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The Ghost of Neil Diamond

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Dark comedy. A washed up folk legend tries his hand as a Neil Diamond impersonator in the Far East and suffers an annihilation of identity. 'The best novel I've read in years. Storytelling, architecture, poetry and painting - a few rare novels excel in all four categories. This is one such book' dissident books, New York 'We have a real corker of a tale on our hands. It's a special find, a story with a uniqueness' bookmunch, uk 'A dark comedy stemming from the howling despair of a man who is out of his element in ever way' harmlessfraud.com dublin, ireland 'A rare find. A totally original and fascinating novel that holds your interest from beginning to end' alternativereel.com Florida… (mer)
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Neil Diamond - Song Song Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighSddnnaPE

Quick Facts - Neil Leslie Diamond

ALSO LISTED IN
Lyricists & Songwriters
ALSO KNOWN AS
Neil Leslie Diamond


FAMOUS AS
Singer-songwriter
NATIONALITY
American Famous American Men
RELIGION
Jewish
BORN ON
24 January 1941 AD
BIRTHDAY
24th January Famous 24th January Birthdays
AGE
75 Years
SUN SIGN
Aquarius Aquarius Men
BORN IN
Brooklyn
FATHER
Kieve Diamond
MOTHER
Rose
SPOUSES
Katie McNeil, Marcia Murphey, Jayne Posner,
EDUCATION
Erasmus Hall High School
Brooklyn
NY
New York University (dropout)


AWARDS

Neil Diamond - Song Song Blue
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1973 - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
2000 - Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award

Childhood & Early Life


• Neil Leslie Diamond was born on January 24, 1941 to Rose and Akeeba ‘Kieve’ Diamond, a Jewish couple, in Brooklyn, New York.
• He attended Abraham Lincoln High School, where he received his high school diploma. During his school years that he was a part of the fencing team. He was later offered a fencing scholarship to New York University, where he specialized in saber.
• During his time at the university, he was a member of 1960 NCAA men’s championship team. In his senior year at the university, a music publishing company made him an offer of $50 per week to write songs, which he took up.
Career


• In 1962, he signed his first recording contract as ‘Neil and Jack’, with his high-school friend, Jack Parker. The duo recorded two singles ‘You Are My Love At Last’ b/w ‘What Will I Do’ and ‘I’m Afraid’ b/w ‘Till You’ve Tried Love’; both of which, became unsuccessful.
• In 1962 itself, he signed a solo contract with Columbia Records. After releasing a couple of singles under the record label, Columbia dropped him from the label because he was not very successful with singles like ‘Clown Town’. He then went back to writing songs.
• In 1965, he had his first success as a songwriter with the song, ‘Sunday and Me’, which he wrote for ‘Jay and the Americans’. A string of other successful singles followed including, ‘I’m a Believer’ and ‘A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You’. The next year, he signed a record deal with ‘Bang Records’.
• His first hit was ‘Solitary Man’. He later followed this hit with a number of singles such as ‘Cherry, Cherry’, ‘Kentucky Woman’ and ‘Do It’. Despite working with ‘Bang Records’, he felt that he had not yet reached his maximum potential. Thus, in 1968, he signed a record deal with MCA Records.
• In 1970, he moved to Los Angeles and delivered hits like ‘Cracklin’ Rosie’, ‘Song Sung Blue’ and ‘Sweet Caroline’, which all rose to the top of music charts. The next year, he came up with one of the best hits of his career, ‘I Am… I Said’, which took nearly 4 months to complete.
• 1972 was an extremely busy year for the singer-songwriter as he performed in 10 full-house concerts at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. All of his performances were compiled and released the same year in a live double album titled, ‘Hot August Night’. He also performed at the Winter Garden Theatre the same year.
• He switched back to Columbia Records once again in 1973 after they offered to give him a million dollars in advance for each of his albums. His first album received positive reviews and peaked in the top positions on charts, despite being used as a soundtrack for a flop film.
• In 1976, Diamond released ‘Beautiful Noise’, which was his tenth studio album overall. He performed the song ‘Dry Your Eyes’ with ‘The Band’ on their sendoff show. This album became a critical hit because it showcased his production style and compositional variety. The same year, he performed at the ‘Theater for Performing Arts’ which gathered sold-out crowds.
• He released ‘I’m Glad You’re Here With Me Tonight’ in 1977. Two years later, he released his last album for the decade titled, ‘September Morn’, which featured hits like, ‘I’m a Believer’ and ‘Dancing in the Street’.
• He was cast in the American drama film, ‘The Jazz Singer’ alongside Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in the film. Some of the singles in the movie’s soundtrack such as, ‘Love on the Rocks’ and ‘America’, became hits.
• In the 1980s, his record sales collapsed with the last single making the Billboard charts in 1986.
• From 1993 to 1998, there was a resurgence in his popularity when he released a number of albums under Columbia Records including, ‘Up on the Roof: Songs from the Brill Building’, ‘The Christmas Album 2, ‘Tennessee Moon’ and ‘The Movie Album: As Time Goes By’.
• In the new millennium, Diamond continued to record and tour. His ‘12 Songs’, which released in 2005, is regarded as one of his finest albums till date. Other albums that followed were ‘The Best of Neil Diamond’ and ‘Classic-The Universal Masters Collection’.
• ‘Home Before Dark’, one of his albums released in 2008, was featured at the top of the charts in New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States and became one of his greatest selling albums till date. The next year, he released another hit album, ‘A Chery Cherry Christmas’.
• His most recent albums from 2009 to 2011 include, ‘Dreams’ and other compilation albums including ‘The Essential Neil Diamond’, ‘Icon’, ‘The Bang Years’ and ‘The Very Best of Neil Diamond: the Original Studio Recordings’.
• In 2013, he made an impromptu entrance at Fenway Park to sing ‘Sweet Caroline’ during the 8th inning.
Major Works


