Ursul de Geer

	Neil started the show by singing If There Were No Dreams. He then joined host Ursul de Geer for the interview. Ursul - "Yes they will get another" (song) Mr Diamond, it is a great honour ……."
	Neil talked about the usual sort of things. Spoke about thinking of changing his name to Noah Kominsky "But I got nervous about that one …"
	Ursul spoke about the lyrics of I Am I Said and asked what was "froggy" about Neil? Neil's answer was that his voice was always a bit froggy! He went on to speak about his childhood in Brooklyn. Ursul brought up Cyrano. He asked why Neil thought he was similar to Cyrano because there was nothing wrong with HIS nose!
	Neil went on to say "And Cyrano was a misfit also - but he was a poet and he was a great swordsman …" and explained the link there.
	After speaking about his early career, Ursul went on to say that Neil had been in analysis several years previously and asked what had he discovered about himself. Neil spoke about going to the analyst and being asked about his dreams. He said he could never remember his dreams - maybe only one in twenty years which "I'll tell you if you want to know " - and then he went on to say -
	"I had a dream and it was two years ago and I remember it very clearly because it was a very frightening dream. I woke up in the middle of the night. I'd had a dream that there was terrible calamity in California and it was some kind of an earthquake and houses were falling down and it was terrible and it woke me up. I couldn't fall asleep so I wrote the whole dream down on a piece of paper and I still couldn't sleep so I decided to watch the television for a little while and I turned it on and they were announcing that there was a giant earthquake in San Francisco. So this was my one dream. I'm afraid to have any dreams anymore. So instead of telling my therapist what my dreams were we listened to my lyrics …….. "
	There was then talk about the White House - meeting the Reagans and just saying Hello and Goodbye as they passed along. He then went on to speak about meeting and singing for Princess Diana. He told about her coming to ask him to dance. He said she asked him ..... "Is it proper for a lady to ask a gentleman to dance?" Ursul asked if she whispered "You don't Bring Me Flowers" in his ear whilst they were dancing. Neil laughed and said, no, she was funny and they had a very funny conversation. It was a memorable event for him.
	Ursul said people were always impersonating Neil. There was then film of an impersonator in a Dutch talent show and then film of little boy lip synching to Neil's America in another competition. Neil sat watching and agreed "He's good"
	The boy was sitting in the audience and as the film finished Neil pointed to the boy and said - "I want his hair again." The boy came up on stage to meet Neil.

Neil was then asked to perform his second song - Don't Turn Around