DIAMAOND TOPS CHART FOR FIRST TIME !
Diamond will sing at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset on 29 June.
Singer Neil Diamond has reached the top of the US Billboard album chart for the first time in his career.
Home Before Dark, the 67-year-old's 29th studio album, made its chart debut in pole position after shifting 146,000 copies in its first week on release.
His previous highest chart position was in 1973 when his soundtrack to the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull got to two.
Diamond, who will play Glastonbury in June, was in London this week for a live session at the BBC Radio Theatre.
The concert, which saw him perform such classics as Hello Again, Beautiful Noise and Forever in Blue Jeans as well as new material, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 this Saturday at 1900 BST.
Singer Neil Diamond has reached the top of the US Billboard album chart for the first time in his career.
Home Before Dark, the 67-year-old's 29th studio album, made its chart debut in pole position after shifting 146,000 copies in its first week on release.
His previous highest chart position was in 1973 when his soundtrack to the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull got to two.
Diamond, who will play Glastonbury in June, was in London this week for a live session at the BBC Radio Theatre.
The concert, which saw him perform such classics as Hello Again, Beautiful Noise and Forever in Blue Jeans as well as new material, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 this Saturday at 1900 BST.
Diamond recorded his previous highest position in the Billboard chart when his last album, 12 Songs, reached number four in 2005.
Both that album and Home Before Dark were produced by the Grammy award-winning Rick Rubin.
The veteran singer-songwriter has had 46 albums make the Billboard chart since The Feel of Neil Diamond was released in 1966.
He begins a European tour on 24 May in Rotterdam that will include June dates in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and London.
Earlier this week he told BBC 6 Music why he accepted the invitation to play at Glastonbury.
"I know it's one of the ultimate festivals and maybe the biggest," he said, adding he hoped he would not be "laughed out of the country".
BBC NEWS REPORT.
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