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On this date in 2000 Neil sang The Star Spangled Banner at the Colorado University spring graduation ceremonies in Boulder, Colorado
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SIRIUS presents the Neil Diamond
Home Before Dark Sweepstakes!
SIRIUS Satellite Radio is giving you the opportunity to see Neil Diamond LIVE in concert! Enter for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Neil Diamond in the town of your choice at select US tour dates. Plus, one lucky grand prize winner and guest will receive a trip to London, England, to see Neil Diamond on June 27th...FRONT ROW!
To enter, go to www.sirius.com/neildiamondradio
SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO TO PRESENT AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH NEIL DIAMOND ON
"NEIL DIAMOND RADIO" CHANNEL
SIRIUS Satellite Radio will broadcast an up-close and personal interview with legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond on his Neil Diamond Radio channel available exclusively on SIRIUS.
"A Conversation with...Neil Diamond" will premiere on Neil Diamond Radio on SIRIUS channel 3, today, May 9th at 5 pm. Additional encores will air on Mother's Day, May 11th at 12 noon, 6 pm and 9 pm, and Monday, May 12th at 9 am and 3 pm (all times Eastern). For more information, please visit www.sirius.com.
During the interview, Diamond will discuss his work with producer Rick Rubin on his latest album, Home Before Dark. He will also talk about growing up in Brooklyn, getting his first guitar and classic songs such as "I Am...I Said" and new songs from his latest album.
The Neil Diamond Radio channel on SIRIUS launched on May 2, 2008 for a limited engagement, offering non-stop Neil Diamond music and stories from a career spanning four decades.
In addition to his own SIRIUS channel and new album release, Diamond will also return to concert stages this summer for a 37-city North American tour starting in July. For tour dates and more information about Diamond's new album, Home Before Dark, go to www.neildiamond.com..
Neil Diamond Radio continues SIRIUS' tradition of creating exclusive limited run artist-branded channels dedicated to iconic musicians. SIRIUS has previously offered limited run channels such as Rolling Stones Radio, E Street Radio, JAY-Z Nation, Duran Duran's Red Carpet Radio and Radio R.E.M., among many others.
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Still Shirty After All These Years
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A bronze statuette stands on top of a cabinet, depicting a figure in a wide-collared shirt unbuttoned to the chest, a big blow-dried sweep of hair with emphatic sideburns, beautifully angled eyebrows and a rictus grin. This is a typical image of Neil Diamond - macho, cheesy, a guitar man in a florid shirt....
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May 11, 2008 @ 01:00 PM
Diamond is forever
(Scotland on Sunday)
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NOT so very long ago, the only contact with Neil Diamond most young people would admit to was when their drunken uncle belted out 'Cracklin' Rosie' at family gatherings. But suddenly ? at the age of 67 ? the rasping singer, known as the Jewish Elvis, has become achingly hip. Like Dolly Parton and Tony Bennett, Diamond, who has sold 120 million records worldwide, has crossed over from kitsch to cool....
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May 10, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
Album: Neil Diamond, Home Before Dark (Columbia)
(The Independent - UK)
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You know time has caught up with you when you are mentally preparing your review of Scroobius Pip when your editor tells you that, instead, you have been earmarked for the new Neil Diamond....
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May 10, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
SONGS SUNG BLUE
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Fame, riches, women ... Neil Diamond has had it all, but it took an album about loss to make him cool....
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May 10, 2008 @ 01:00 PM
NEIL DIAMOND: Home Before Dark
(McClatchy-Tribune - posted at Roanoke.com)
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If "12 Songs," Neil Diamond's striking 2005 collaboration with producer Rick Rubin, renewed your love of Diamond's songwriting, the pair's follow-up, "Home Before Dark," is a must-have....
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May 9, 2008 @ 10:00 PM
Feel the noise
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Welcome to Feel the Noise, a weekly feature on CBCNews.ca in which two music writers throw down on a new album.
Last week, CBCNews.ca writers Sarah Liss and Andre Mayer faced off on Madonna; this week, they debate the virtues of Neil Diamond?s Home Before Dark....
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May 9, 2008 @ 03:00 PM
CBS Sunday Morning to Feature Neil Diamond at The Bitter End
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NEIL DIAMOND - The performer returns to his roots, performing at the legendary Bitter End in New York City's Greenwich Village. Correspondent Anthony Mason takes in the show....
