow actors mispronounce the nickname, but Chico apparently felt it was unnecessary to correct them. As late as the 1950s, even Groucho used the wrong pronunciation for comedic effect. A guest on You Bet Your Life told the quizmaster she came from Chico, California and Groucho responded that he had a brother named “Cheek-oh.” (Chico can sometimes be spotted in cutaways to the studio audience, out of character and costume.)

    Albert Camus (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy]) (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was an Algerian-born French author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label. On the other hand, as he wrote in his essay The Rebel, his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism. On the subject of his belief or not in God, he writes in the third volume of his notebooks: “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”

    Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[

    Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910)[1] was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner.[2][3] He is also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment.[1] Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.[4][5]

    Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish: –3;-0;*3;-1;”0;-6;-0;*7;*9;-1;, Russian: j4;l6;l3;l6;l4;-h0;l3;k7;l1;m3;k7;l4;; March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916) was the pen name of Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich, the popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including novels, short stories, and plays. He did much to promote Yiddish writers, and was the first to pen children’s literature in Yiddish.
    His work has been widely translated. The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, loosely based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories about his character Tevye the Milkman, was the first commercially successful English-language play about Eastern European Jewish life.

    Caryl Whittier Chessman (May 27, 1921 – May 2, 1960) was a convicted robber and rapist who gained fame as a Death Row inmate in California. Chessman’s case attracted world-wide attention, and as a result he became a cause célèbre for the movement to ban capital punishment.

    Alan Freed (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965), also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American Rhythm and Blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of Rock and Roll. Many of the top African-American performers of the first generation of rock and roll (such as Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry) salute Alan Freed for his pioneering attitude in breaking down racial barriers among the youth of 1950s America. His career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry in the early 1960s.

    Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an Academy Award-winning American comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname “The Great Stone Face” [1](referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne story about the “Old Man of the Mountain”).[2] He has also been called “The Michelangelo of Silent Comedy”.
    Keaton’s career as a performer and director is widely considered to be among the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. He was recognized as the seventh greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.[3]

    Hope I didn’t forget any

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