Neil was joined by Lulu and Amy McDonald for a few songs.
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Neil Diamond on BBC Electric Proms live from The Roundhouse London BBC Radio 2 FM 2010.10.30 Hi-MD SP master
art and review available here (though mine is NOT mp3 sourced):
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=631Chris Evans and Jo Whiley are back at the London Roundhouse, as Neil Diamond performs for the last night of the Electric Proms.
After a career spanning five decades, over 128 million worldwide record sales, three dozen Top Forty hits, a Grammy and a Golden Globe, Neil Diamond is just getting started. Tonight, he revisits his own back catalogue, which includes classic songs like I'm A Believer and Sweet Caroline. He also showcases his skills as a performer with interpretations of his favourite songs from other rock composers, including The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, The Eagles and Randy Newman.
A Night With Neil Diamond will broadcast on BBC Two on Saturday 13 November, featuring highlights of the Radio 2 Electric Proms, together with a documentary about Neil's prolific and rich music career. Red Button and online will provide exclusive clips and behind the scenes footage from Saturday 6 November.
It’s likely fans have worn out many a copy of Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night so much so that when it comes to the end of Cherry Cherry at the Roundhouse, one begins to anticipate the opening bars of Sweet Caroline (which was how it was on Hot August Night)… so ingrained is the show in one’s memory.
Hot August Night, released in 1972, was not only a hit album but probably presented Neil Diamond at the height of his prowess as a singer and performer - where he could effortlessly plumb the lows on any song. It is also probably the album to compare his live performances and, 38 years later, Diamond hasn’t aged too badly. He can still do Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon without slurring his lines - “I’ve been misunderstood for all of my life/But what they’re sayin’, girl, just cuts like a knife/’The boy’s no good’ “ - easy to sing when you’re young but it sure can trip you up. And the strain shows on And I Am… I Said.
And Diamond is such a pro that you even welcome his hocking his new album, Dreams. (It’s the Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show after all.) For the “new” songs on Dreams, such as Midnight Train To Georgia, Ain’t No Sunshine and I’m A Believer, while Midnight Train is basically Gladys Knight’s and one wouldn’t think of it as a Diamond cover, Diamond has slowed down the tempo and given it his own touch; and similarly with the “reinvented” I’m A Believer (a Diamond song made famous by The Monkees).
But then again, Diamond has always left his own stamp on other people’s songs - on the Stones album, he had The Last Thing On My Mind, Husbands And Wives, If You Go Away, Suzanne and I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (the album was bookended by I Am… I Said). It’s hard to listen to these songs and not think of Diamond’s mournful vocals. Already back in 1971, Diamond had a blueprint for his covers album(s)!
As on 2008’s Hot August Night/NYC, Diamond appears very gracious and grateful to be entertaining the fans and while this may not be his last hurrah, it sure is nice of him to have Lulu as a guest (whoever still remembers The Boat That I Row?).
Listening to this show is fun but it’d be great to watch the TV broadcast, especially when it’s in high-def. Even then, it’d still be too short!
As far as we can ascertain, this recording has never been officially released.
Disc 1
Track 101. DJ Intro
Track 102. Beautiful Noise
Track 103. Blue Jeans
Track 104. Neil talk
Track 105. Hello Again
Track 106. Neil talk
Track 107. Play Me
Track 108. Solitary Man
Track 109. Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon
Track 110. Cherry Cherry
Track 111. Neil talk
Track 112. Love Song
Track 113. Neil talk
Track 114. Midnight Train To Georgia
Track 115. Ain’t No Sunshine
Track 116. I’m A Believer
Track 117. Neil talk
Track 118. The Boat That I Row (with Lulu)
Track 119. Neil and Lulu talk
Track 120. I’m a Fool for You (with Lulu)
Track 121. Pretty Amazing Grace
Track 122. Neil talk
Track 123. Shilo (Amy McDonald solo)
Track 124. This Is The Life (Amy McDonald solo)
Track 125. Neil talk
Disc 2
Track 201. Holly Holly
Track 202. Cracklin’ Rosie
Track 203. I Am… I Said
Track 204. Sweet Caroline pt1
Track 205. Sweet Caroline pt2
Track 206. Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show
Track 207. DJ outro
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