• ‘Beautiful Noise’, his 1976 album, was his 10th album overall and is considered his ‘finest all around alum’. After his career slumped a bit, it was this album that brought him back to the forefront and marked the advent of a highly successful career then on. The album featured hit singles including ‘Stargazer’, ‘If You Know What I Mean’ and ‘Dry Your Eyes’. It reached the number 1 position on the Australian Kent Music Report and was certified Platinum in the US and Gold in UK.
• ‘Home before Dark’, which released in 2008, received positive reviews upon its release and topped music charts in USA, UK and New Zealand and was certified 4X Gold and Platinum in USA and UK, respectively. The album also featured hit singles like ‘If I Don’t See You Again’ and ‘Forgotten’.
Awards & Achievements


• He was presented the Sammy Cahn ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’, in 2000.
• In 2007, he was inducted into the ‘Long Island Music Hall of Fame’.
• In 2009, he was honored as the ‘MusiCares Person of the Year’.
• He obtained a Golden Globe Award for ‘Best Original Score’ for the film version of ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’.
• He also won a Grammy Award for ‘Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture’ for ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’.
• In 2011, he became an honoree at the Kennedy Center.
• In 2012, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Personal Life & Legacy


• In 1963, he married Jaye Posner with who he has two daughters. The couple divorced six years later in 1969.
• In 1979, he collapsed on stage while giving a performance and it was diagnosed that he had a tumor growing on his spine. Despite having surgery for the tumor, he continued to have persistent, severe back pain.
• He then married Marcia Murphey, with whom he had two sons. He divorced his second wife in 1994 or 1995, according to different sources.
• On April 12, 2012, he married Katie McNeil in front of family and friends. Prior to marrying Katie, he was in a brief relationship with Rae Farley.
Trivia
• This popular American singer-songwriter is known to wear colorful beaded shirts for his concerts so that people can vividly spot him in the audience without using the help of binoculars.

