Diamond has been in the news recently following the hilarious parody of his massively famous song, 'Sweet Caroline. But what's the story of 'Sweet Caroline? I think we all know that story if you don't, check this out.
I'm talking about the story of how 'Sweet Caroline' became the unofficial anthem for the people of Boston. According to Boston Pastime , "Sweet Caroline" is played at every Red Sox game before the bottom of the 8th inning and rumor has it the song was requested by former Red Sox announcer, Ed Brickley as a tribute to the newborn daughter of Billy Fitzpatrick, a year employee of Fenway Park. While certainly a sweet rumor, it's not the truth.
In reality, Boston has a woman named Amy Toby to thank. Official Wembley DJ Tony Perry told his followers on Twitter that he chose Sweet Caroline for the playlist and the match director agreed it was a good choice, saying: 'Let them have it, the world's been closed for 18 months'.
At full time he had to make a call what song to play after 3 Lions' - referencing Frank Skinner and David Baddiel's hit, which is the team's official song - and he gave Sweet Caroline a second outing.
Fast-forward to England's latest win, a tense victory over Denmark to grab a place in the final on Sunday, in a stadium properly packed for the first time since the pandemic began, and Sweet Caroline somehow managed to upstage Skinner and Baddiel's Three Lions on a Shirt as the song of choice when Dutch referee Danny Makkelie blew the final whistle. Former England star turned pundit Rio Ferdinand shared a video to his social media accounts of him leading a chorus of the song at Wembley's Boxpark fan arena last night.
Pundit Roy Keane revealed his love for Sweet Caroline and a hilarious anecdote about rowing with a woman at a Neil Diamond concert after the singer's message to the England team was shown in the build-up to the match.
I'll be watching from the mountains of Colorado singing Sweet Caroline along with all of you. Good luck England! When Diamond first released the song, written in a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, in May , it spent 14 weeks on the US chart peaking at number 4, and made it to number 8 on the UK charts. While there's no reference to sport in it, Diamond's lyrics 'good times never felt so good' means that dozens of sports teams on both sides of the Pond have used it to celebrate wins on the pitch.
After the tragedy of the Boston Marathon Bombings in , Diamond turned up at the stadium to sing Sweet Caroline to fans at the first match following the terrorist attack. Diamond told the Today programme in that he wrote the song for his ex wife Marcia Murphy, but had to change the title because her name wouldn't fit with the tune. Instead, the father-of-four who's been married three times, used the Kennedy's daughter Caroline, then 7, as inspiration after seeing a family photo of her with her pony.
On this side of the Atlantic, the song has also been a regular blasted around football grounds and was previously heard before in big boxing fights in the UK. Indeed enthusiastic sports fans have taken to Twitter to lay claim to the tune, gently mocking England for apparently 'discovering' it only this week. The Boston Red Sox have famously adopted the tune with fans of the US baseball team regularly singing it at their Fenway Park stadium - in April , following the Boston Marathon bombings, Diamond performed the song in front of crowds at the stadium.
Some Aston Villa fans quibbled that the song belonged to the Birmingham club Northern Ireland is just one of the many teams that has blasted Sweet Caroline at games for years.
There was a little sniping on Twitter as some Aston Villa fans claimed their song had been 'nicked'. Another reasoned: 'Tbf we nicked it from Stoke in the promotion season. The royal invited the Band of the Coldstream Guards to play instrumental versions of the rousing Euro anthems at his London residence on Tuesday in support of the men's team's quest to reach their first major tournament final since The soldiers, in their pristine bright red tunics and bearskin hats, stood in the sunshine at the heir to the throne's London base, trumpeting out the melodies on their brass instruments.
The soldiers, in their pristine bright red tunics and bearskin hats, stood in the sunshine at the heir to the throne's London base. We know all the words! England stars sang along with the crowd on Wednesday evening. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
Argos AO. Then, in , Charles Steinberg began working at the Red Sox as a vice president of public affairs. He saw how much the crowd loved the song; therefore, he insisted that it play nightly. The eighth inning was chosen because it was right before the Red Sox would come up to bat for the last inning.
The song began to take off as a tradition. The crowd knew what to expect, and the festive song would brighten up spectators near the end of every baseball game.
The song, however, gained more meaning soon after that. Later, in , Caroline Kennedy attended a Red Sox game, and Steinberg asked her if the song was about her. However, five years later, Neil Diamond stated that his inspiration for the song was, indeed, a picture of her as a little girl next to her horse in the s, shortly after her father, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated.
At that point, the song became more significant, as a tribute to him, and then more important to the ballpark through a string of innocuous events. All the pieces fit together, and a meaningful tradition was born. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements.
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