Happy Birthday to Neil Diamond, who turns 72-years-old today!!! Diamond is best known for his string of hits, including such classics as “Cracklin’ Rosie,” “Song Sung Blue,” “I Am. . . I Said,” “Cherry Cherry,” “Kentucky Woman,” “Thank The Lord For The Night Time,” “Solitary Man,” “Red, Red Wine,” “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon,” “Love On The Rocks,” “Hello Again,” and “America,” among many others. Diamond also wrote the Monkees‘ Number One hit, “I’m A Believer,” as well as other Monkees favorites including the Top Two hit, “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You,” and “Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow).”
Last year, Diamond married his co-manager Katie McNeil in Los Angeles. Diamond, who’s 30 years older than McNeil, has been married two other times; first in 1963 to his high school sweetheart, Jayne “Posey” Posner, with the couple splitting six years later. Diamond walked down the isle with second wife Marcia Murphey that same year with the couple calling it quits in 1994. Diamond reportedly paid Murphey a whopping $150 million divorce settlement. Both of Diamond’s previous marriages produced two children each.
Check it out Neil Diamond in 1970 on The Johnny Cash Show:
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