Kelly Clarkson Loves Neil Diamond, The Green Monster

With resident lunatic Manny Ramirez being shipped to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the trade deadline, the Boston Red Sox have re-upped their insanity quotient thanks to Kelly Clarkson. In the video above the former American Idol winner is seen popping in and out of frame, wearing a backwards cap and singing (off-key, as Simon Cowell would note) along with the fans during Boston's ceremonial sing-along of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline." The two other women in the video are reportedly are known simply as "Jill and Kate" and have served as back-up singers for Clarkson in the past. Either Clarkson is really excited to have such awesome seats atop the Green Monster, or — as the Bosox faithful used to say of Manny and as Clive Davis can attest — it's just Kelly being Kelly.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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