The latest musical biopic is not a gleaming hagiography seeking to lionize the glamorous lives of rock stars or fawning fan service mythologizing their lavish escapades. Instead, Song Sung Blue, from ...

Chris Stapleton’s inescapable rendition of “Tennessee Whiskey” has become the first country song to gain a double diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The ...

At least on paper, Chris Stapleton's 2015 version of the oldie "Tennessee Whiskey" is now the most popular country song of all time. According to a press release from Stapleton's label MCA, "Tennessee ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Song Sung Blue, a music drama starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in a true story about a ...

Actor Hugh Jackman recently received a gift that was so good, so good, so good. From: Neil Diamond. Jackman portrays real-life Milwaukee Neil Diamond impersonator – err, interpreter (IYKYK) – Mike ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Song Sung Blue, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson’s musical drama about a real-life Neil Diamond ...

With the holiday release of Song Sung Blue, writer/director Craig Brewer had already received the ultimate glowing review. Based on the Greg Kohs documentary of the same name about a Neil Diamond ...

A divisive reaction for 2025's most heartwarming film. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I was not in the room with him, but I had ...

During a dinner party one evening at Norman Lear’s home during the late 1970s, Neil Diamond asked the television producer if he was working on anything new. At the time, Lear was about to start on a ...

The story of Mike and Claire Sardina – a struggling husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute act from Milwaukee – was never the stuff of Hollywood movies. Unfortunately, it’s been made into one. Hugh ...

Hugh Jackman has no shortage of Neil Diamond favorites – and at least three of them helped shape his performance in “Song Sung Blue.” Liz Caplan, the vocal coach and consultant who worked with Jackman ...

“Song Sung Blue” stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as real-life Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, who made a local name for themselves with their Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder.