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"You moved in slow degrees/A sudden memory/You're a Leonard Cohen song" - Better Than Ezra, "Under You" "But I was caught, like a fleeting thought / Stuck inside Leonard Cohen's mind" - Mercury Rev, "A Drop In Time" "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld / So I can sigh eternally" - Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea" It's almost unbelievable now to think that we almost never heard Leonard Cohen , the singer. A well-regarded poet from the late [...]

Neil Diamond - Lady Oh Off of 1976's Robbie Robertson-produced Beautiful Noise . This with Robbie Robertson on guitar, Bob James with the string and horn arrangements.

• Neil Diamond - Lady Oh

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Happy 71st bdgay to the NEIL DIAMOND . The American he-singer who became the oldest artist to have a US number one, in 2008, was born this way January 24 1941.

A cheap way to get Diamond's biggest hits, spanning his entire career.

REPOST from 2008 (with slight updating): - I remember when the Apollo 8 astronauts went into space, right before Christmas in 1968. That was a rough year - Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was a bloody stain on the other side of the world. Violence boiled over into the streets. As Christmas week opened, three men in a little metal capsule hurtled through space toward the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first humans to reach the orbit of another planetary body. As they streaked across the dark side of the [...]

REPOST from 2008 (with slight updating): - I remember when the Apollo 8 astronauts went into space, right before Christmas in 1968. That was a rough year - Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was a bloody stain on the other side of the world. Violence boiled over into the streets. As Christmas week opened, three men in a little metal capsule hurtled through space toward the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first humans to reach the orbit of another planetary body. As they streaked across the dark side of the [...]

By some fluke, Neil Diamond – the once cheese-tatstic singer that pretty much defined the 70's, sequenced shirt and all – has managed to not only remain relevant more than four decades after his first record, but has gotten everyone from housewives to hipsters to look beyond the sideburns and Vegas-ready stage show and see [...]

This greatest hits collection is Neil Diamond's 37th since bursting onto the scene in 1966. You heard me, 37th. How many times can you release "Sweet Caroline?" Apparently, at least 37 times. So this begs the question...do we really need The Very Best of Neil Diamond ? The answer is a definitive yes! I remember back in 1992 buying "The Greatest Hits: 1966-19923 and being extremely disappointed because it included awful live versions done in the 80s and early 90s including a version of "Red Red Wine" where Diamond actually says "UB40 We're Number One." Dreadful. This remastered [...]

Yeah, that's Nancy Reagan. No, this is not Photoshopped. Editor's Note: More recycling of past blog posts, gotta conserve this Christmas! How many shopping days left until Christmas? Not enough, that's for sure. The holiday season isn't about shopping anyway, it's about hanging around with people you like and, in the case of most of our families, a few people you don't like. It's about giving but it isn't about begging. And it's not about the TV commentators who are so afraid white Jesus isn't represented enough in Christmas celebrations. [...]

Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight's notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): The Black Keys The duo is supporting brand new album El Camino. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Neil Diamond The man with 37 top-40 hits is promoting his [...]

An oddly sequenced collection of Diamond's diamonds As anyone familiar with Neil Diamond's career will know, he's had more hits that could fit onto a single CD. But drawing across his stints on Bang, Uni, Capitol (for which he recorded the soundtrack to The Jazz Singer ) and Columbia, this twenty-three track set shows Diamond's maturation from Brill Building songwriter to hit-making singer to worldwide superstar to reinvented elder statesman. Of course, given the set's non-chronological programming, you'll only hear the actual arc of his artistic development if you [...]

Neil Diamond is 2nd from left... The Kennedy Center Honors are lifetime achievement awards for performing artists and an annual love-in for the entertainment world. It's also a moment for the staid Washington D.C. social scene to bask in the glow of non-political superstars. This year's honorees, celebrated Sunday night (12/4), were Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins and Meryl Streep . The Honors, in their 34th year, were hosted by JFK daughter Caroline Kennedy (after many years with Walter Cronkite at the helm). It's one [...]

by BBG Neil Diamond at Acheron, er, MSG ( more by Eric Townsend ) True story. I was thumbing through a distro at a recent crust/hardcore show and somewhere in between a copy of an Assault 7" on HG Fact and a Grudges tape, I encountered a copy of The Jazz Singer . I almost bought it out of principle. I'm guessing that appearance of Neil Diamond [...]

In an age of the disposable pop star, and blog buzz bands that seem to fizzle out as quickly as they rise to prominence, The Chieftains are the rare model of both consistency and longevity. The traditional Irish folk act, who have been putting out albums since the early 1906s, will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2012 with a new studio album and a lengthy world tour. On February 21, the band will release Voice Of Ages , which will see the legendary act collaborating with an impressive roster of musicians from the worlds of [...]

Here's a list of the concerts announced for Toronto this week: Q107 Jingle Ball f. Big Sugar , Dec 10 Paper Lions , El Mocambo, Dec 10 Chris Garneau , Bathurst St Theatre, Dec 27 Smith Westerns , Horseshoe Tavern, Jan 27 Collie Buddz , Sound Academy, Jan 29 Charles Bradley , Lee's Palace, Feb 11 Grimes , Horseshoe Tavern, Mar 19 Neil Diamond [...]

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings proudly announce the release of The Very Best of Neil Diamond - The Original Studio Recordings on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. The new long-awaited definitive single disc compilation of 23 best-loved hits and signature tracks from America's quintessential singer-songwriter is the first Neil Diamond collection to draw from the artist's complete studio discography. The Very Best of Neil Diamond - The Original Studio Records includes his first pop chartings as a writer/performer for Bang Records in [...]

McKinley High finally opens their production of 'West Side Story' and we get a bevy of songs from the classic musical, plus one number originally by Billy Joel for some reason.

Ólöf Arnalds' next release will be an EP of covers, where the Icelandic singer/songwriter rephrases songs by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Arthur Russell, Neil Diamond and more using her spare, acoustic arrangements. Hear a cover of Neil Diamond's " Solitary Man " as well as a cover of Bruce Springsteen's " I'm On Fire " (with a bonus live video) after the jump. Read More...

• Ólöf Arnalds - Solitary Man
• Ólöf Arnalds - With Tomorrow / I'm On Fire