Growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1940s and ’50s, Neil Diamond was surrounded by different cultures, descendants of those who emigrated to America before them. Diamond’s own grandparents were also immigrants with his mother’s side coming from Russia, and his father’s family emigrating from Poland. As he began working on his album, The […]
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