NEIL DIAMOND 1984 Primitive Tour Vintage Concert Program Book Music Memorabilia

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NEIL DIAMOND 1984 Primitive Tour Vintage Concert Program Book Music Memorabilia
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Excellent Softcover Tour Program! The binding is tight and all pages within are bright with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. It does have minor cover wear and a small corner crease as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!
About Neil Diamond:
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. With 38 songs in the Top 10 on the
Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, Diamond has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling
musicians of all time. On the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, he has had ten No. 1 singles: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue",
"Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desiree", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "America",
"Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight".
Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Additionally, he received
the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and in 2011 was an honoree at the Kennedy Center. In 2018, Diamond received the
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
A planned film version of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" to star Diamond and Streisand fell through when Diamond instead starred in a
1980 remake of the Al Jolson classic The Jazz Singer alongside Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz. Though the movie received poor
reviews, the soundtrack spawned three Top 10 singles, "Love on the Rocks", "Hello Again", and "America", the last of which had emotional
significance for Diamond. "'America' was the story of my grandparents," he told an interviewer. "It's my gift to them, and it's very real for me
... In a way, it speaks to the immigrant in all of us." The song was performed in full by Diamond during the film's finale. An abbreviated
version played over the film's opening titles.
The song was also the one he was most proud of, partly because of when it was later used: national news shows played it when the
hostages were shown returning home after the Iran hostage crisis ended; it was played on the air during the 100th anniversary of the
Statue of Liberty; and at the tribute to Martin Luther King and the Vietnam Vets Welcome Home concert, he was asked to perform it live. At
the time, a national poll found the song to be the number-one most recognized song about America, more than "God Bless America". It also
became the anthem of his world tour two weeks after the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, when he changed the lyric at the end
from; "They're coming to America", to "Stand up for America!" Earlier that year he performed it after a request from former heavyweight
champion Muhammad Ali.
The film's failure was due in part to Diamond never having acted professionally before. "I didn't think I could handle it," he said later, seeing
himself as "a fish out of water." For his performance, Diamond became the first-ever winner of a Worst Actor Razzie Award, even though
he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the same role. Critic David Wild noted that the film showed that Diamond was open about
his religion: "Who else but this Jewish Elvis could go multi-platinum with an album that featured a version of 'the Kol Nidre?'" Diamond later
told the Los Angeles Times, "For me, this was the ultimate bar mitzvah."
Another Top 10 selection, "Heartlight", was inspired by the blockbuster 1982 movie E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Though the film's title
character is never mentioned in the lyrics, Universal Pictures, which had released E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and was the parent company
of the Uni Records label, by then called MCA Records, for which Diamond had recorded for years, briefly threatened legal action against
both Diamond and Columbia Records.
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, but his concert tours continued to be big draws. Billboard magazine ranked Diamond as the most profitable solo performer of 1986.
He released his 17th studio album in 1986, Headed for the Future, which reached number 20 on the Billboard 200. Three weeks later he
starred in Hello Again, his first television special in nine years, performing comedy sketches and a duo medley with Carol Burnett.
In January 1987, Diamond sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl. His "America" became the theme song for the Michael Dukakis
1988 presidential campaign. That same year, UB40's reggae interpretation of Diamond's ballad "Red Red Wine" topped the Billboard Pop
Singles chart and, like the Monkees' version of "I'm a Believer", became better known than Diamond's original version.