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[[caption-width-right:350:Diamond in his [[TheSeventies 1970s]] heyday.]]

->''"What a beautiful noise\\
Coming into my room\\
And it's waiting for me\\
Just to give it a tune."''
-->-- "'''Beautiful Noise'''"

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) made his debut as a SingerSongwriter in the [[TheSixties mid-Sixties]], with such hits as "Cherry Cherry", "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon", and "Sweet Caroline". Diamond also had a massive hit with 1972 concert album ''Hot August Night''. He has revived his career many times, starting with the successful soundtrack album from the failed movie ''Literature/JonathanLivingstonSeagull''. The momentum that had run out by the beginning of TheEighties was given new force with the song "Heartlight", which was rejected from the soundtrack of the movie ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' but was accepted by millions of fans.

Diamond faded a bit in TheNineties but still has a following.

Elected to the UsefulNotes/SongwritersHallOfFame in 1984 and the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame in 2011.

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!!Album discography (excluding compilations):
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[[folder:Studio albums]]
* ''The Feel of Neil Diamond'' (1966)
* ''Just for You'' (1967)
* ''Velvet Gloves and Spit'' (1968)
* ''Music/BrotherLovesTravelingSalvationShow'' (1969)[[note]]Reissued as ''Sweet Caroline'' after that song was added to the album[[/note]]
* ''Touching You, Touching Me'' (1969)
* ''Tap Root Manuscript'' (1970)
* ''Stones'' (1971)
* ''Moods'' (1972)
* ''Rainbow'' (his first CoverAlbum) (1973) - this is a compilation of covers that appeared on his Uni Records albums.
* ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull'' soundtrack album (1973)
* ''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)
* ''Film/TheJazzSinger'' soundtrack album (1980)
* ''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'' (his second CoverAlbum) (1993)
* ''Tennessee Moon'' (1995)
* ''The Movie Album: As Time Goes By'' (his third CoverAlbum) (1998)
* ''Three Chord Opera'' (2001)
* ''12 Songs'' (2005)
* ''Home Before Dark'' (2008)
* ''A Cherry Cherry Christmas'' (2009)
* ''Dreams'' (his fourth CoverAlbum[[note]]unless you count his version of "I'm A Believer", which he wrote for Music/TheMonkees[[/note]]) (2010)
* ''Melody Road'' (2014)
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[[folder:Live albums]]
* ''Gold: Recorded Live at the Troubadour'' (1970)
* ''Hot August Night'' (1972)
* ''Love at the Greek'' (1977)
* ''Hot August Night II'' (1987)
* ''Live in America'' (1994)
* ''Stages: Performances 1970-2002'' (2003)
* ''Hot August Night/NYC'' (2009)
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!!Film and TV appearances:
* ''Series/{{Mannix}}'' (1 episode, 1969) as Himself
* ''Film/TheLastWaltz'' (1978) as Himself
* ''Film/TheJazzSinger'' (1980) as Jess Robin
* ''[[Film/LostAndFound1999 Lost & Found]]'' (1999) as Himself
* ''Film/SavingSilverman'' (2001) as Himself
* ''Keeping Up with the Steins'' (2006) as Himself

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!!"They're troping to America, today":

* BrooklynRage: Diamond was born and raised in Brooklyn.
* ChristmasSongs: [[EveryoneIsChristianAtChristmas Despite being Jewish]], Diamond has released three albums of these (though he ended ''A Cherry Cherry Christmas'' with a CoverVersion of Creator/AdamSandler's "The Chanukah Song").
* ConceptAlbum: The second side of ''Tap Root Manuscript'' is a suite of [[WorldMusic African-themed songs]].
* CoverAlbum: As noted in the discography, he's released four of them. Also, his 1971 album ''Stones'' comes close to this trope, since it has only two originals (the TitleTrack and "I Am... I Said") mixed with covers.
* DeadSparks: "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", which was a hit duet between Diamond and Music/BarbraStreisand in 1978.
* DontThinkFeel: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQvzxcl9W-I "Don't Think, Feel"]], appropriately enough.
* DrowningMySorrows: "Red Red Wine" and "Cracklin' Rosie."
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Like fellow 1970s SoftRock singer-songwriter Music/CaroleKing, Neil Diamond started out as a musician in the Brill Building pop/rock genre, much like Music/PaulAnka, Music/BobbyDarin, and [[Music/NeilSedaka a certain other Neil]][[note]] Coincidentally, Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka would also write soft rock songs later in their career[[/note]]. He was also in a duo with his high school friend known as Neil and Jack.
* FatalAttractor: The singer in "Solitary Man" seems to be very unlucky in love and is currently unattached.
* GenreRoulette: He has recorded music in many genres including pop, rock, country, showtunes, folk, folk-rock, etc. throughout his career.
* IAmSong: "I Am... I Said."
* ImaginaryFriend: "Shilo."
* IsntItIronic: Possibly subverted with "Sweet Caroline". This song sounds like a romantic love ballad, but on two occasions, Diamond stated that he had written it for Caroline Kennedy, then five years old at the time. However, in 2014, Diamond gave a different account, stating that it was about his then-wife Marcia, but the name "Caroline" was substituted to fit the meter.
* ListSong: "Done Too Soon", ostensibly a meditation on notable people who died young, though the presence of Creator/BusterKeaton (died at 70) and [[UsefulNotes/{{Vietnam}} Ho Chi Minh]] (died at 79) stretches the definition a bit.
* LoveNostalgiaSong: "If You Know What I Mean."
-->Now, here's to the songs we used to sing
-->And here's to the times we used to know,
-->It's hard to hold them in our arms again, but
-->Hard to let them go...
-->Can you hear 'em, babe?
-->Can you hear 'em, babe?
-->It was another time, it was another place,
-->Do you remember it, babe?
* LocationSong: "Kentucky Woman" celebrates the singer's sweetheart from that state.
* NonActorVehicle: He starred in the 1980 remake of ''Film/TheJazzSinger'', which was critically-reviled but a modest hit at the box office, and the soundtrack birthed three Top 10 hits ("America", "Love on the Rocks", "Hello Again").
* OdeToSobriety: "The Pot Smoker's Song" is of the "deconstructed ode to intoxication" variety: Neil sings a commercial-jingle-esque chorus extolling the pleasures of Marijuana use, while the verses use SpokenWordInMusic clips of young people in rehab to illustrate that it can lead to use of harder drugs.
* PatrioticFervor: "America."
* PopStarComposer: His soundtrack for ''Literature/JonathanLivingstonSeagull'' was a much bigger hit than the movie.
* PreacherMan: "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show."
* PrefersGoingBarefoot: "Two Bit Manchild" contains the line "Ain't got no eye for a tight pair of shoes when my bare feet'll do."
* RepurposedPopSong: "Sweet Caroline" is well known today for its use at various sporting events (most notably [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Boston Red Sox]] home games), where it rarely fails to get the fans out of their seats and singing along.
* WolverinePublicity: An odd case of a popular artist using a less-well-known artist for this. There's a prominent "Produced by Robbie Robertson" credit on the cover of ''Beautiful Noise''. Instead of helping sales, Diamond did this to help his artistic reputation, since Music/TheBand was one of the most critically acclaimed outfits of that era, so getting their guitarist/songwriter to produce his album was a big coup for Diamond.
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