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- Lorne
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Diana Ayoub, Ottawa woman who inspired 1957 Anka hit, dies at age 83
Diana Ayoub, the Ottawa woman who inspired Paul Anka's 1957 hit Diana when the two were still teenagers, has died. She was 83.
Despite the song's opening line, "I'm so young and you're so old," Ayoub was barely 18 when Anka, then nearly 16, recorded it in New York. Diana would top the charts for weeks, selling millions of copies and making Anka a household name.
"I didn't expect it to be that huge," Ayoub told CBC four decades later. "It was all over the world, you know, I could go nowhere. I was followed by peeping toms, it was pretty wild."
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Re: Diana Ayoub, Ottawa woman who inspired 1957 Anka hit, dies at age 83
It's an interesting coincidence. A few days ago I wrote the song "Remember Diana" in my playlist.
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