Neil Diamond - I Am, I Said
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Neil Diamond - Forever in Blue Jeans
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Neil Diamond - "Beautiful Noise"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FUUroVqWs
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  Savehouse | Sep 24, 2018 |
We meet Neil Atherton, the hero of this book, in the toilet of a Karaoke bar in Hong Kong and it’s Neil Diamond Nite. Egged on by people who appear to be friends of his wife, he performs a wonderful rendition of “Reason to Believe” a beautiful song written by Tim Hardin and covered by Neil Diamond, as he is performing this song he silences the room, who hang on his every word, every line he releases into the room has the ability to create listeners, believers out of a disparate crowd of cynics, drunks and the generally apathetic – it turns out Neil can sing & beautifully. After his turn is over, he is accosted by Elbert Chan, a Chinese man of about forty wearing a wild Hawaiian Shirt and claiming to be a music agent, with big plans for a singer of Neil's quality.
Neil Atherton is a middle-aged British Folk Singer/Guitarist who has touched the hem of the Goddess of success, yet climbed no higher, at one time he was on speaking terms with those who had the hits during the Folk boom of the late 60s – early 70s. He even worked as a backing musician with the likes of Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick, Fairport convention and their ilk, when they moved on, he toured those folk clubs that still survived in the back room of Pubs, clubs & church halls. Eventually garnering less & less work, he follows his wife when she’s offered a new job in Hong Kong and what at first seems like a new start, finds him completely lost with nothing to do - washed up in Hong Kong, he is no longer the free-spirited musician, just a kept man, accepting hand-outs from his wife who has made a success of this move. She has accepted and is thoroughly enjoying her new life, which is the antithesis of her past life and her husband, who still believes in the folk ideals of the sixties, she takes this opportunity to divest herself of all the old baggage…. Neil is kicked out and quickly replaced.
This leaves him almost homeless, living in a school room at night & spending his days in places like McDonalds, becoming more and more reliant on Elbert Chan and his offers of work as a Neil Diamond impersonator…..
We follow Neil through a series of increasingly bizarre scenarios, which includes a conflict with a leading stateside Diamond impersonator, I won’t say anymore on this as it would ruin what is a really funny & fantastic part of this tale. This book shows the underbelly, that dark seam, that hides beneath the glitz and glamour in all metropolis, shows how an innocent, naive individual gets enmeshed in a world so different from his own, that he doesn’t realise how it slowly is corrupting him. This is the tale of the fool, the king for a day marching blindly in borrowed glad rags to their own destruction.

http://parrishlantern.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/ghost-of-neil-diamond.html ( )
  parrishlantern | Jul 3, 2012 |
I enjoyed the book, and made inevitable comparisons to my own book dealing with an expat in Asia (At the Sharpe End). "Ghost" is definitely a more in-depth psychological examination of the expat situation than I managed (though I wasn't aiming at that market), and the plot, bizarre as it is, held my interest pretty well. Definitely worth the read. ( )
  hugh_ashton | Feb 16, 2011 |
Why do we review books from other publishers? Because we like to, that's why! There are a lot of good books out there, and we think you should know about them.

"The Ghost of Neil Diamond" is the best novel I've read in years. I've not experienced fiction like it since "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky.

Novelists can succeed at their craft four ways: storytelling, architecture, painting, and poetry. You almost certainly know what I mean by "storytelling." Great storytelling is exactly that: the ability to convey a tale that holds the reader's interest. It can be a story of high-school angst or interstellar war. Regardless, the writer spins a yarn that keeps your attention, one that you're glad you made the time to read.

Architecture refers to novel's intricacy, staging, and development. "War and Peace," a novel I don't like, is impressive in its sheer breadth, the swath of time, space, and people it covers. While the grandeur of its architecture is undeniable, its storytelling is abysmal. It's a hideously boring book. A novel doesn't have to be epic in scale to exhibit fine architecture. While a book might cover a single day spent alone in a protagonist's life, through its exploration of the character's actions, memories, and psyche it could be as vast as "The Odyssey."

A novelist can paint portraits, scenes, and images so striking that it doesn't matter whether the novel's story and architecture are weak. Jim Thompson's "The Grifters" and "The Getaway" are like that. As a stories go, they're not terribly interesting, but Thompson wields his pen-brush with such artistry that it doesn't occur to you until later that the plots were pretty threadbare.

Poetry and painting are closely related, but not the same. "Painting" for a novelist is the creation of singular, beautiful, or shocking people, places, or events through words. The word choice itself doesn't have to be remarkable. With simple, unassuming brushstrokes, the writer can limn memorable language-paintings. Charles Bukowski was like that.

It's very rare to find writers who can imbue their prose with poetry. And by poetry I don't mean sonnets and the like. I mean language that conveys that which can only be communicated through words. Plenty can be told through multiple media: books into plays into movies into comics into musicals… Poetry is different. It expresses experiences—layered, ephemeral moments—that are language's sole domain.

A few rare novels excel in all four categories. "The Ghosts of Neil Diamond", like "Suite Francaise", is one such book.

Honestly, I had a good feeling about Ghost right from its opening:

"Amen to all sorrows.

