Kennedy Center Honours Neil Diamond Part 1

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2011 WASHINGTON - The good times never seemed so good for Neil Diamond.
Known for his songs that have become anthems at ballparks and bars, Diamond was chosen Wednesday to receive the Kennedy Center Honors this year along with some of the biggest names from Broadway, jazz, classical music and Hollywood.
Diamond will be honored with Broadway singer Barbara Cook, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and actress Meryl Streep for their contributions to American culture through the arts. President Barack Obama will salute the artists and others will perform in their honor at a ceremony at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 4. CBS will broadcast the show Dec. 27.
Diamond said he was "flying way above sea level" when he heard about the honor.
"I've watched, and I've seen, and I've even dreamed that someday that would happen to me," he told The Associated Press. "But I never really believed that it would."
Diamond said he used to get distracted when people sang along with him to hits like "Sweet Caroline," which was written for presidential daughter Caroline Kennedy who hosts the show.
"But I realized pretty quickly that it was a compliment, and I had no choice in the matter anyway, so I got with the program and just learned to love it," said Diamond, who earlier this year was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He said he's planning another U.S. tour next summer after performing abroad recently.
The 70-year-old Diamond also tweeted Wednesday that he was engaged to a woman named Katie -- but wouldn't tell AP who she was so that she wouldn't "change her mind."

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  • @suellipollycarpo4449
    @suellipollycarpo44492 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful Voice, beautiful Singer, beautiful Man...Love You, Neil Diamond forever

  • @sweetcaroline2060
    @sweetcaroline206011 ай бұрын

    One night, a long time ago, I turned on the TV and low and behold, it was my all-time favorite musician/songwriter/entertainer on the Kennedy Awards. I almost fell out of my chair. It was just a "happy accident" that I found it. Love Neil Diamond 💎 ❤️ ♥️.

  • @kathyking5552
    @kathyking5552 Жыл бұрын

    Best entertainer of all time. And he did it all fully clothed unlike entertainers today!! I saw over a 100 of his concerts, and every one just got better. Even named two of my dogs - Shilo and Diamond. He was and will always be the best!!

  • @nikolaswagner3144
    @nikolaswagner31442 жыл бұрын

    Has meant so much to me and my late father. Nothing can happen in my little corner of life that Cracklin Rosie cannot bring healing and hope to me. I love and thank Mr Diamond from my heart.

  • @loristitt65
    @loristitt65 Жыл бұрын

    I WAS AT HIS FIRST CONCERT IN LOS ANGELES AND HAVE LOVED HIM EVER SINCE!

  • @darrelljordan5347
    @darrelljordan53473 жыл бұрын

    Mr Diamond. You're a wonder in the music industry. But you excel in another area well beyond your musical achievements - you are one beautiful human being. God made you. God loves you, God bless you!

  • @jogman262

    @jogman262

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree. No mention of his many charitable contributions. Neil coming to the rescue of Hurricane Ike victims just to name a big one.

  • @nikolaswagner3144

    @nikolaswagner3144

    2 жыл бұрын

    I took my Dad to see Mr Diamond in Orlando. Dad shows up wearing an immaculate pin stripe suit. Dad said, "this is how we rolled in the sixties". The show was a bond with Dad who passed away 4 months later. We both smiled about seeing our GUY live while we could together. I love Neil and all the positive things his words have created in my life. I wish him strength and peace always.

  • @lesaheit7811
    @lesaheit78114 жыл бұрын

    An absolute treasure you are Neil Diamond. I've seen you in concert twice and loved every second. So gracious and handsome xo Lots of love from Australia

  • @jogman262
    @jogman262 Жыл бұрын

    I think they could have taken a couple moments to mention his charitable donations. For example when Hurricane Ike struck Texas and decimated many homes on Oak Island, Neil, without any fanfare or photo ops, reached into his own pocket and helped rebuild many of those homes. He’s a great musician and a great man. His music has brought so much joy into my life.

