Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 56.5 million records in the United States, making him one of the best-selling musicians in the country. Diamond has written and recorded ten singles that reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée" Read more on Last.fm

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 56.5 million records in the United States, making him one of the best-selling musicians in the country. Diamond has written and recorded ten singles that reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (co-written with Marilyn Bergman and performed with Barbra Streisand), "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight" (co-written with Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach). Thirty-eight of his songs have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, including "Sweet Caroline". He also made his film debut in the 1980 musical drama "The Jazz Singer". Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. He received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. Studio albums The Feel of Neil Diamond (1966) Just for You (1967) Velvet Gloves and Spit (1968) Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (1969) Touching You, Touching Me (1969) Tap Root Manuscript (1970) Stones (1971) Moods (1972) Serenade (1974) Beautiful Noise (1976) I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight (1977) You Don't Bring Me Flowers (1978) September Morn (1979) On the Way to the Sky (1981) Heartlight (1982) Primitive (1984) Headed for the Future (1986) The Best Years of Our Lives (1988) Lovescape (1991) The Christmas Album (1992) Up on the Roof: Songs from the Brill Building (1993) The Christmas Album, Volume II (1994) Tennessee Moon (1996) The Movie Album: As Time Goes By (1998) Three Chord Opera (2001) 12 Songs (2005) Home Before Dark (2008) A Cherry Cherry Christmas (2009) Dreams (2010) Melody Road (2014) Acoustic Christmas (2016) Classic Diamonds (2020) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.