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Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 56.5 million records in the US alone, making him one of the best-selling musicians in history.
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Born 24 January 1941 · Q294531
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“s disease. Diamond, who turns 77 on Wednesday, cancelled his March tour dates for Australia and New Zealand on medical advice. The Solitary Man singer was midway through his 50th anniversary tour. In a statement he said he took the decision”
“For me, this was the ultimate bar mitzvah.”
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“I vowed never to get involved in a movie again unless I had complete control.”
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The Guardian: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical review – finally, a jukebox musical that really works
The Guardian: ‘His chords are like sheets of diamond ice’: the beguiling psych-folk of late cult songwriter Ed Askew
Wild at Heart, the third and final album of material Diamond recorded with Rick Rubin as producer was released
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Released album “Wild at Heart”.
The Guardian: Song Sung Blue review – Neil Diamond tribute act gets sweet treat of movie thanks to Jackman and Hudson
The Guardian: Neil Diamond on living with Parkinson’s disease: ‘I was just not ready to accept it’
Released album “A Neil Diamond Christmas”.
Diamond sang "Sweet Caroline" during the 7th-inning stretch of a Red Sox game at Fenway Park
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Including 110 unreleased tracks, an unreleased album, and archival videos
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Released album “Classic Diamonds”.
The Guardian: Neil Diamond's teenage obsessions: 'The Brooklyn Dodgers betrayed me and broke my heart'
Diamond posted a video to YouTube playing "Sweet Caroline" with slightly modified lyrics ("
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Diamond gave a rare performance at the Keep Memory Alive Power of Love Gala at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, where he was being honored
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His 1969 signature song "Sweet Caroline" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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Diamond and his wife, Katie, made a surprise visit to the Incident Command post in Basalt, Colorado, near Diamond's home, to thank firefighters and their families for efforts to contain the Lake Christine Fire, which beg
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Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (2018).
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The Guardian: Neil Diamond retires from touring after Parkinson’s diagnosis
“s disease. Tour dates on the final leg of Diamond”
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The Guardian: It's Christmas! The best festive songs, chosen by Slade, Neil Diamond, the Waitresses and more
Released album “Acoustic Christmas”.
The Guardian: Neil Diamond review – a show so smooth it could be on rails
The Guardian: Neil Diamond: Melody Road review – schmaltzy but well-crafted honeymoon album
Released album “Melody Road”.
Capitol Records announced, via a flyer included with Diamond's latest greatest hits compilations, All-Time Greatest Hits, which charted at 15 on the Billboard 200, that his next album, Melody Road, which was to be produc
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Released album “All‐Time Greatest Hits”.
Released album “The Classic Christmas Album”.
Diamond made an unannounced appearance at Fenway Park to sing "Sweet Caroline" during the 7th inning
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Released album “Alle 40 Goed”.
Diamond received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2012).
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Diamond married Katie McNeil
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Released album “Favorites From Hot August Night”.
Released album “The Very Best of Neil Diamond: The Original Studio Recordings”.
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2011).
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2011).
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Released album “The Bang Years: 1966–1968”.
Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City
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Was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018
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Diamond released the album Dreams, a collection of 14 interpretations of his favorite songs by artists from the rock era
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Released album “Dreams”.
Released album “Icon”.
Released A Cherry Cherry Christmas, his third album of holiday music
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Released album “A Cherry Cherry Christmas”.
Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (2009).
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Two nights before the 51st Annual Grammy Awards
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One year to the day of the first concert
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Diamond performed at Ohio State University while suffering from laryngitis
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Diamond played to an estimated 108,000 fans at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England on the Concert of a Lifetime Tour; technical problems, including the sound cutting out, marred the concert
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Released album “Home Before Dark”.
Sirius Satellite Radio started Neil Diamond Radio
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Diamond appeared on the roof of the
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Diamond made a surprise announcement in a big-screen broadcast at Fenway Park that he would be appearing there "live in concert" on August 23, 2008, as part of his world tour
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It was announced on the television show American Idol that Diamond would be a guest mentor to the remaining Idol contestants, who would sing Diamond songs for the broadcasts of April 29 and 30, 2008
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Diamond said he had written "Sweet Caroline" for Caroline Kennedy after seeing her on the cover of Life in an equestrian riding outfit, but in 2014 he said in an interview on the Today show that it was written for his th
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Diamond was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame
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Released album “12 Songs”.
In two editions: a standard 12-song release, and a special edition with two bonus tracks, including one featuring backing vocals by Brian Wilson
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Released album “Play Me: The Complete Uni Studio Recordings… Plus!”.
Released album “The Very Best of Neil Diamond”.
