David Wild, HE IS... I SAY: NEIL DIAMOND, author, Rolling Stone editor: Mr. Media Interview

Summary: David Wild is a music and TV writer and critic, and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. Growing up in New Jersey in the ’60s and ’70s, David Wild found his childhood shaped by the music of Neil Diamond—who, as he says, “was big in Jersey well before Bruce Springsteen became The Boss.” Later, as a rock critic for Rolling Stone, he remained a staunch admirer while his fellow music writers dismissed Diamond as terminally unhip. When Wild first interviewed him for the magazine, Diamond posed the question that would later become the articl