Neil Diamond is back by Romana Schlesingerova

One of the most successful pop music performer of all times, singer with over 48 million records sold and a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame is coming back from the grave. After his recent fiasco with the Sony BMG that pulled his disc from retail, his return is even more spectacular. He finally revealed the name of his secret inspiration for the hit "Sweet Caroline" last week. It was no else than Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who caught his eye in one news magazine in the time when he was just a young greener "It was a picture of a little girl dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony," Diamond recalled. Born in New York, growing up in Brooklyn, Diamond has been constantly in the contact with the music world as much as he dropped his medicine scholarship and found his way to the career that suited him the best. From the unknown songwriter he managed to fame his name in 1960s and jumped up on every music chart in the country as well as outside of the U.S. Diamond's last record named "12 Songs" released in December 2005 brought the singer back to his old fellow producer Rick Rubin. "Stripped of kitsch, he sighs and gently roars to the sound of his own acoustic guitar. Diamond's talent for making songs that can break your heart or make you punch the air in glee has been lost through unfashionable familiarity." (The Guardian, February 2006) As Neil Diamond once said himself: "My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is."

by Romana Schlesingerova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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