Released album “The Essential Neil Diamond”.
When he changed the lyric at the end from; "They're coming to America", to "Stand up for America
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Released album “Three Chord Opera”.
Neil Diamond appeared onstage with a Diamond tribute band, Super Diamond, surprising them before their show at House of Blues in Los Angeles
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Released album “Sweet Caroline 21 Greatest Hits”.
Released album “The Neil Diamond Collection - 36 All-Time Greatest Hits”.
Released album “The Neil Diamond Collection”.
Released album “Classic”.
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Neil Diamond”.
Released album “The Movie Album: As Time Goes By”.
Released album “Ultimate: 30 All Classics”.
Released album “The Best of The Movie Album”.
The Boston Red Sox began playing it at every home game, between the top and bottom of the 8th inning at Fenway Park
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Released album “Favorites”.
Released album “In My Lifetime”.
Released album “I Knew Love”.
Released album “Songs of the Heart”.
Released album “Pure Gold of Neil Diamond”.
Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
Released album “The Ultimate Neil Diamond”.
Released album “Tennessee Moon”.
Released album “Love Songs”.
Released album “The Christmas Album, Volume II”.
Released album “The Greatest Collection, Volume 1”.
Released album “The Complete Bang Recordings”.
Released album “The Greatest Collection, Volume 2”.
Released album “Greatest Hits Live”.
Released album “The Best of Neil Diamond”.
Released album “Solitary Man”.
Released album “Up on the Roof: Songs From the Brill Building”.
Released album “14 Favorite Love Songs”.
Released album “Gold”.
Diamond opened the Mark of the Quad Cities (now the Vibrant Arena at The MARK) with two shows on May 27th and 28th to crowds of 10,000 each night
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Released album “The Christmas Album”.
Released album “Glory Road - 1968 to 1972”.
Released album “The Greatest Hits 1966-1992”.
Released album “The Essential Diamond Collection”.
Released album “I Am...I Said”.
Released album “Neil Diamond: The Ultimate Collection”.
Released album “20 Golden Greats”.
Released album “Lovescape”.
Released album “16 Original World Hits”.
Released album “Neil Diamond: First Hits”.
Released album “The Collection”.
Released album “Play Me”.
Released album “The Best Years of Our Lives”.
Released album “The Very Best of”.
Headed for the Future, which reached number 20 on the Billboard 200
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But his concert tours continued to be big draws
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Released album “Headed for the Future”.
Released album “Diamonds: 24 Welterfolge”.
Released album “12 Greatest Hits, Vol. II”.
Released album “His Very Best”.
And into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011
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Released album “Primitive”.
Released album “Classics: The Early Years”.
Released album “Heartlight”.
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for The Jazz Singer (1981).
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Released album “On the Way to the Sky”.
Released album “September Morn”.
Released album “20 Diamond Hits”.
Diamond collapsed on stage in San Francisco and was taken to the hospital, where he endured a 12-hour operation to remove what turned out to be a tumor on his spine
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Released album “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”.
Released album “I’m Glad You’re Here With Me Tonight”.
Diamond released I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight, including "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", for which he wrote the music and collaborated on the lyric with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
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Released album “And the Singer Sings His Song”.
With an Australian tour, "The 'Thank You Australia' Concert", which was broadcast to 36 television outlets nationwide
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Released album “Beautiful Noise”.
Released album “20 Super Hits”.
Released Beautiful Noise, produced by Robbie Robertson of The Band
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Released album “His 12 Greatest Hits”.
Diamond released the album Serenade, from which "Longfellow Serenade" and "I've Been This Way Before" were issued as singles
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Released album “Serenade”.
Diamond switched labels again, returning to Columbia Records for a million-dollar-advance-per-album contract, about $7
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Released album “Double Gold”.
Released album “Moods”.
Released album “Do It!”.
Released album “Stones”.
Diamond played seven sold-out concerts at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles
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Released album “Tap Root Manuscript”.
Released album “Shilo”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Touching You, Touching Me”.
Released album “Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show”.
Diamond wed production assistant Marcia Murphey
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Released album “Velvet Gloves and Spit”.
Diamond was featured on the fourth episode of the detective drama Mannix as the 'featured' artist in a small underground club called 'The Bad Scene' and was interrupted during his singing by one of many fights that took
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Released album “Just for You”.
Released album “Neil Diamond’s “Greatest Hits””.
Released album “The Feel of Neil Diamond”.
Diamond signed a deal with Bert Berns's Bang Records, then a subsidiary of Atlantic
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Married his high-school sweetheart, Jaye Posner
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Diamond attended Abraham Lincoln High School where he joined the fencing team
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Born 1941-01-24.
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