Believe it or not, there was actually a time when Neil Diamond wasn’t super-cool. One of the great American songwriters — “I’m a Believer,” “Cracklin’ Rosie,” “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon,” “Solitary ...

Though we are never fully told why, Diamond dealt with a darkness around him that he could never shake. Even after he ...

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 ...

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," ...