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May 9, 2008 @ 11:00 AM
NEIL DIAMOND: I'M TOO MUCH OF A LONER
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NEIL Diamond is booked to perform at Glastonbury this year and no, he is not the novelty act. His appearance at one of the world's most popular festivals is not meant to be ironic or post-ironic or satirical or a joke. Neil Diamond has been invited to Somerset on merit.
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May 9, 2008 @ 03:00 AM
Neil Diamond breaks out the goods in NYC
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Neil Diamond played an intimate little gig at the NYC West Village venue The Bitter End on last night, May 7. He performed classic songs set mixed with new songs from his latest album, Home Before Dark, which I'm listening to as I write this....
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May 8, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
SIRIUS to Present an In-Depth Interview with Neil Diamond
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SIRIUS will broadcast an up-close and personal interview with legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond on his Neil Diamond Radio channel available exclusively on SIRIUS....
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May 8, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Secret Show: Neil Diamond Plays The Bitter End
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WNEW.com's own Kristen was able to make her way into the suprise Neil Diamond show at New York's The Bitter End last night, braving the crowds who started turning out after news of the MySpace Secret Show broke late yesterday. One of only 150 people who got in, Kristen and the other lucky few got treated to a seven-song set of classics including Kentucky Woman, and of course, Sweet Caroline....
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May 8, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
Neil Diamond: Home Before Dark review
(Times Online - UK)
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"Follow that!" If there are two words that will haunt Neil Diamond to the grave, it'll probably be the ones he was said to have directed at Bob Dylan as Diamond walked offstage at the Band's legendary 1976 farewell show the Last Waltz. That the episode has assumed such notoriety speaks volumes about the way music fans once perceived Diamond. What he lacked in self-awareness, he appeared to make up for in self-regard....
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May 8, 2008 @ 01:00 PM
Neil Diamond On Track For First No. 1 Album Ever
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Forty-one years after he first appeared on The Billboard 200, Neil Diamond looks to be on course to earn his first No. 1 album ever on next week's chart as first-day sales of "Home Before Dark" (Columbia) lead the Nielsen SoundScan Building chart released May 7....
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May 7, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
Diamond embarks on emotional journey of rediscovery
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Super-producer Rick Rubin kickstarted Johnny Cash's late-era comeback by pairing him with some red-hot source material and session players that included everyone from Tom Petty to Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
For Neil Diamond's surprise 2005 turn, 12 Songs, Rubin let the Brooklyn bard speak for himself. The results were no less authentic. 12 Songs wasn't nearly as dramatic as Cash's star turns with Rubin, but the outing was a fine showcase for Diamond's tough-love songs, which on recent recordings had begun to become parodies of themselves....
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May 7, 2008 @ 09:00 AM
Neil Diamond Treats NYC To 'Secret Show'
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Neil Diamond is set to perform a free show at New York City's The Bitter End tonight (May 7) as part of the MySpace Music "Secret Shows" series....
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May 7, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
The Feel of Home
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Neil Diamond has had a hectic week. He played his arguably best-known song, "Sweet Caroline," on the roof of Jimmy Kimmel's show April 29, hopped to American Idol to perform "Pretty Amazing Grace" the next day and saw SIRIUS Satellite Radio launch an all-Neil Diamond channel two days after that....
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May 6, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
Neil Diamond: Home Before Dark
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Three years ago, with the release of "12 Songs," Neil Diamond reminded the world that under all the sequins he is a serious and often striking folk-rock songwriter....
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May 6, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
Diamond's new 'Home'
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By rights, Neil Diamond shouldn't have a lot left to prove. The 67-year-old singer grew up as a child of Tin Pan Alley before becoming one of the most commercially successful singer-songwriters of all time....
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May 6, 2008 @ 07:00 AM
Aiken Finds His 'Way'; Diamond Is Right at 'Home'
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Aiken may sing through gritted teeth, but Diamond, who found himself similarly adrift in schlock during his post-"Jazz Singer" years, always seemed to enjoy himself immensely. At least until he met producer Rick Rubin, who rescued Diamond from his rhinestone leisure-suited purgatory more than a decade after working similar magic on Johnny Cash....
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May 6, 2008 @ 07:00 AM
CD reviews: Neil Diamond...
(Dallas Morning News)
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DIAMOND'S DAY: Johnny Cash sealed the revamp of Neil Diamond's reputation with his 2000 album American III: Solitary Man, imbuing the title track - one of Mr. Diamond's best-known compositions - with the cool imprimatur only the Man in Black could provide....
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May 5, 2008 @ 07:00 PM
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When Neil Diamond changed record companies the first time, the first song he wrote was "Brooklyn Roads."
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