Neil Diamond’s 50th anniversary tour stopped into Tampa’s Amalie Arena on April 23, 2017, and what looked like a sold out crowd lapped up a two-hour performance where the 76-year-old Brooklyn songwriter tapped into a nice swath of his massive discography. Our review of the show says:
Neil Diamond’s encore performance of “Sweet Caroline” featured three extra rounds of the 1969 hit single’s famed chorus. For a second — with what looked like the whole of a sold out Amalie Arena crowd on their feet — it felt like the 76-year-old would bring it back a forth time for the Tampa faithful. He didn’t, opting instead to power through the rest of the encore which featured Wrecking Crew collaboration “Cracklin’ Rosie,” the opening track from 1980’s The Jazz Singer, and the title cut from his 1969 Uni Records release Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show.
Listen to those songs on the Spotify playlist below, and read our review of the show here.
This article appears in Apr 20-27, 2017.