By the early 2000s, Neil Diamond had already sold more than 120 million records in a career spanning over 40 years – but it was with famed producer Rick Rubin that Diamond created his first US No.1 album.
Their first collaboration was on the singer’s 2005 album 12 Songs, which reached No.4 on the Billboard chart. But the follow-up Home Before Dark hit the top spot in May 2008, making Diamond the oldest artist ever to have a No.1 album in the US – a record he held for just one year until Bob Dylan took that title with his album Together Through Life.
