Boy, I think I've already covered all the big ones - except for one. Who is it, you ask?
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NEIL DIAMOND!
When I was younger, I had such a crush on Neil. We're talking the 70's or so when he was a big gun in the music biz and had hit after hit on the radio. I know, he's not been writing new songs for the past couple of decades, but he's been touring like crazy, and if you don't know, his tours are among the highest grossing and highest attended every single year - and it's REALLY hard to get tickets. Now, of course, he has a new album out, produced with Rich Rubins (is that right?) that is getting rave reviews and contains all new music. I'm very happy for him but it's going to make it that much harder to get tickets to a concert.....
Anyway, I saw Neil at the Coliseum in 1986 and it was SO GOOD! Sue, Judy and I all "loved" him, and we tried to get tickets every time he came but it just worked this once. He was high energy, in fabulous voice, and those eyes...those sexy eyes... The man is 64 years old and still has the sexiest eyes, but back then...swoon....
We were so weird - two or three years when he was in town and we didn't have tickets, we met over at my house, got all his pictures out, lit lots of candles like an altar around his pics, and played all his albums for hours. Our own little shrine to Neil Diamond.
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