During his early days working as a songwriter in the Brill Building in New York City, Neil Diamond was nudged by his producers and mentors, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry—behind hits like the Dixie ...

Neil Diamond started out writing songs for a music publishing company in the hopes that someone would record them. He wrote The Monkees' No. 1 hit "I'm A Believer," but it was Diamond himself who made ...

It all started for Neil Diamond at the Brill Building. The fledgling singer-songwriter crafted tunes in an office at the famous Times Square landmark along with a number of unknown songsmiths who ...

FOR HIS HOT August night at MCI Center Wednesday, Neil Diamond will dip into a songbook whose copyrights go back to 1966 and includes such pop standards as "Cracklin' Rosie," "Sweet Caroline," "Love ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going back into our archive to listen to our 2005 interview with Neil Diamond. His life is the subject of the current Broadway musical "A Beautiful Noise," ...