Neil Diamond visited Boston
in the days following the marathon bombings and left convinced he should do
something to help.
"I was moved by the unity and the attitude of the
people in Boston ,"
Diamond told Billboard. "And that's really all a songwriter needs, is to be
inspired. It doesn't happen very often but when it does you have to follow that
muse and I did."
The result is "The Freedom Song (They'll Never Take Us
Down)," a new patriotically themed song Diamond will release through
iTunes and Amazon on July 2. All proceeds from the song will go to benefit the
Boston One Fund and The Wounded Warriors Project.
Diamond watched coverage of the April 15 bombings unfold
from afar, then visited the city the following Saturday. The Red Sox, the
city's Major League Baseball franchise, adopted the 72-year-old singer's hit
"Sweet Caroline" as an eighth-inning anthem some time ago and had
invited him to perform it live.
Diamond returned home and began work on "The Freedom
Song." He said in a phone interview it took about six weeks to write and
record.
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