  • @MarieClaireBeckx
    @MarieClaireBeckx3 жыл бұрын

    Neil's music 🎼🎶🎻🎵🎤 and lyrics ✍ are unbeatable. I am hapoy he has been finallly officially honoured 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.💐🌻

  • @MarieClaireBeckx
    @MarieClaireBeckx3 жыл бұрын

    Neil deserves it 👍👍👍

  • @user-nt1hl7wq1f
    @user-nt1hl7wq1f8 ай бұрын

    Beautiful Niel 🙏❤

  • @conradquilliam6076
    @conradquilliam60765 жыл бұрын

    Not just America, but the whole world loves Neil Diamond. Love from Australia 😄

  • @gerritveldhuisen7748

    @gerritveldhuisen7748

    3 жыл бұрын

    Neil Diamond was in 1977, four days on Tour in Netherland.there were problems with the Hammond organ (110 Volt America-Europe 220 Volt) I'm approached by Lou van Rees Management for a solution to my Hammond Rent.After four days I got my B3 Hammond returned with Fire spots of Cigarettes.It frustrated me.They have me removed me from the Neil Diamond Fan Club because I had this listed on their site.Never Excuse of Neil Diamond ;-(

  • @cristiansantibanez9599
    @cristiansantibanez95993 жыл бұрын

    Noche calida de agosto 1972 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇨🇱

  • @faithfawcett2117
    @faithfawcett211711 ай бұрын

    wish i had met him when we were younger. Wow

  • @trulalakita
    @trulalakita3 жыл бұрын

    I have loved neil diamond songs since my elem days sweet caroline so sweet to my ears...from the philippines

  • @stephenstpierre4728
    @stephenstpierre47285 жыл бұрын

    neil is at his best on his albums. in the studio he becomes neil, the man with the needs to do these song, all from his heart, i think his main concern was to reach people with songs that would tell us that he had feelings just like us. his main concern was not to have a big seller, lp but to sing how he feels first. god gave him the gift of song. love you neil, and thank you.

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.🍁🥰💐

  • @neoisgod9
    @neoisgod94 жыл бұрын

    I love NEIL and that was so very beautifully respectful.

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.🌺🤍💋

  • @johnjohn-ne8fw
    @johnjohn-ne8fw4 жыл бұрын

    Neil deserves everything and anything!

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.🤝🌹💖

  • @sheldoncohen4964
    @sheldoncohen49644 жыл бұрын

    Had the good fortune to see Neil in Florida many years ago. I too grew up in the same neighborhood as he did in Brooklyn. Love his music and how he so loved by the audiences he performs before.

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.💋🌸🤝🌾

  • @misabelgarciaruiz5618
    @misabelgarciaruiz56184 жыл бұрын

    Doy gracias a Dios por conocerte desde hace tantos años desde 1980, gracias mi chico guapo desde Ibiza España cuidense mucho mi chico guapo

  • @josephinestabel9647
    @josephinestabel96475 жыл бұрын

    The whole world loves this Man❤️💚🧡💜💞💝

  • @donaldcook3112
    @donaldcook311211 ай бұрын

    Exactly 48 years ago today ; the 7th of June, 1975 , I collected my copy of ‘HOT AUGUST NIGHT’ from my local record store. Had saved school bus fares and school dinner monies for weeks ( ‘pocket money’ was not an automatically, weekly ‘given’ where I grew up ) I had attempted to listen to it 2 years previously when my elder brother borrowed his friend’s copy. It , mostly , escaped me … this time it was l i f e - c h a n g i n g in ways that would require a book to explain . Very , very blessed to have seen Neil in concert 27 times ; starting with The London Palladium & Woburn Abbey in June and July 1977. Made it to The Greek Theatre in August ‘12 for his final 2 concerts celebrating the 40 th anniversary of the greatest live album ever recorded - a 13, 000 mile round trip . I am in total agreement with James A. Doolittle , the then (1972) Theatre Director of The Greek Theatre who stated : “ I enjoyed the theatrical experience of my lifetime due to the hypnotic and unsurpassed talents of Neil Diamond .”

  • @renegaderunner332
    @renegaderunner3324 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations to Neil Diamond.ne of the most innovative musicians of our time!

