McNeil is Diamond's manager and was the producer on the documentary Neil Diamond: Hot August Nights NYC.

Diamond's first recording contract was billed as " Neil and Jack ", an Everly Brothers – type duo comprising Diamond and high school friend Jack Packer *( Jack Parker ).

The album debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard chart, and has received generally positive reviews ; Earliwine describes the album as " inarguably Neil Diamond's best set of songs in a long, long time ".

" The Very Best of Neil Diamond ", a compilation CD of Diamond's 23 studio recordings from the Bang, UNI / MCA, & Columbia catalogs was released on December 6, 2011 on the Sony Legacy label.

Their cover of Neil Diamond's song " Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon " appeared prominently in the movie Pulp Fiction, and became a hit in 1994.

It featured a number of original songs, including " The Cobra Clutch ," as well as a cover of Neil Diamond's " America.

In addition, they resolved long-standing rights issues with the music: the original theatrical version of the film made prominent use of The Four Tops ' " It's the Same Old Song ", but it had to be replaced with Neil Diamond's " I'm a Believer " ( made famous by The Monkees ) for the U. S. home video edition.

He has received numerous entertainment industry awards and additional Grammy nominations including Best Engineered Recording for his work on the James Taylor album " JT " and Linda Ronstadt's " Simple Dreams ," a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year for Kim Carnes " Mistaken Identity ," a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year, an Emmy nomination for Best Engineered Recording of a TV Special for Neil Diamond's " Glad You're Here With Me Tonight ," as well as dozens of gold and platinum records.

Neil Diamond's Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show depicts a revival meeting.

Neil Diamond's " America " plays to the closing credits.

Other than drumming, he also sings back-up vocals and occasionally lead-vocals ( usually on cover songs, most of them humorous-the best examples are Prince's " Purple Rain ", Neil Diamond's " Cracklin ' Rosie ", Will Smith's song " Gettin ' Jiggy Wit It, and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd's " Bike ").

In 1979, Columbia Records turned over control of Neil Diamond's Bang master recordings to the artist himself, at the time one of the label's hottest stars, who has remixed and re-released them several times over the years.

The station began as Signal Radio which first broadcast at 6am, 5 September 1983, with DJ John Evington selecting Neil Diamond's " Beautiful Noise " as its first track.

Boston Red Sox fans at Fenway Park, for example, sing along to Neil Diamond's recording of " Sweet Caroline ".

The duo's intended follow-up to " Pac-Man Fever " was " E. T., I Love You ," which, despite permission from Steven Spielberg, was shelved by the label in favor of Neil Diamond's unauthorized " Heartlight ," which brought on a lawsuit.

In particular, he produced six complete albums for Neil Diamond, and the movie soundtrack albums for Diamond's The Jazz Singer and Little Shop of Horrors.

Neil Diamond's version was featured in the Coen brothers ' film Blood Simple in its US home video version, but was later replaced by the Four Tops ' " It's the Same Old Song ", which was the original choice for the film.

However, at the suggestion of Neil Diamond's drummer Dennis St. John, the brothers recorded and released the single " Let Your Love Flow ", written by Diamond's roadie Larry Williams.

His first big film was Neil Diamond's The Jazz Singer of 1980.

The show's intro song was Neil Diamond's " Sweet Caroline ", which the audience often sang along to, particularly in vocalising the three beats after the song's eponymous line and chanting " so good, so good " in response to " good times never seemed so good ".

According to the band they were only familiar with Tony Tribe's version ( apparently they didn't realise that the writer-credited simply as " Diamond "-was in fact Neil Diamond ), and their version featured a lighter, reggae-style flavor compared to Diamond's somber, acoustic ballad.

He also scored a chart record in 1970 with Neil Diamond's " Red Red Wine ," years before it was turned into a number one hit by UB40.

In tune with his many collaborations, an unlikely combination of Sweeney and Neil Diamond was proposed by seminal producer Rick Rubin in 2008 to follow-up Diamond's Rubin-produced 2005 album " 12 Songs.

The Last Waltz was advertised as The Band's " farewell concert appearance ", and the concert saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Bobby Charles, Neil Young and The Staple Singers.

Many highly regarded drummers endorse DW, including Joe Morello, Derek Roddy ( Serpents Rise ), Dave Grohl, Dominic Howard ( Muse ), Steve Jocz ( Sum 41 ), Brooks Wackerman ( Bad Religion ), Scott Travis ( Judas Priest ), Scott Phillips ( Creed and Alter Bridge ), Abe Laboriel Jr. ( Paul McCartney ), Neil Peart of Rush, Will Berman of MGMT, Dave Matthews Band's Carter Beauford, Zak Starkey, and Nickelback and Martone drummer Daniel Adair.

While on tour with Fotheringay, they enlisted drummer Neil Hopwood, and later in the year appeared on the Incredible String Band's Changing Horses album.

He adds to this statement in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, an analysis by Neil Gaiman.

In Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion it is pointed out that essentially the same idea was used by the English humourist Paul Jennings in an article Ware, Wye, Watford, published in the late 1950s.

* Official Neil Young site

An unused extended version of the poem is also excerpted in Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, in Appendix III.

* Official site for children's books with Neil Gaiman ( UK publisher )

* Official site for children's books with Neil Gaiman ( US publisher )

Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion is a book by Neil Gaiman about Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Davies served in a number of posts when Labour formed the Official Opposition after the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, including Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in Michael Foot's Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in Neil Kinnock's.

* Gary O ' Neil Official Website at officialplayerwebsites. com

* Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, a 1988 book by Neil Gaiman

* Official Documentation for Neil Young

* Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion by Neil Gaiman

* Neil Giraldo Fan Site

* Neil Hamburger's " Unofficial " Site

* Rodger Turner, Neil Walsh, and Wayne MacLaurin ( for SF Site )

* Rodger Turner, Neil Walsh, and Wayne MacLaurin ( for SF Site )