Editor’s Note: A little extra piece this week from Andy, as a small tribute to the people of Boston.
“Hands touching hands”
Since 1999 the Boston Red Sox have played Neil Diamond’s classic Sweet Caroline during every game at Fenway Park.
“Reachin’ out”
The sing-along song has become such a Fenway staple that the Red Sox turn off the sound during the most popular parts as fans know the words off by heart.
“Touchin’ me”
Neil Diamond’s inspiration for the song came from a photograph of the then nine-year-old Caroline Kennedy that the singer saw in a magazine while staying at a hotel in Memphis. He wrote the song in an hour. It changed his life. Reignited his career and sold a million copies in the US.
“Touchin’ you”
Today, Sweet Caroline is in every bar you go to, every voice you hear, and it doesn’t matter if the Red Sox are winning, hurting, triumphant or reeling, when you’re down, and you sing it, it will lift you up. It’s Boston’s theme song.
“Sweet Caroline”
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About the Author
After too many years as season ticket holder at Parkhead, Andy Todd renounced the SPL three years ago to support Queens Park. One team is a rank bunch of amateurs who play in a state of the art stadium and the other is…(I think we can all see where this is going).
Andy has been performing comedy for 18 months but is currently ‘between gigs’ while he writes a book on Scottish property law to be published in Summer 2012. Its potential audience will be less than 300 but his mum will be very proud.
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