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DVD cover picture is not from the movie

posted 17 years ago by suze-4
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In his pose with the outstretched right arm, Neil Diamond looks younger and has more hair than he had in the movie. It looks like a picture of him from around 1970, ten years before. There is no similar shot in the movie. At the end when they do a freeze frame of him singing America, the pose is very different from the cover.

I was trying to find what show this picture was from. Looking at the videos available online, it is most similar to the BBC concert in the red shirt, around 1972.

I wondered if any fans would know where the picture came from (I realize it was used in the original album too) and why they used a younger picture of him. I realize the chance of anyone who knows the answer reading this post is slim to none, but it's bothering me that they used an old concert picture .... as if they didn't like the way he looked in 1980. I don't get it at all.

[–] darrellkaiser1985 17 years ago

Merry Christmas.
http://www.photofeatures.com/neildiamond/images/prevs/d0672004a.jpg

[–] pdxgirl503 15 years ago

I had always thought that was a much older photo, thanks for that!

- Ryan

[–] LaLaLandFan1970 8 years ago

Neil does do the exact cover pose in AMERICA at end of movie at approx 1:51:58. On the first time he sings "Today" after the "My country ''tis of thee" section. It's very short and fast and he doesn't hold it. The camera is a little more behind him the the poster pic so it doesn't look profile like the cover art. But he does do it exactly. Obviously the photographer that must have taken the pic that was used by an artist to recreate for the cover art was on the side in the wings of the stage taking publicity stills while the film camera was behind him.