Done Too Soon - Live At The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles/1972

In this song of mortality, Diamond lists various famous people who have passed on, including Jesus Christ, John Wilkes Booth and Buster Keaton. Diamond told David Wild in He Is...I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond: "It was kind of esoteric, especially at that time. But it's just me trying to say something a little different, just try and jog something in a person's memory, or to elicit a reaction. That's what my job is, to do something a little bit different, and yet something that's me and something that's you."

R.E.M. used this technique of listing a bunch of famous people in the lyrics for their 1987 hit "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)."