[스크랩] play me - Neil Diamond

 

She was morning  And I was night time
I one day woke up To find her lying
Beside my bed I softly said
"Come take me"

For I've been lonely  In need of someone
As though I'd done  Someone wrong somewhere
I don't know where  Come lately

- You are the sun I am the moon
- You are the words I am the tune ....Play me

Song ... she sang to me  Song... she brang to me
Words ... that rang in me  Rhyme that sprang from me
Warmed .. the night  And what was right  Became me

 - R

And so it was  That I came to travel
Upon a road  That was thorned and narrow
Another place  Another grace  Would save me

 - R

The handprints of Neil Diamond in front of The Great Movie Ride

at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941),an American singer-songwriter,

was born in Boston, to a Jewish family descended from Russian and Polish immigrants.
His father was a dry-goods merchant. Diamond grew up in several homes in Brooklyn,
attending Erasmus Hall and Abraham Lincoln High Schools.
At Erasmus Hall, he took part in SING! and sang in the school choir with Barbra Streisand.
Neil Diamond attended Surprise Lake Camp as a youth.

At Lincoln, the school from which he received his high school diploma,
he was a member of the fencing team. He later attended NYU on a fencing scholarship,
specializing in épée, and throughout his life, he maintained his swordsmanship skills to
such a degree that he continued to warm up with fencing exercises before his concerts.
 
In a live interview with TV talk show host Larry King, Diamond explained his decision
to study medicine by pointing out: "I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study.
And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer.
And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go
and try and discover the cure for cancer."

However, during his senior year in NYU, a music publishing company made him an offer
he could not refuse: an offer to write songs for $50 a week. This started him on the road to stardom.

2007

Diamond, whose hits include Sweet Caroline, Song Sung Blue,

I'm a Believer and Cherry Cherry.

"I don't think they'd want to walk around in those outfits."
Diamond, whose first hit was Cherry Cherry in 1966,  

Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters.
As a successful pop music performer, Diamond scored a number of hits worldwide
in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

According to David Wild, common themes in Diamond's songs are
"a deep sense of isolation and an equal desire for connection.
A yearning for home - and at the same time, the allure of greater freedom. T

he good, the bad and the ugly about a crazy little thing called love."

As of 2001 Diamond has 115 million records sold worldwide, including 48 million records in the U.S.
In terms of Billboard chart success, he is the third most successful Adult Contemporary
artist ever, ranking behind only Barbra Streisand and Elton John.

Though his record sales declined somewhat after the 1980s,
 Diamond continues to tour successfully, and maintains a very loyal following.
Diamond's songs have been recorded by a vast array of performers from many different musical genres.

Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984,

and in 2000 received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award.

Neil Diamond poses with his Australian partner

Rae Farley after a press conference in Sydney. 

  

* "It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier."

    * "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."
    * "Because my musical training has been limited,
        I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
    * "I've always thought of music as something which gives the words
       their flight and their wings and the music often comes first,
       although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea
       that I want to write and the lyric will come first."

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