Neil Diamond on life as a solitary man - states the headline of an interesting and different piece appearing this weekend in UK Sunday Mail. Link here for this suggested reading.
Rick Rubin talks about his philosophy as a producer in a long piece on Rubin and Neil Diamond in the Toronto Star (link). "I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust," Rubin told the publication. "You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection. My goal is just to get out of the way and let the people I'm working with be their best."
Meanwhile, "On his second album with producer Rick Rubin, songwriter Neil Diamond seems to have found himself to a degree not evident on his other "comeback" records of the past 10 or 15 years." Reports the San Francisco Chronicle (link).
In the mood for some new video? Here is Neil Diamond performing the title track from his #1 hit CD, Home Before Dark, at a recent show recorded for the BBC. Video from You Tube.
Neil also taped a show for ITV's An Audience With Neil Diamond (for broadcast in the UK on Saturday May 31st). Review Ian Graham explains the show... "Neil was asked a variety of questions by celebrities, some of which may never make the final programme as this recording took exactly 2 hours and the show when aired will be 1 hour long including commercial breaks. But some questions were: Claire Balding (TV Sports presenter); “Why do fans send you frogs?” Neil told everyone about I Am.. I said.. and the frogs, and also that he had a section in his studio called “The Frogatarium” He also mentioned Jonathan Livingston Seagull and said he had a number of Seagull related gifts there also. He said as a result of these gifts he was trying to work on a song about a Rolls Royce! Read Ian's full report from the taping here.
Home Before Dark album chart positions worldwide: #1 in the UK, read about it from BBC News, and Ian Graham's message thread. #3 in Canada, #10 in Ireland, #11 in Australia (2nd week on Aust chart).
Further reading/misc Neil mentions: Neil Diamond’s Late Bloom on Billboard Chart, Neil Diamond gets first Number One Album,
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My husband and I went to see him last night in Columbus Ohio and it was pitiful and painful to watch. I knew from the first song that something was wrong, and I can’t believe he even went on. It’s horrible for people to pay what they did and take the time they took out of their day for him to just ignore that his voice was in bad shape. There was a man in front of my husband and I who paid 500.00 dollars for his ticket and they wanted to give him a choice of seats in the top 6 rows for Celine Dion concert ,what an insult. We were not really given any other options as of last night, but as your article stated they would call us today. My husband had seen him 17 times in the past 34 years and felt like this maybe his last time to see his favorite artist perform. I feel that he should either come back and give the performance of a life time or give us our money back
Posted by: Deb | Aug 26, 2008 at 08:06 AM