David Wild, HE IS... I SAY: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE NEIL DIAMOND author: Mr. Media Interview

Image via WikipediaRolling Stone magazine staff writer David Wild has harbored a secret man crush for decades. Today, he will come out of the closet and fess up:

He’s in love with Neil Diamond.

Wild testifies to this forbidden love in a new sort-of biography, He Is… I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond, which is, at times, as much about Wild as it is about Diamond.

In fact, on the day of the book’s publication, Oct. 19, 2008, David blogged on The Huffington Post an essay titled, “How You Can Heal Our Troubled Economy: Buy My Book, Bitches.”

And strangely, the Dow rose that day.

You can LISTEN to this interview with DAVID WILD, author of HE IS... I SAY: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE NEIL DIAMOND, by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!

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Gene Simmons (1985)
frontman, KISS; star, “Gene Simmons Family Jewels”


John Denver (1984)
musician


Billy Powell (1983)
keyboard player, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington-Collins Band, Allen Collins Band


Chad Cherry
lead singer, The Last Vegas


Brian Raftery
author, “Don’t Stop Believin’”


Ashley Kahn
author, “Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece”


David Wild
author, He Is… I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond, Friends… ‘til the End: The One with All Ten Years, And the Grammy Goes To… , The Showrunners, Friends: The Official Companion Book, Heart Full of Soul (Taylor Hicks autobiography)


Billy Bob Thornton
Beautiful Door/Bad Santa


Katerina Graham
actress, singer, “Boyfriend’s Back”


Emanuel Jal
Sudanese hip-hop artist featuring in the documentary film War Child


Peter Salett
In the Ocean of the Stars, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Superbad, Role Models


Robbie Cavolina, and Ian McCrudden
Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer


Legs McNeil
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored History of the Porn Film Industry, Punk Magazine
Bob Gruen
John Lennon, The Clash, New York Dolls rock ‘n’ roll photographer



Mike Edison
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, High Times, Screw, Cheri, Main Event, Penthouse


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"I must've been smoking something when I said that."

-- Neil Diamond, upon being reminded by Spin magazine's David Marchese in the June 2008 issue that the singer said he once dreamt of doing as much musically as "Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Robert Frost." (But have any of those guys ever been a special guest on "American Idol"?)