This Neil Diamond Album Cover

Alright, stay with me now, cause this concept might blow your mind:

Look at the album cover very carefully, and while you're doing so, keep this in mind:

This guy on the album cover is rocking out to music by Neil Diamond. 

He's so overcome by the music, he's playing air-guitar, closing his eyes and feeling every note, every beat of music...

...of music by Neil Diamond.

That is one of the reasons why I love this album cover. The other being the way I presume the album cover was chosen.

I picture a coked up Diamond, arriving at the Los Angeles record company at 1pm for a 10am meeting. He's wearing a fur coat, sun glasses, and has a 20year old asian girl by his side he calls Ling Ling.

His agent directs Diamond (glasses still on), to a room where 50 photos from the concert are laid out on a table. He is to choose the cover. While he's looking through the photos, the photographer, as a joke, shows him this one photo where it looks like he's playing air-guitar with his penis. "Hey Neil look at this one!"

Diamond pulls his glasses down to get a better look.

"That's the one," Diamond says. "and we'll call it Hot August Night. Let's get out of here Ling Ling." For the next two hours, Diamond and Ling do drugs and make love numerous times in Diamond's Cadillac which was still parked outside the record studio.

(I must reiterate: The guy on the album cover is listening to fucking Neil Diamond.)