Neil Diamond Speaks About Shooting Drama

Veteran singer Neil Diamond has revealed that he was shot as a teenager.

Diamond said that during his younger years he got involved with the wrong crowd in Brooklyn, New York and was only convinced to leave the gang when he ran into trouble.

"On weekends, my friends and I would go out and get into fights with kids from other neighbourhoods.

"One night we were scrapping with these guys, when all of a sudden I heard a pop and felt a hit under my left eye,” he told Blender.

"It turned out I'd been shot. It was only a pellet gun, but it hurt pretty bad. That was my first and last gang fight."

Neil Diamond previewed songs off his number one album 'Home Before Dark' in New York earlier this year.

Thanks for the info to Gigwise.com.

Comments

[Thin-Lizzy]

Oh come on, stop with the misleading titles UG, it was only a pellet gun FFS.

[fissh]

Thin-Lizzy wrote:

Oh come on, stop with the misleading titles UG, it was only a pellet gun FFS.

Quoted for truth. So you got shot by a pellet gun and that changed you from your wascally ways? Woo?

[godofdeth]

Neil Diamond is so badass!!!... /sarcasm

[keithmoon15]

wow thats pretty serious it could of broken the skin or something

[daft_funk]

should've aimed for the groin

[Mootallica]

keithmoon15 wrote:

wow thats pretty serious it could of broken the skin or something

ROFL

[dead-end-friend]

wouldnt a true reinstone cowboy have a reinstone covered 6 shooter to return fire?

[David_Bowie=GOD]

Haha you know, as much as I like Neil Diamond, I think he should have just kept this one to himself. Kind of makes a bad image of him. Not because he was in a gang, but because the "shooting" was a pellet gun.