50 Year Anniversary World Tour (Neil Diamond)

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50 Year Anniversary World Tour
Tour by Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond tour poster 2017.png
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • North America
  • Europe
  • Oceania
Start dateApril 7, 2017
End date
  • October 19, 2017 (last show)
  • January 22, 2018 (announced)
Legs3
No. of shows
  • 39 in North America
  • 16 in Europe
  • 55 in total
Neil Diamond concert chronology

50 Year Anniversary World Tour is a Neil Diamond tour that marked the 50th Anniversary of Diamond's first hit single, "Solitary Man," released in 1966. [1] It began in Fresno, California on April 7, 2017, and concluded at The O2 Arena in London on October 19, 2017. The tour began just after the March release of a 50-song, three-disc career-spanning box set titled Neil Diamond 50 – 50th Anniversary Collection. [2] [3] The Oceania tour was announced on November 10, 2017 [4] and cancelled on January 22, 2018, after Diamond announced he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. [5]

Contents

Set list

  1. "In My Lifetime"
  2. "Cherry, Cherry"
  3. "You Got to Me"
  4. "Solitary Man"
  5. "Love on the Rocks"
  6. "Hello Again"
  7. "Play Me"
  8. "Song Sung Blue"
  9. "Beautiful Noise"
  10. "Desiree"
  11. "Dry Your Eyes"
  12. "If You Know What I Mean"
  13. "Forever in Blue Jeans"
  14. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"
  15. "Red Red Wine"
  16. "I'm a Believer"
  17. "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"
  18. "Brooklyn Road"
  19. "Stones"
  20. "Be"
  21. "Lonely Looking Sky"
  22. "Skybird"
  23. "Jazz Time"
  24. "Soolaimon"
  25. "Holly Holy"
  26. "I Am ...I Said"
  27. "Sweet Caroline"
  28. "Cracklin' Rosie"
  29. "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show"

Shows

DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceBox Office
North America
April 7, 2017 Fresno United States Save Mart Center 8,674 / 8,674$806,775
April 9, 2017 Salt Lake City Vivint Smart Home Arena 11,887 / 11,887$994,905
April 12, 2017 St. Louis Scottrade Center 13,425 / 13,425$1,176,555
April 14, 2017 Omaha CenturyLink Center Omaha 13,658 / 13,658$1,130,176
April 16, 2017 Oklahoma City Chesapeake Energy Arena 8,106 / 8,106$727,285
April 19, 2017 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 11,739 / 14,162$922,868
April 21, 2017 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 12,649 / 12,649$1,125,696
April 23, 2017 Tampa Amalie Arena 13,239 / 13,239$1,213,850
April 26, 2017 Sunrise BB&T Center 10,110 / 10,110$933,714
April 28, 2017 Charlotte Spectrum Center 11,868 / 11,868$1,257,919
April 30, 2017 Atlanta Philips Arena 12,235 / 13,197$1,207,288
May 2, 2017 New Orleans Smoothie King Center 9,582 / 9,582$913,183
May 21, 2017 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena 13,590 / 13,590$1,113,574
May 24, 2017 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 17,002 / 17,002$1,682,469
May 26, 2017 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 10,887 / 10,887$1,093,598
May 28, 2017 Chicago United Center 13,890 / 13,890$1,741,243
May 30, 2017 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 12,660 / 12,660$1,260,995
June 2, 2017 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 13,889 / 13,889$1,383,517
June 4, 2017 Rochester Blue Cross Arena 10,833 / 10,833$930,258
June 7, 2017 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 15,095 / 15,095$1,099,640
June 9, 2017 Baltimore United States Royal Farms Arena 10,782 / 10,782$1,113,582
June 11, 2017 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena
June 15, 2017 New York City Madison Square Garden 27,303 / 31,488$3,306,191
June 17, 2017
June 20, 2017 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 12,509 / 12,509$1,347,577
June 22, 2017 Bethel Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 10,443 / 16,502$813,842
July 14, 2017 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena 8,872 / 8,872$810,741
July 16, 2017 Houston Toyota Center 10,303 / 10,303$1,093,133
July 18, 2017 Dallas American Airlines Center 12,549 / 12,549$1,344,965
July 21, 2017 Denver Pepsi Center 11,330 / 11,330$1,152,608
July 24, 2017 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena 9,973 / 9,973$782,284
July 26, 2017 Seattle United States KeyArena 10,961 / 10,961$1,347,577
July 28, 2017 Portland Moda Center 12,441 / 12,441$1,136,192
July 30, 2017 San Jose SAP Center 10,961 / 10,961$1,080,551
August 2, 2017 Sacramento Golden 1 Center 11,878 / 11,878$1,181,378
August 4, 2017 Phoenix Talking Stick Resort Arena 12,989 / 12,989$1,183,928
August 8, 2017 San Diego Valley View Casino Center 9,430 / 9,430$946,314
August 10, 2017 Inglewood The Forum
August 12, 2017
Europe [6]
September 10, 2017 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome 23,046 / 23,046 [lower-alpha 1] $2,055,295 [lower-alpha 1]
September 13, 2017 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 5,678 / 5,678$668,074
September 16, 2017 Mannheim Germany SAP Arena 7,570 / 7,570$777,998
September 19, 2017 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle 9,485 / 9,485$965,000
September 21, 2017 Munich Germany Olympiahalle 9,102 / 9,102$937,246
September 23, 2017AmsterdamNetherlandsZiggo Dome [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 1]
September 26, 2017 Hamburg Germany Barclaycard Arena 9,356 / 9,356$979,513
September 28, 2017 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis 15,309 / 15,309$1,391,522
October 1, 2017 Manchester England Manchester Arena 13,132 / 13,132$1,610,369
October 3, 2017 Glasgow Scotland The SSE Hydro 10,617 / 10,617$1,321,032
October 5, 2017 Leeds England First Direct Arena 10,207 / 10,207$1,201,851
October 8, 2017 Belfast Northern Ireland The SSE Arena 7,801 / 7,801$911,560
October 10, 2017 Dublin Ireland 3Arena 8,204 / 8,204$992,986
October 13, 2017 Birmingham England Barclaycard Arena 12,389 / 12,389$1,516,835
October 15, 2017 Genting Arena 5,672 / 5,672$704,039
October 17, 2017 London The O2 Arena 26,326 / 26,326$3,121,670
October 19, 2017
TOTAL306,055 / 319,768
(96%)
$2,130,156

Cancelled shows

DateCityCountryVenueReason
Leg 3 — Oceania
March 15, 2018 Christchurch New Zealand Rugby League Park Parkinson's disease diagnosis [5]
March 17, 2018 Napier Mission Estate
March 20, 2018 Townsville Australia Willows Sports Complex
March 22, 2018 Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast Stadium
March 24, 2018 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
March 27, 2018 Sydney Sydney Super Dome
March 31, 2018 Sutton Grange Sutton Grange Winery
April 3, 2018 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
April 7, 2018 Hunter Valley Roche Estate
April 11, 2018 Adelaide Botanic Park
April 14, 2018 Perth Perth Arena

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 The score data is combined from the shows held at the Ziggo Dome on September 10 and 23, respectively.

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