Diamond's Bang recordings were produced by legendary Brill Building songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, both of whom can be heard singing background on many of the tracks.

Diamond's widow claims that these characters were based on her husband's relationship with Wilder.

Walliams and Diamond fell out after Walliams appeared as a guest on Diamond's Paramount show " Dom ' n ' Kirk's Night O Plenty "-after which Diamond said that Walliams and co-Little Britain star Matt Lucas were " complete arseholes ".

Jared Diamond's thesis that Easter Island society collapsed in isolation entirely due to environmental damage is contested by some ethnographers and archaeologists who argue that the introduction of diseases carried by European colonizers and slave raiding, which devastated the population in the 19th century, had a much greater social impact than environmental decline and that introduced animals, first rats and then sheep, were greatly responsible for the island's loss of native flora which came closest to deforestation as late as 1930 – 1960.

In 2003, part of The Diamond's roof was destroyed by Hurricane Isabel, and in 2004 a piece of a concrete beam fell on the stands below, though no fans were injured.

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.

These members were chosen due to their proximity of Diamond's new residence in the United States.

A blue diamond with the same shape, size, and color as the Hope Diamond was recorded by John Francillon in the possession of the London diamond merchant Daniel Eliason in September 1812, the earliest point when the history of the Hope Diamond can be definitively fixed, although a second less definitive report suggests that the Hope Diamond's " authentic history " can only be traced back to 1830.

The Queen, along with her three legitimate children, cannot stand for this and poisons the King and buries Diamond's mother alive in a violent coup.

She has her own agenda and toys with Diamond's feelings for Lazuli and his ambition to rule the twelve Mines, as well as manipulating both Lapis and Ivory.

He is most likely not a prince since he appears to look like Diamond's mother and he may be her son by an unnamed husband or a lover.

: A mannish woman clad in armor and with a strange brand upon her forehead, she is one of Diamond's magical servants.

The illegitimate son of the King of Neige, he became heir to the throne when his father makes him crown prince in order to please Diamond's mother, a favored concubine.

The Gunny was a practicing Episcopalian as noted in the notes of journalist Marc Parrott who was present at Gunny Diamond's Episcopalian funeral services.

But the Sino-Japanese controversy, in Diamond's opinion, was " not much of a war ," and on June 10, 1933, he returned to the United States, disembarking from the USS Henderson ( AP-1 ) at Mare Island, California.

Journalist Marc Parrott notes that Diamond's funeral service was Episcopalian.

Mercyful Fate was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1981 from the remaining members of Hank Shermann's band Brats and King Diamond's band Black Rose.

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 ).

" Sweet Caroline " was Diamond's first major hit after his slump.

The August 24 performance was recorded and released as the live double album Hot August Night ( the title being the opening words of Diamond's song " Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show ").

Also, Diamond's final concert of his 1976 Australian Tour ( The " Thank You Australia " Concert ) was broadcast to 36 television outlets nationwide on March 6.

In February 1979, the uptempo " Forever in Blue Jeans ", co-written with his guitarist, Richard Bennett, was released as a single from You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Diamond's album from the previous year.

" 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.

Diamond's Piano Sonata No. 1 was inspired by Tureck's playing.

It was Jared Diamond's third nomination for the prize, having won twice previously.

The New York Times also suggested that Diamond's career troubles may have also been caused by his " difficult personality ... he said in the 1990 interview, " I was a highly emotional young man, very honest in my behavior, and I would say things in public that would cause a scene between me and, for instance, a conductor ".

Diamond's most memorable role was that of the nerdy Samuel " Screech " Powers on the television show Saved by the Bell, a role he played for close to thirteen years from its beginning as Good Morning, Miss Bliss ( 1988 – 89 ) through its final incarnation, Saved by the Bell: The New Class ( 1994 – 2000 ).

Diamond's autobiography, ' Celtic & Me: Confessions From The Jungle ', was published in the UK by Black & White Publishing in August 2010.

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.

Diamond no longer provides support for the Rio, and the last version of Microsoft Windows to work with Diamond's Rio software was Windows 98.

The last piece of the company was effectively sold in late 2003, when Best Data acquired the Diamond's Supra modem business along with rights to the Diamond Multimedia name for use in a new video card division.

It was later released on December 9, 1972 as a part of Diamond's Hot August Night album.

The third version was a remix found only on the initial CD release of Diamond's His 12 Greatest Hits.

Pegg appeared on Diamond's Xfm Scotland Breakfast Show as a guest while promoting Hot Fuzz and revealed that seeing Diamond do stand-up comedy at Bristol University inspired him to do it as a career.

Diamond's very high scratch resistance and thermal conductivity, combined with a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than Pyrex glass, a coefficient of friction close to that of Teflon ( Polytetrafluoroethylene ) and strong lipophilicity would make it a nearly ideal non-stick coating for cookware if large substrate areas could be coated economically.

For free-living organisms, diversity ecology features many strong conceptual frameworks including Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson's theory of island biogeography, Jared Diamond's assembly rules and, more recently, null models such as Stephen Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography.

At some point, he also had the Hope Diamond's bottom facet slightly recut to increase its brilliance.

Although Diamond's work does make connections between environmental and climatic conditions and societal development, it is published with the stated intention of disproving racist and eurocentric theories of development.

The prologue opens with an account of Diamond's conversation with Yali, a New Guinean politician.

Diamond's new venture continued the tradition of Mercyful Fate, but with a more progressive, conceptual twist to it.

Hot August Night demonstrates Diamond's skills as a performer and showman, as he reinvigorated his back catalogue of hits with new energy.

Diamond's record sales slumped somewhat in the 1980s and 1990s, his last single to make the Billboard's Pop Singles chart coming in 1986.

That same year, UB40's reggae interpretation of Diamond's ballad Red Red Wine would top the Billboard's Pop Singles chart and, like the Monkees ' version of " I'm a Believer ", become better known than Diamond's original version.

The 1990s and 2000s saw a resurgence in Diamond's popularity.

Urge Overkill recorded a version of Diamond's " Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon " for Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, released in 1994.

Smash Mouth covered Diamond's " I'm a Believer " for their 2001 self-titled album.