  • @patennis9116
    @patennis91164 жыл бұрын

    I think it was in 1971 when Neil came to Vancouver..as soon as I heard..I left work to go buy a ticket,I had 4th row center..on of the greatest times of my life!! Thank you Neil

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.🌼❤️💋🍁

  • @fiorsi781
    @fiorsi7814 жыл бұрын

    Neil 😍👏👏👏👏👏

  • @8656737s
    @8656737s5 жыл бұрын

    That's my dream to have one song on the radio! It would be out of this world ❤ He's so amazing!!!

  • @loristitt65

    @loristitt65

    Жыл бұрын

    GF FANTASTIC RECOGNITION ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @anamariaminisale
    @anamariaminisaleАй бұрын

    Bien merecido reconocimiento para Nail ❤a ❤los amo y❤❤❤❤

  • @claudinewilliamson1150
    @claudinewilliamson11509 ай бұрын

    Anazing music!!!!!

  • @laika5757
    @laika57574 жыл бұрын

    Neil, Elton and Dylan..my Holy Trinity of Singer/Song writers..🎼🎵🎶🎸

  • @survivrs
    @survivrs5 жыл бұрын

    Every time I hear that cry in his voice, I get goosebumps!

  • @rosariogarciasuarez1143
    @rosariogarciasuarez11434 жыл бұрын

    MUY MERECIDO PREMIO O RECONOCIMIENTO A NEIL DAIMOND COMO SE LO MERECE UN GRAN ARTISTA DE TALLA INTERNACIONAL.

  • @vesnatomica8134
    @vesnatomica813424 күн бұрын

    Angel ❤❤❤❤❤love you

  • @alwayssme
    @alwayssme6 жыл бұрын

    what a tribute to my fave singer so sorry to hear of his recent diagnosis , best wishes for him

  • @jamespennington9719
    @jamespennington97194 жыл бұрын

    One of those guy's that "Is" that good! Love every damn thing he ever put out there!

  • @renatadavid8452
    @renatadavid84525 жыл бұрын

    Simplesmente,amo,,,ele fez por merecer,e merece todo carinho reconhecimento por que ele é perfeito,maravilhoso,,,viva Neil Diamond,,,viva,,,

  • @user-ll8yf3jb8b
    @user-ll8yf3jb8bАй бұрын

    ❤❤❤mi mejor cantante de mi vida ,ya soy mayor pero sigo emocionarme mucho 😅🥰😘😘😘😘😘😘

  • @rondanorris5504
    @rondanorris55045 жыл бұрын

    You've gotta LOVE him!! 💜

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.💮❤️💋🌹🌺🌸

  • @sweetpea0273
    @sweetpea02739 жыл бұрын

    Oh dear ; Let Neil sing his own songs . Neil you're the best !!!! Love Neil Diamond !!!!

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.🌼❤️🌹

  • @loishopton3635
    @loishopton36356 жыл бұрын

    Neil Diamond had us all enthralled!!

  • @rosemarieacipperley280
    @rosemarieacipperley2804 жыл бұрын

    I love Neil Diamond I got to see him twice at Pepsi in Albany both times as a birthday present for my birthday in November many years ago

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.💋🌸🌺🌴

  • @user-rz8bu6vl8x
    @user-rz8bu6vl8x2 ай бұрын

    I love sweet Caroline but his song I am I said is great ❤

  • @JPammo
    @JPammo9 жыл бұрын

    They forgot to mention his HOT AUGUST NIGHT era. It seems that was totally skipped over. It was his best EVER. I think there should be a new award for always MY Neil Diamond.... His passion.... This looked too commercial. I demand a retake!!

  • @tonylove4800

    @tonylove4800

    3 жыл бұрын

    No question. The first album I ever bought was Beautiful Noise but then I went back and HAN is the ultimate. I have seen him live in NZ twice.

  • @carolannOConnell
    @carolannOConnell9 жыл бұрын

    I. Love you Neil Diamond

  • @dalenedeysel5614
    @dalenedeysel56142 ай бұрын

    Such an achievement, bowing for your talent the Lord present it to you and you didn’t cover it but work hard and that is why the Lord gives you all the rewards you deserve 🎉Amen 6:41

  • @fredojoaquim4764
    @fredojoaquim47645 жыл бұрын

    I love Neil Diamond.

