Editing Neil Diamond (section)

==Personal life==

Diamond has been married three times. In 1963, he married his high-school sweetheart, Jaye Posner, <!-- not a typo, her name is Jaye! -->who had become a schoolteacher. They had two daughters.<ref name = us2012 /> The couple separated in 1967<ref name=people1996 /> and divorced in 1969.<ref name=us2012>{{cite journal|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/neil-diamond-71-marries-his-manager-42-2012224|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423193955/https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/neil-diamond-71-marries-his-manager-42-2012224|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 23, 2012| title=Neil Diamond, 71, Marries His Manager, 42|date= April 22, 2012|journal = [[Us Weekly]]}}</ref>

On December 5, 1969, Diamond married production assistant Marcia Murphey.<ref name = us2012 /> They had two sons.<ref name = us2012 /> The marriage ended in 1994<ref name = us2012 /> or 1995.<ref name = people1996>{{cite journal|journal=[[People (magazine)|People]] |url=http://people.com/people/article/0,,20141128,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512110102/http://people.com/people/article/0,,20141128,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 12, 2012| title= Period of Change| first= Karen S | last= Schneider| date= April 29, 1996| quote = The sadness permeating much of the album is evoked not only by Diamond's artistic expression but by his very real sense of loss since the end last year of his 25-year-marriage to Marcia Murphey, 54.}}</ref>

In 1996, Diamond began a relationship with Australian Rae Farley after the two met in [[Brisbane]], [[Australia]]. The songs on ''[[Home Before Dark]]'' were written and composed during his struggle with chronic back pain.<ref name="entertainment.timesonline.co.uk">{{cite news | url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4220719.ece | title=Neil Diamond Heads To Glastonbury: Neil Diamond is a bigger hit than ever — at the darkest time of his life | date=June 27, 2008 | first=Andrew | last=Billen | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615101427/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4220719.ece | archive-date=June 15, 2011 | location=London | work=[[The Times]] | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

On September 7, 2011, in a message on Twitter, the 70-year-old Diamond announced his engagement to the 41-year-old [[Katie McNeil Diamond|Katie McNeil]]. The couple married in front of family and close friends in Los Angeles in 2012.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://music.yahoo.com/news/neil-diamond-married-154058232.html|title=Neil Diamond gets married!|publisher=Access Hollywood via Yahoo News|date=April 22, 2012|access-date=April 22, 2012}}</ref> In addition to serving as Diamond's manager, McNeil produced the documentary ''Neil Diamond: Hot August Nights NYC''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fernandez |first1=Sofia M. |title=Neil Diamond Engaged to Manager Katie McNeil |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/neil-diamond-engaged-manager-katie-232318/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=April 7, 2022 |date=September 7, 2011}}</ref> Diamond said that his 2014 album ''Melody Road'' was fueled by their relationship, explaining:
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There's no better inspiration or motivation for work than being in love. It's what you dream of as a creative person. I was able to complete this album—start it, write it and complete it—under the spell of love, and I think it shows somehow.<ref name="BB/Melody Road">{{cite news|title=Neil Diamond on His Walk Down 'Melody Road:' 'I Was...Under the Spell Of Love'|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/neil-diamond-on-his-walk-down-melody-road-i-wasunder-the-spell-of-love-6289429/|access-date=April 7, 2022|publisher= Billboard|date=October 22, 2014}}</ref>
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