Home Before Dark was Diamond’s 27th studio effort, and his second consecutive album that was produced by Rick Rubin. Home Before Dark featured one charting single, “Pretty Amazing Grace,” which ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going back into our archive to listen to our 2005 interview with Neil Diamond. His life is the subject of the current Broadway musical "A Beautiful Noise," ...

Talk about an oxymoronic title, especially for a musical. Drawn from a 1976 Neil Diamond song title and applied to the whole arc of his life and career, “A Beautiful Noise” is a yoking worth pondering ...

“A Beautiful Noise” is a jukebox musical that understands the assignment. The show, which opened Wednesday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on the Broadway musical’s North American tour, exists to ...