Neil Diamond decided to try something different when he took his first major acting role in The Jazz Singer in 1980. Unfortunately, most film critics found him and the film in which he starred to be ...

As a lot of his contemporaries fell off the charts, he moved from teen pop to adult pop, including his duet with Barbra Streisand and his hits from his remake of "The Jazz Singer." Before we get to ...

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 ...

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," ...