In 1972, Neil Diamond's song, "I Am, I Said" prevented me from suicide. For years thereafter, because I have bipolar disorder (manic depression) I had manic episodes where I was convinced that Neil Diamond was Jesus Christ and I was "supposed" to be his "bride." In 1980, I took off to Los Angeles, believing that he would meet me to marry me.
I was a "stalker" before that term had been coined. I walked the streets of LA for three months, trying to find Neil. I even had my name changed with the Social Security Administration so my last name was "Diamond."
I charged over $1500 to Neil's production company that was in the proccess of filming "The Jazz Singer" for telegrams to radio stations all over the country announcing that Jesus Christ had finally found his "bride" and that the marriage to save all of humanity was about to take place soon.
These episodes reoccurred several times until 2003, and the Delilah Radio Show. Around Thanksgiving that year, Delilah had a show devoted to something you were thankful about. I wrote in and told her how grateful I was that Neil's song had deterred me from suicide.
About six weeks later, during Delilah's Christmas show with Neil Diamond, she called and asked if I wanted to share my story on the air. When she began the phone conversation, suddenly, Neil Diamond was talking in my ear saying, "You've done me great honor ... by sharing this story and I love you for it"!
I was so stunned, I didn't know what to say, and told Delilah, "I don't know how to thank you for this"! She replied, "Pay it forward."
I have since never had another manic episode whereby Neil was the "object" of my thought disorder.
So, because of the Delilah show and her magnificent Christmas gift of allowing me to personally talk to Neil, I've been healed of my psychotic delusions about him. What greater Christmas gift could there possibly be? For Neil to say "I love you," on national radio?
So, I am continually grateful to Delilah for her wisdom and grace to give me the best Christmas present I could ever have received.
It is in Vinyl Discs' unique sound that records stores are hurrying to fill their shelves with vinyl discs. The crackling sound that is quite appealing to people plus the nostalgic bearing that tends to bear more value compared to CDs and DVDs.
Vinyl labels are surprisingly increasing their production due to increase orders as far as from Eastern Europe.
We all know that East European Countries had earned their freedom just recently and they are enjoying a lot of vinyl records that they had missed for the last 4 decades because of Soviet Union's Iron Curtain Rule. Hence, their hunger on vinyl discs from the West is so strong.
As you can see there is now a surging demand of vinyl records from all over the world. One of the best features among vinyl discs is that they can't be pirated. More or less they are pirate proof, unless if you own a big vinyl factory then you can easily make some copies of it. But how would you be able to have the master discs. Unlike in DVDs and CDs you can make a master disc out from ordinary copies much more on pirated ones.
The Vinyl revival, push up sales that constitutes more revenues to people who manufactured them from the end of the line. CDs and DVDs are more vulnerable to hackers and pirates because they are made in digital format unlike Vinyl discs which is made out of commonsense.
Many jump in the bandwagon to procure vinyl discs from online record stores to garage sales who no longer wanted their vinyl merchandise. Anyway it is a soothing story because after all the vinyl records that we inherit from our Grand Dads will not be thrown to the trash bins.
