Like many was saddened to hear Neil Diamond announce he was retiring from touring performances due to suffering the effects of Parkinson's Disease.
As again like many I grew up with 'Hot August night", and we were all excited to be allowed to stay up and watch his 1976 Sydney concert on tv (provided we had got changed into our pjs prior).
It was a great concert performance, he gave that guitar a real work-out.
Can still remember his explanation of where "Song sung blue" came from - a Mozart piece.
Believe "Cherry cherry" opened the concert (thanks Andrew C. on YouTube).
It seems more and more of the inspiring writers, performers, actors that I've watched, read and listened to are succumbing to the ills of mere-mortals - live long in our minds and memories, and get a cure for Parkinson's.
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