![]() Minor gripes though for a night with this legendary songwriter. ![]() It’s a great night but my only gripes were the band seemed a little low in the mix, the unnecessary ten minute interlude where every member of the thirteen got a solo and the final song of Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show which while a good song is not ‘America’ with what he has ended most of the shows with on this tour. Sweet Caroline obviously stands out and the venue is like a giant Karaoke bar with 20,000 people belting it out.ĭiamond’s voice is still strong as is his stamina with a show of over two hours. There is no point picking any highlights as its hit after hit, singalong after singalong. Long-time fans mingled with a few young ‘uns and we were somewhere in the middle. It’s rare that I attend gigs now where I am one of the youngest but tonight’s the night. Clearly it’s the other bass player’s night off. Like Noah, Neil seems to have collected two of everything with his 13 piece backing band two guitarists, two keyboards, two drummers, two backing singers, two times two brass section and a lone bass player. So tonight it’s Neil Diamond on his 50th Anniversary tour. Clearly thought that hasn’t stopped two sold out shows at the behemoth that’s the O2. The secondary market has also contributed to these inflated prices. The flip side is there’s a price premium for that privilege. Given the spate of musical legends dying in the past few years I am making a conscious effort to see some of those that I have never seen before. Pretty good for someone who had planned on going into medicine. ![]() One of these performances was recorded and released as ‘Hot August Night’, a double album which many consider his finest work.įrom then on he continued to release Platinum albums and has never really experienced a slump in his popularity. He soon became dissatisfied with ‘Band Records’ and signed a new deal with ‘Uni Records’ releasing a string of hits over the late 60s and 70s including ‘Sweet Caroline’, a song he wrote in an hour in a Memphis hotel.įrom there his success only grew as he began to play back to back sold out concerts at huge venues. ![]() The success of the song helped to raise his profile and in 1966 he was able to sign his own record deal with Atlantic subsidiary ‘Bang Records’. Some of his biggest early successes as a songwriter came from writing for The Monkees, most notably their mega-hit ‘I’m a Believer’. However in his final year of university a music publisher offered him 50 dollars a week to write songs for them and the rest is history. He attended New York University on a fencing scholarship and his ultimate life ambition was a career in medicine, motivated by a desire to discover the cure to cancer after his Grandmother passed away from the disease. Growing up in Brooklyn, Neil didn’t immediately take to a career in music. ![]()
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