  • @clararoldan6738

    @clararoldan6738

    5 жыл бұрын

    I love nail diamond the songs beautifull i listen from argentina

  • @survivrs
    @survivrs6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Neil Diamond for your incredible music, especially Sweet Caroline. That song became the anthem for the Iowa City West High School since August of 2011 when an incredible kid by the name Caroline Found was killed instantly in a freak moped accident. She didn't like being called Caroline, she said call me Line or Liner, nothing else. She helped lead her team to the state championship in 2010 as a junior, but just days before her senior year, the entire city and much of the state of Iowa learned about her death. On April 13th, a movie titled "The miracle season", named after the book written by Kathy Bresnahan who was the coach for the girls volleyball team opens in theaters, (book was released this week) all about this young girl who had touched so many lives, and after her death, Sweet Caroline was played and sung by everyone in the bleachers at volleyball as well as other sports. Also, her mom Ellyn, who was battling end stage pancreatic cancer somehow managed to make it to the funeral for her youngest child, she even walked out of the church with her husband rather than the wheelchair she arrived in. She passed away 12 days after her daughter. Her dad Ernie was a spinal surgeon, and performed surgery on my back in early 2011, and he is such a kind, gentle giant. "Line" was more than just a volleyball player, and here is a link to a great video from Bryant Gumbel on HBO Sports. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pHt5rZisp6eoeNI.html

  • @kelleybutler9720

    @kelleybutler9720

    5 жыл бұрын

    Survivrs What a sad yet beautiful and inspiring story too. It’s about tragedies and it’s also about perseverance by her Mother who was dying and so very sick yet choosing to stand the last time for her youngest child, her precious baby girl. The fact that the Father and the other siblings when own to have a great life and being kind, never letting their loses stop them. It’s a story about the amazing human spirit and how we should always count our blessings everyday for we never know what tomorrow will bring. Thanks 🙏🏼 tremendously for sharing this story for others to hear and know about, you never know just how much a true story like this will touch someone’s life and maybe even safe someone’s life. Line was most certainly more than just a volleyball player, she was so very much more. It teaches us to always look deeper and that we should want and need to understand more than what’s just at face value. Thanks to for the link to the HBO Bryant Gumbel video!

  • @ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

    @ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Line"'s Battle Hymn, was "OH, PLEASE....FUCK OFF!" Aint that right, Survivrs.

  • @cmrutter777765
    @cmrutter7777657 жыл бұрын

    my name is Caroline and I love him ty

  • @omarg7879
    @omarg78795 жыл бұрын

    Reconocimiento ampliamente merecido al gran Neil Diamond. Todavía queda algo d respeto.

  • @sweetpea0273
    @sweetpea02738 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for honoring Neil , nice video, well done !! Thank-you !!!

  • @taniamaramartinipereira276

    @taniamaramartinipereira276

    8 жыл бұрын

    Que lindo talento ! Que lindo coração de Nei Diamond ❤ 🌟 estará para sempre em meu coração ❤ ❤ ❤

  • @jimmymannion883
    @jimmymannion88310 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing, as I missed the opening of this!! Great genius of our time and thanks for posting!

  • @nealhurwitz
    @nealhurwitz7 жыл бұрын

    GREAT!!!! Y!

  • @johnjohn-ne8fw
    @johnjohn-ne8fw3 жыл бұрын

    I'm also a believer 👍

  • @zzyyxxo
    @zzyyxxo9 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Lithgow is national treasure.

  • @Laurieis1
    @Laurieis14 жыл бұрын

    I don’t know if this will get to Neil Diamond or not but I just wanted to let you know that you have played a part in me and my son’s life. He’s always been an Artist of many things. From the time he was 7 months old yes 7 months old he learned how to whistle while he later in traction with a broken femur. Well anyway as the year passed he always had the art of a microphone and singing and she 2 took off on a tiny bicycle my father had built him. And then he began to draw my father got and built him a desk while a chalkboard. Later on when he was 11 he had been playing different instruments still can he brought a band together he even was in a competition won 1st place with his 2 friends he was lead singer and guitarist of course then as he was in last part of his high school went to a vocational school training in producing media and Art. He further his career went to 2 colleges graduating both colleges with too honor and Presidential awards. Having said all this I was such a Neil Diamond fan he grew up listening with and without me to you Neil Diamond to fast forward everything he began his own business it grew in Columbus, Ohio and we always new he was New York bound. He finally made it to New York and opened his 2nd shop. He does Art production media digital design and even has a Tee shirt business on the side also. All I have to do say or text email is Hello my friend hello.. it means so much to him and I and your music has played a huge part of our life’s btw he’s only 33 and has accomplished all this . So thank you for your songs and you are truly a wonderful man singer and song writer ❤️💕

