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thedailyswarm.com - 8/20/2009

Neil Diamond Credits Music Career to Dodgers Leaving Brooklyn...

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More than 50 years later, Diamond is still hurt by the move of his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles…but it turns out if wasn’t for the sting of that move Neil Diamond, music superstar may not exist. It was only then his parents turned to music to help ...

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Neil Diamond: When Dodgers Left Brooklyn, Neil Diamond Became a Star
Prefix — ... have become a musician if it weren't for the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to Los Angeles. The "Sweet Caroline" singer -- who began his career in the 60s -- was so broken up over the news that his parents encouraged him to pursue music to help cure his depression. “I went into a real funk and it prompted my parents ... to get me some guitar lessons just to bring me out of the funk," Diamond asserted. "And I found something that absorbed me completely for the rest of my life.” [The Daily Swarm] ...