"With a few splashes of cold water Neil washed away his sins. He watched them slip down the plughole, one by wretched one. The wrongdoings and the wrong turns, the bad debts and the bad memories sank beyond the U-bend, and his soul lay empty and prepared. A whiff reached him from the urinals, the stale reminder of the catalogue of men who had fallen short just this point—the last call, the swan song. Well, forget them, he decided. They had their lives and this is mine. He lifted his aching head to the mirror. This time. Maybe this time."

As Sinatra once said, "If you don't like that, you don't like ice cream." It's as simple a scene as one could imagine: a man washing his face in a public lavatory. But the painting (the meticulous details, the imagery) coupled with the poetry (character's inner dialogue and the artistry by which it's expressed) is exquisite.

"So what's it about?" you ask. One the one hand, it's "a dark comedy," as its promotional bookmarks advertise. And an ingenious one at that. Set roughly ten years ago, it chronicles (figurative) death and rebirth of Neil Atherton, a middle-aged English folk musician. Well, more like former folk musician. Atherton has spent most of his life touring the folk circuit, "the shabby pub rooms, the British Legion Clubs, cellar bars, back rooms, church halls," struggling, waiting, plying and honing his art, waiting for the folk's revival. But sadly, unlike rockabilly, big band, and ska, there's been no folk revival. Folk died years ago, is still dead, and almost certainly will remain dead. (Now, to all you hipsters who are about to write angry emails about how there's a vibrant folk scene in your town, chill. I'm sure there are some swell singer-songwriters warbling in basements near and far. But unlike the hip-hoppers, their music ain't paying their bills. Day jobs at offices, libraries, and department stores are.) Neil's wife, Angel, in a last-ditch effort to escape destitution, takes up a lucrative job selling shipping space in Hong Kong, dragging Atherton along.

In Hong Kong Atherton transforms from anti-establishment, gypsy troubadour to a kept man. The thing is, Mrs. Atherton isn't so keen to keep her man. She's taken to Hong Kong's restlessness, ruthless meritocracy, and itches to trade Atherton in for a newer, sleeker model. Jobless and purposeless, Atherton keeps his self-esteem on life-support by singing karaoke, much to unsympathetic wifey's disgust.

One night, a local shady businessman, Elbert Chan, catches Atherton performing "Reason to Believe" as Neil Diamond. Chan, sensing a hot-property ripe for the plucking, gives Neil his business card. "If you want to fix up some dates, some bookings," he offers, "just call or stop by… I think you're terrific. Terrific. I really do. Any time. Open door. Perhaps I can be of service."

(Minor point: I can find no mention of Neil Diamond performing "Reason to Believe" under its Wikipedia page or that of its composer, Tim Hardin. What does that mean? Any number of things. Maybe Diamond did cover it. Wikipedia is far from infallible. Maybe the author made a mistake; certainly not an important one. Perhaps this is an instance of a novelist rewiring reality ever-so slightly to fit better his novel's architecture.)

What's Atherton's reaction to such a promising overturn? Disinterest, of course. But Angel (now that's interesting name choice) pushes him to take up Chan's offer. ("Losers can't be choosers, Neil.") And thus begins Atherton's initiation into Neil Diamond's world, or more accurately, the world of Neil Diamond impersonation. Initiation to a literal cult of personality. Suffice to say nothing is as it seems, or as Atherton hopes.

Chan becomes Atherton's second wife. The relationship isn't intimate or loving, yet it's very sexual in that it's driven by lust: specifically, lust for recognition and money. (Neil "Diamond.") Like a shrewd shrew, Chan alternately encourages and belittles Atherton, ignores and lavishes attention, knocks him down only to build him up again.

"Ghost," though quite original, follows the noir trope of the basically innocent man suddenly swept into a strange and corrupt world. Although there's no gangsters or violence, the underworld pulsates just below story's surface (forgive the pun).

I could reveal more of the novel's masterful architecture, but that would be unfair to you. If a family tells you they're making a pilgrimage to visit a beautiful cathedral, you don't show them photographs of its interior. No, let the church's stained glass, carvings, and sheer vastness astonish them. And at the risk of sounding effusive, you should make a pilgrimage to "The Ghost of Neil Diamond." It's that superb.

