Neil Diamond - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: BBC Radio Theatre, London, Britain, 5-14-2008

Here's a Neil Diamond BBC concert from 2008.

Diamond has a curious history of BBC concerts. He did one in 1971, when he was already established as a songwriter for others but was still just starting to make his mark as a solo artist. Then, apparently, he didn't do another one until this one in 2008. Perhaps for most of those years he felt he was so famous that he didn't need the promotion of a free concert broadcast over the radio.

One might have thought Diamond was past his prime in 2008, but he had a late career resurgence. In 2005, he put out the studio album "12 Songs." It was produced by Rick Rubin, and it got good reviews, just like other careers revived by Rubin, most especially Johnny Cash. Then, in 2008, he released "Home Before Dark," which also was produced by Rubin. While neither were huge sellers, if you look at the crowd-sourced ratings at rateyourmusic.com, those two albums have the best ratings of any Diamond album since the early 1970s.

However, most of the songs performed here are classic hits from earlier in his career. The only three new songs were "Pretty Amazing Grace," "Home Before Dark," and "Man of God." Strangely, it seems he didn't have any banter between songs except for one time, before "Home Before Dark." And for that time, he couldn't stop talking, going for over five minutes. Note though that this album is probably edited down by the BBC to fit an hour-long time slot, so we don't know what songs and/or banter might be missing. 

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Beautiful Noise (Neil Diamond)
02 Hello Again (Neil Diamond)
03 Love on the Rocks (Neil Diamond)
04 Thank God for the Night Time (Neil Diamond)
05 Pretty Amazing Grace (Neil Diamond)
06 Home Before Dark (Neil Diamond)
07 Forever in Blue Jeans (Neil Diamond)
08 talk (Neil Diamond)
09 Man of God (Neil Diamond)
10 Cracklin' Rosie (Neil Diamond)
11 Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
12 I'm a Believer (Neil Diamond)
13 I Am... I Said (Neil Diamond)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert.