YOU PROBABLY THINK THE SONG IS ABOUT YOU: So, as it turns out, Neil Diamond's inspiration for "Sweet Caroline" was Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, who was not yet twelve years old at the time when Diamond started thinking about hands touching hands, reaching out, touching him, touching her. Of course, that's probably less creepy than the last explanation I heard (video).
For more, see this 2004 Rolling Stone list of songs and their inspirations, to which we can also add Alice Brock, an artist and gallery owner in Provincetown, Mass., but who used to own a restaurant in Great Barrington, just a half-a-mile from the railroad track ....
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