2011 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame: Neil Diamond

12/16/2010
. The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Class of 2011 was officially announced yesterday and hennemusic posted the bios for each inductee. Here is the bio for Neil Diamond:

Neil Diamond's half-century as a prolific singer, songwriter and recording artist (nearly four decades on Columbia Records) is one of the eternal verities of American popular music.

He began taking pre-med studies at New York University, but was interrupted in 1962 by an offer to write songs for $50 a week at 1619 Broadway, the Brill Building. Like many writers there, including fellow Brooklynites Neil Sedaka and Carole King, Diamond was writing as much for himself as for others. more on this story

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