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.

* Neil Diamond's Band's Official Site

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.

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.

* 1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin " Buzz " Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission ( July 20 in North America ).

* The Probability Broach ( 1980 ), by L. Neil Smith, presents both utopian and dystopian views of present day North America, through alternative outcomes of the American War for Independence.

In L. Neil Smith's North American Confederacy series of novels, beginning with The Probability Broach, an alternate-history LaPorte is one of the major cities of North America, occupying roughly half the area of Larimer County, and with a population of over two million people ; whereas the city of Denver does not exist: In its place are the two small historic settlements of Saint Charles Town and Auraria.

At this point New York club DJ and Independent Music Consultant, Neil Kempfer-Stocker, told Bruce Findlay to forget the Polydor Inc ./ USA offer to release the band's records in North America and steered the band to A & M's Hernando Courtright, West Coast A & R.

Being Old In America by Robert Neil Butler

* 1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

* On November 16, 2011, Jones sang ' America the Beautiful ' at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and John Glenn.

' Grinding Stone ' was issued in North America on Neil Kempfer-Stocker's fledgling record label imprint Cosmos.

It was established in 1903 as a splinter from the Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) by James Connolly, Neil Maclean and SDF members impressed with the politics of the American socialist Daniel De Leon, a Marxist theoretician and leading figure of the Socialist Labor Party of America.

Neil Bonnett holds the distinction of being the winner of the first ever NASCAR race held outside of North America when he won the 1988 Goodyear NASCAR 500 at the A $ 54 million Calder Park Thunderdome in Melbourne, Australia ( at the time the newly opened Thunderdome was also the first NASCAR style speedway to be built outside of North America ).

* Neil Safier, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America, Univ.

Author of the book Fix the Pumps, historical look at soda fountains, Darcy S. O ' Neil claims that the " New York Egg Cream " is a variation of the original milkshake served at soda fountains throughout America in the late 19th century.

He appears on such television programs as Special Report with Bret Baier, Good Morning America, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King Live, Your World with Neil Cavuto and most recently the Glenn Beck Program and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

* Sheehan, Neil, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.

There were also guest appearances from Glen Campbell, Neil Young, Steve Miller, Scott Mathews, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell ( members of America ) and Flea.

Neil Sheehan wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam history and biography of Vann, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, in which Sheehan examines Vann's alleged career-stunting incident involving a morals charge during his service in West Germany and how this possibly affected Vann's future actions and resulting career path in Vietnam.

He was thus forced to tour the USA, Canada, Central and South America for six months to recoup losses, with Arpad Sandor, George Schick and Neil Chotem serving as his accompanists.

Although criticised for their similarity to Neil Young ( indeed, rumours circulated around Hollywood that Young had cut the track anonymously ), America scored five more US Top 10 singles over the next three years, including a second US # 1 with " Sister Golden Hair " in 1975.

The first song ever played on the station was " Eye of the Tiger " by Survivor followed by " America " by Neil Diamond.

* 2011: The Cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Rodney Atkins, Big Apple Circus, Mary J. Blige, Cobra Starship, Neil Diamond, Michael Feinstein, The Fresh Beat Band, Cee Lo Green, Avril Lavigne, Shelby Lynne, Mannheim Steamroller, China Anne McClain, Scotty McCreery, Ingrid Michaelson, Sesame Street cast and Muppets, Savannah Outen, Power Rangers Samurai, Daniel Radcliffe, Miss America 2011 Teresa Scanlan, Willard Scott, Sarah Smithson, Straight No Chaser, United States Naval Academy Glee Club, Johnny Weir, Zendaya and the Nickelodeon Queens

The gallery split with Debra Heimerdinger taking over operations in North America and Folberg's son Neil moving the " Vision Gallery " to Jerusalem.

Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg said ( of the Bristol Renaissance Faire ), " If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, whitebread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic.