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August 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 his depression. “I remember when they left, they were leaving for a far-off place, Los Angeles,” he recalls. “I went into a real funk and it prompted my parents to support the idea that to cheer me up cause I was always singing, to get me some guitar lessons just to bring me out of the funk. And I found something that absorbed me completely for the rest of my life.”