"Ghost" is about a lot more than one man's venture into show-business's fringes. It tackles authenticity versus imitation, generations of duplication, identity, art versus commerce, representation, and transformation. (Andy Warhol would've loved this book.) It's not for nothing that "Ghost" is set in the Far East, where factories churn out products originally made in the West. The output's quality varies from shoddy knockoffs to substantial improvements:

"A beautiful Chinese girl came on, dressed in a silvery sixties slip that was little more than a nightdress… She delivered a flawless Downtown. Petula Clark had to stay on the opposite screen the whole song. But Petula Clark was ignored, irrelevant. She'd been upstaged. Against her beautiful Chinese impersonator, Clark—in her mid-thirties, in dowdy black and white, 1965, couldn't compete. Not even with her one and only British hit. There was a discipline about this girl's performance that was unsettling to Neil… It was like watching a mirror image to Clark, except that she was so much prettier and sexier and more exotic."

Oh, and if that's not enough, "The Ghost of Neil Diamond" is also about culture clashes; performing; music; ambition; success; failure; desperation; home and homeless; music; sex; desire; flatulence…

"When he looked down, everywhere he looked, the thighs were trapped under the overflowing buttocks of European, Australian and American men, in their Thai silk suits or linen chinos… And trapped deep and tight between those overflowing buttocks were arseholes that had farted and shat on long haul flights to and from every capital in the world. Arseholes that had shat in Hyatts all around Asia, broken wind in conference rooms scented with rosewater, in Macau and Shenzen and Guangzhou."

That's a hysterically funny passage, but it's also an example of "Ghost'"s poignant—yes, I said poignant—poetry.

If you can't see the lyricism in farting—although, hey, passing gas is as much a part of life as work, eating, and sex—savor this passage from late in the novel, when Atherton and Chan have a business breakfast at a swank hotel's cafe. Atherton contemplates the restaurant's stunning vista:

"Now, sipping his second glass of coffee, Neil came to understand what gave the view its power. It wasn't just the beautiful panorama itself, with all its gliding reflections and deceptions. It was the silence of the scene beyond the glass. The silence underscored it all, as it were. The wash in the harbor was heavy from the weight of traffic—the ferries, barges, crane barges and liners—yet they all went by without a sound, not a hundred yards away. In the closeness of the sea traffic to the massive glass walls there was a danger, a recklessness, but it was suppressed, silenced, there was not a word about that. The risk had been taken and forgotten, had sunk to the bottom of the sea."

Like the hotel, Atherton seizes Hong Kong's spirit of risk and takes a gamble, perhaps the first real one he's ever wagered. Does he win? That's for you to find out. But "Ghost" itself takes a gamble—a story about an English folkie in Hong Kong impersonating Neil Diamond? Really?—and it pays off brilliantly.

Can I find any faults in "Ghost"? A few, but again, like Sinatra said, too few to mention. I would've liked a blurb about David Milnes: who he is, his past, and how come he writes Goddamn good.

Incidentally, if you think it's far-fetched that a veteran of the cellar bars would take up Neil Diamond impersonation, I draw your attention to Phranc, "all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer," (http://www.facebook.com/people/Phranc-Pholksinger/1204507430) who for awhile wowed audiences with her tributes to the Brooklyn Gemstone, complete with fake sideburns and chest hair. (http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/style/egos-ids-phranc-as-in-frank-or-neil.html) Now that's art. ( )
1 rösta | DissidentBooks | Nov 7, 2009 |
Denna recension är skriven av författaren själv.
For me, the greatest book I have written. ( )
  DavidMilnes | Jun 20, 2009 |
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..............I'll pick up the tab .............. This one's on me ............I'll get this ........... Don't worry, Neil ......... "Tonight I pick up all the tabs," Chan said, pulling out his wallet one more time. But every payment left a pocket of silence, and at the bottom of the pocket the short change of suspicion.
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Dark comedy. A washed up folk legend tries his hand as a Neil Diamond impersonator in the Far East and suffers an annihilation of identity. 'The best novel I've read in years. Storytelling, architecture, poetry and painting - a few rare novels excel in all four categories. This is one such book' dissident books, New York 'We have a real corker of a tale on our hands. It's a special find, a story with a uniqueness' bookmunch, uk 'A dark comedy stemming from the howling despair of a man who is out of his element in ever way' harmlessfraud.com dublin, ireland 'A rare find. A totally original and fascinating novel that holds your interest from beginning to end' alternativereel.com Florida

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