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Neil Diamond is 70 today
Written by admin on January 24, 2011 – 8:04 pm -Happy Birthday to Neil Diamond who is 70-years-old today. The legendary singer-songwriter was born Neil Leslie Diamond on January 24, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Diamond began writing songs while studying medicine at New York University and it was as a Brill Building songwriter that he achieved his first success, penning such classics as “I’m a Believer” for the Monkees (although he had already recorded it himself). Diamond’s breakthrough hit was “Solitary Man” in 1966 and he would go on to have 16 Top Ten albums and 37 Top Ten singles. |
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