They were playing Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline, " a staple at Boston Red Sox games.
She's "worth every penny, " remarked her husband of 25 years, music icon Neil Diamond.
The group's one American member, bassist Smokey Hormel, has worked with Neil Diamond and Johnny Cash, and hears the similarity.
The 62-year-old will be honoured alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma and singer-songwriter Neil Diamond.
Over the years, celebrities like Neil Diamond, Elton John, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Billy Crystal and Rod Stewart have all headlined his events.
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The Yankees honored Boston, home of their longtime rivals, by playing the Neil Diamond hit over the public-address system after the third inning against Arizona.
"I saw an interview recently with the singer, Neil Diamond, who isn't actually Christian, he's Jewish, " says Alistair McBay, who is spokesman for the National Secular Society in Scotland.
Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Sonny Rollins, Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma: At a time of year when Americans everywhere are counting their blessings, we want to give thanks to their extraordinary contributions.
Neil Diamond's songwriting career began like so many others -- he was trying to impress a girl. (Laughter.) The difference was that it worked and he went on to marry the girl.
In the album chart, greatest hits collections from Neil Diamond and Girls Aloud scored new entries at eight and nine respectively, while a new recording of Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds landed at 13.
Their first No. 1 song, "Last Train to Clarksville" in 1966, was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, but other top songwriters of the day were involved Neil Diamond, Gerry Goffin and Carole King and Harry Nilsson.
Throughout his career, the work of singer-songwriter Eric Bachmann hasn't exactly radiated warmth, whether he was unfurling surly screeds as lead singer of Archers of Loaf or re-creating himself as a crooning indie-rock Neil Diamond with Crooked Fingers.
Yankee fans belted the Neil Diamond hit during a game Tuesday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, showing solidarity with their neighbor to the north a day after explosions at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 170.
But at Fenway Park, in an attempt to regain a sense of normalcy, more than 35, 000 Red Sox fans bellowed out the lyrics to their eighth-inning signature tune, "Sweet Caroline, " led personally in a surprise appearance by Neil Diamond.
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So I decided to stay Julia Pimsleur, and show my loyalty in other ways, like allowing Neil Diamond albums to play in my home for the next 40 years (or at least until I could get my hands on noise-cancelling headphones).
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