He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond
He Is...I Say examines Neil Diamond's singular place in the pantheon of popular music. David Wild—who has written about Diamond for Rolling Stone, penned the liner notes to a number of Diamond's anthologies, and produced Diamond's scandal-free episode of Behind the Music. Now he dares to turn on his “Heartlight,” offering a moving and hilarious salute to his own Jewish Elvis based on his past interviews with the Solitary Man himself.

An illuminating snapshot of a beloved American icon, He Is...I Say endearingly speaks to the condition of being a Diamondhead in a hipper-than-thou world, while fully illustrating exactly what it is that makes the man and the artist so special.

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He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond
He Is...I Say examines Neil Diamond's singular place in the pantheon of popular music. David Wild—who has written about Diamond for Rolling Stone, penned the liner notes to a number of Diamond's anthologies, and produced Diamond's scandal-free episode of Behind the Music. Now he dares to turn on his “Heartlight,” offering a moving and hilarious salute to his own Jewish Elvis based on his past interviews with the Solitary Man himself.

An illuminating snapshot of a beloved American icon, He Is...I Say endearingly speaks to the condition of being a Diamondhead in a hipper-than-thou world, while fully illustrating exactly what it is that makes the man and the artist so special.

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He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond

He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond

by David Wild
He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond

He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond

by David Wild

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Overview

He Is...I Say examines Neil Diamond's singular place in the pantheon of popular music. David Wild—who has written about Diamond for Rolling Stone, penned the liner notes to a number of Diamond's anthologies, and produced Diamond's scandal-free episode of Behind the Music. Now he dares to turn on his “Heartlight,” offering a moving and hilarious salute to his own Jewish Elvis based on his past interviews with the Solitary Man himself.

An illuminating snapshot of a beloved American icon, He Is...I Say endearingly speaks to the condition of being a Diamondhead in a hipper-than-thou world, while fully illustrating exactly what it is that makes the man and the artist so special.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786726929
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publication date: 10/06/2009
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 392,497
File size: 291 KB

About the Author

David Wild, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, is a music, film, and television journalist, and an Emmy-nominated television writer. Wild lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Opening Act, Coming to America, More Specifically North Jersey ix

Song Sung 1 I'm a Believer 1

Song Sung 2 Brooklyn Roads, and a Few Other Side Streets 27

Song Sung 3 Street Life 41

Song Sung 4 Solitary Man Seeks Office Work 53

Song Sung 5 Cherry, Cherry and Twenty-four Other Ways to Move Me 67

Song Sung 6 A Song Sung Blue on Glory Road 85

Song Sung 7 Lost Between Two Shores and Found on a Hot August Night 99

Song Sung 8 Of Being and Bird Droppings 113

Song Sung 9 Hello Again 127

Song Sung 10 Amazed and Confused 145

Song Sung 11 Gold Don't Rust 163

Song Sung 12 Hell Yeah 179

Encore: I Believe in Happy Endings 193

Acknowledgments 203

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