It had to be, given he announced this week – not long before his latest tour of Australia was to kick off - that he would no longer perform live. Come on down Mr Neil Diamond, originally of Brooklyn, New York, and today turning 77. In November WBW (READ IT AGAIN HERE) featured Diamond talking in 2010 about how little short of the final curtain would keep him from going back on stage as he had for 50 years. With a diagnosis of Parkinson’s finally undermining that work ethic, W

He’s just announced a tour of Australia in 2018, by which time he’ll be 77 and you would think nearing retirement. But he said here in 2010 that there’s only one thing which will keep Neil Diamond from the stage, and that’s the final curtain. ‘THEY WANT A REAL HUMAN BEING – AND THAT’S WHAT I’M GOING TO GIVE THEM’ As with hearing “here’s the bass solo”, the news that an artist is doing an album of covers is generally a sign that fans can take a break for while, safe in the kno