  • @noahmills.6643

    @noahmills.6643

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being a fan!! I just wanna appreciate you in particular for being a fan and you should keep supporting me it brings me so much joy that I'm able to put smiles on your faces and hearts.💋💮

  • @jothompson5401
    @jothompson54019 жыл бұрын

    American Classic Indeed

  • @yoletteseide-bernadel9212
    @yoletteseide-bernadel92123 жыл бұрын

    But He’s ours. He was born and raised in Brooklyn U S A

  • @andrewgirdlestone7607
    @andrewgirdlestone76077 жыл бұрын

    John Lithgow wow comic genius

  • @debbiegreen5963
    @debbiegreen59635 жыл бұрын

    did I miss his first written hit ; so much for the Monkees treated like 'sugar sugar' which was the number one in 69

  • @moodyfan4ever
    @moodyfan4ever6 жыл бұрын

    He forgot The Monkees , im believer.

  • @elsiebrandso5847

    @elsiebrandso5847

    6 жыл бұрын

    Love him and his music , he toured New Zealand 1976 and I climb the fence as I couldn’t afford to buy a ticket . Still a poor student - cops had to pull me down from the fence as they were doing that I hold on to the fence so my long Levi trousers went down just my nickers with me hanging on to the fence at least I get a glimpse of him from far he was glittering in blue . And the rest is history , love his music to this day . Cheers Neil Diamond love you man of Soul .

  • @nealhurwitz
    @nealhurwitz6 жыл бұрын

    !!!!!

  • @batman1169
    @batman11695 жыл бұрын

    What is that thing beside him on the left @ 1:23 looks like something the Late Jim Henson made getting nominated!

  • @ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

    @ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

    5 жыл бұрын

    An overrated Actress, maybe.

  • @DAS1962
    @DAS196210 жыл бұрын

    Ironic of the American classic and they end it with footage playing Glastonbury in the UK

  • @jogman262

    @jogman262

    4 жыл бұрын

    He's a worldwide classic.

  • @Noosic
    @Noosic4 жыл бұрын

    Funny how Lithgow left out the band who covered "I'm a Believer" with the greatest success, The Monkees.

  • @neoisgod9

    @neoisgod9

    4 жыл бұрын

    Noosic there’s a reason for that.

  • @user-rz8bu6vl8x

    @user-rz8bu6vl8x

    2 ай бұрын

    Neil diamond wrote the song.

  • @discosycosasdyc7287
    @discosycosasdyc72873 жыл бұрын

    That John Lithgow introduction... looks to me like a lot of very bad taste. Don´t understand how they do such things having the opportunity of doing much finer things. Well... its America.

  • @joesanchez6970
    @joesanchez69703 жыл бұрын

    Hey is that beautiful black lady Alisha Keyes

  • @SueWalsh
    @SueWalsh8 жыл бұрын

    Why did they skip The Monkees when they mentioned I'm a Believer? That's just absurd. They were the first to make it a hit.

  • @MsSusanmary

    @MsSusanmary

    7 жыл бұрын

    probably because Neil Diamond WROTE it !?!

  • @laminage

    @laminage

    7 жыл бұрын

    Anne Murray also sang "Daydream Believer".

  • @Detodope1

    @Detodope1

    7 жыл бұрын

    neil write this song...

  • @ruthjohnson4380

    @ruthjohnson4380

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was in 5th grade when The Monkees came out with that record. It wasn’t until much later I found out Neil Diamond wrote that song.

  • @aubreychatellier9997

    @aubreychatellier9997

    5 жыл бұрын

    "I'm a Believer" is a song composed by Neil Diamond and recorded by The Monkees in 1966 with the lead vocals by Micky Dolenz.

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