Track Listing DISC 1: A NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS 12/27/02: 1. Overture 2. America 3. Mission of Love, A 4. Hello Again 5. Kentucky Woman 6. Boat That I Row 7. Cherry, Cherry 8. Red, Red Wine 9. I'm a Believer 10. Play Me 11. Love on the Rocks 12. Soolaimon 13. If You Know What I Mean 14. Beautiful Noise 15. Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon 16. I Haven't Played This Song in Years 17. You Are the Best Part of Me 18. Forever in Blue Jeans
DISC 2: A NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS 12/27/03: 1. Starflight 2. Captain Sunshine 3. Holly Holy 4. Sweet Caroline 5. Sweet Caroline - (reprise) 6. You Don't Bring Me Flowers 7. Yes I Will / Lady Magdelene 8. Shilo 9. He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother 10. I Am...I Said 11. Cracklin' Rosie 12. Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show 13. America - (walk off)
DISC 3: MANY STAGES: 1. Lordy 2. Brooklyn Roads 3. Home Is a Wounded Heart 4. Last Picasso, The 5. Last Thing on My Mind, The 6. You Got Me 7. God Only Knows 8. Lay Lady Lay 9. Glory Road 10. Rocket Man 11. Say Maybe 12. Once in a While 13. Rainy Day Song 14. Guitar Heaven 15. Songs of Life 16. Fire on the Tracks 17. Brooklyn on a Saturday Night 18. Primitive 19. Story of My Life, The
DISC 4: MANY STAGES: 1. This Time 2. American Popular Song, The 3. Teach Me Tonight 4. Dedicated to the One I Love 5. Spanish Harlem 6. Beatles Medley:: Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End 7. Sweet L. A. Days 8. Fortune of the Night 9. Mountains of Love 10. If There Were No Dreams 11. All I Really Need Is You 12. Yesterday's Songs 13. Can Anybody Hear Me 14. Talking Optimist Blues 15. Everybody 16. Marry Me 17. In My Lifetime 18. I Got the Feelin' (Oh No, No) 19. Longfellow Serenade 20. Unchained Melody 21. I Believe in Happy Endings
DISC 5: LIVE CHRISTMAS: 1. Oh Holy Night 2. Silent Night 3. White Christmas 4. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 5. O Come, O Come Emmanuel 6. Little Drummer Boy 7. Morning Has Broken 8. You Make It Feel Like Christmas 9. Christmas Song, The 10. Winter Wonderland 11. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town 12. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
| Details | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Includes a DVD disc. Personnel includes: Neil Diamond (vocals, guitar); Eddie Rubin, Randy Sterling, Carol Hunter, Mark Kapner, Dennis St. John, Alan Lindgren, Richard Bennett, Emory Gordy Jr., Reinie Press, Danny Nicholson, Jeffrey Kewley, Jesse Diamond, Doug Rhone, Julia Waters, Ron Tutt, Oren Waters, Art Velasco, Ralf Rickert, Larry Klimas, Don Markese. Compilation producers: Neil Diamond, Sam Cole. Recorded between 1970-2002. Includes liner notes by Laurie Viera Rigler. Few singers are as connected with sing-alongs as the New York City born and raised Neil Diamond. From rousing renditions at pubs to interpretations at karaoke clubs, his songs are vigorously sung from sea to shining sea. The incomparable Mr. Diamond's songs are made to be sung lustily, feverishly, with reckless abandon, and as one would predict, Neil himself sings them that way, making his live shows, concert events in the full-bodied, Tom Jones sense of the word. His shows are the ultimate in fan friendly entertainment, interspersed with wandering tales and sudden, direct connections with the crowd. This distinctly Diamond behavior was even the subject of a Saturday Night Live sketch that played in part off his stage digressions and in part off the passion in his songs, songs which sometimes wear arcane, wonderfully obtuse, and even pleadingly earnest lyrics on their sleeve. The box set STAGES gathers all the live Diamond any fan might desire in five audio discs and a DVD. The performances span his formative years in the early 1970s, when he channeled raw yet sweet Stax-style soul, through his ballads of the '80s and his famous Christmas caroling to two concerts from 2002. All of these performances capture the flavor, the passion, the sound bites, and the sweat of a Neil Diamond concert experience.
Editorial Reviews 3 stars out of 5 - [H]is sonorous vocal power and masterful phrasing have remained intact... Q (01/01/2004)
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