“AFTER MORE THAN 50 YEARS, HIS OWN SONG MADE HIM CRY AGAIN.” Neil Diamond didn’t expect to cry. He was just sitting there, quiet, listening as Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson brought Song Sung Blue back to life. But something shifted. Fifty-plus years of memories came rushing in at once. The good years. The hard ones. The parts he thought he had already put away. “I wasn’t ready,” he admitted later. His voice barely held. For once, he wasn’t guiding the emotion. He was inside it. Watching his own words come back through other voices felt comforting… and painfully real. Some songs don’t belong to you forever. They grow. And sometimes, they find you again.

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