# 75 – An American singer-songwriter
# 75 – An American singer-songwriter Neil Leslie Diamond- is an American singer-songwriter, born in 1941, he is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. For his 16th birthday, he got as a gift, his first guitar and started to take lessons, and almost immediately began to write songs. He said that his attraction to songwriting was the "first real interest" he had growing up, while also helped him release his youthful frustrations. Neil Diamond also used his newly developing skill to write poetry, by writing poems for girls he was attracted to in school, he soon learned it often won their hearts. His male classmates took note and began asking him to write poems for them, which they would sing and use it with equal success. In January 2018, Neil Diamond announced that he would stop touring because he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Tour dates on the final leg of the Diamond's "50 Year Anniversary World Tour" in Australia and New Zealand were cancelled. "Forever in Blue Jeans", co-written and jointly composed with his guitarist, Richard Bennett. Money talks But it don't sing and dance And it don't walk Long as I can have you Here with me, I'd much rather be Forever in blue jeans Honey's sweet But it ain't nothin' next to baby's treat (are not nothing) And if you pardon me I'd like to say ( I would like) We do okay Forever in blue jeans Maybe tonight Maybe tonight by the fire All alone you and I Nothing around But the sound of my heart And your sighs Money talks But it can't sing and dance And it can't walk And long as I can have you Here with me, I'd much rather be Forever in blue jeans, babe And honey's sweet But it ain't nothin' next to baby's treat And if you pardon me, I'd like to say We do okay Forever in blue jeans Maybe tonight Maybe tonight by the fire All alone you and I Nothing around But the sound of my heart And your sighs Money talks But it don’t sing and dance And it don't walk Long as I can have you Here with me I'd much rather be Forever in blue jeans And if you pardon me I'd like to say ( I would like) We do okay Forever in blue jeans babe long as I can have you Here with me I'd much rather be Forever in blue jeans, babe As long as I can have you Here with me I'd much rather be Forever in blue jeans, babe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uirapuru/message