Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Back to school

“Back to school”: Neil Diamond rocks Brooklyn school with pop-up concert
The famed singer announced a surprise concert at Erasmus Hall High School on Twitter to promote his latest album “Melody Road”. Fans lined up Monday along Flatbush Ave. to hear Diamond serenade them with “Sweet Caroline”.
By Chelsia Rose Marcius, Jason Molinet / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / Monday, September 29, 2014

Neil Diamond was back at the Brooklyn high school he called a life-changing experience on Monday night, creating a log jam along Flatbush Ave. as fans lined up to see him perform in a surprise concert at Erasmus Hall High School.
The 73-year-old Diamond announced the free concert on Twitter just hours earlier, the first time he’s played Erasmus Hall since attending school there from 1954-56. “Back to Brooklyn, back to school”, Diamond tweeted.
Erasmus, a Brooklyn institution, also produced Al Davis, Bobby Fischer and Barbra Streisand. [Read more].

KEN GOLDFIELD/(KEN GOLDFIELD FOR NY DAILY NEWS)
Neil Diamond surprised fans with a free performance at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn on Monday.

https://twitter.com/NeilDiamond/status/516559601874268161

“At Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, [Robert James Fischer] excelled in Spanish, math and the sciences but considered his teachers ‘all mental cases’”, recalls Joe Holley, The Washington Post, January 19, 2008.

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