12 Songs is the twenty-sixth studio album by Neil Diamond,it was released in 2005. It was his first album of all-original, all-new material since 2001's Three Chord Opera. It was produced by Rick Rubin and is often erroneously cited as the first Diamond album since the Bang Records era to feature the artist playing guitar. 12 Songs, ended up being one of Diamond's most successful and critically acclaimed studio albums in years, debuting at #4 on the Billboard 200 album chart. 12 Songs is the twenty-sixth studio album by Neil Diamond,it was released in 2005. It was his first album of all-original, all-new material since 2001's Three Chord Opera. It was produced by Rick Rubin and is often erroneously cited as the first Diamond album since the Bang Records era to feature the artist playing guitar. 12 Songs, ended up being one of Diamond's most successful and critically acclaimed studio albums in years, debuting at #4 on the Billboard 200 album chart. false 2025-11-08 02:11:44 12 Songs 2005 2005-11-08 2005-11-08 50 Pop Pop Rock Rock Soft Rock 111246 2187525 f3eb96fd-9fb3-4aad-9d67-d26c0ce7274e a42d3fd5-55de-4206-86c3-4fbb5404018f 2e174e2b-e1a1-393d-9b80-b07d351a8483 /media/data/media5/Music/Neil Diamond/12 Songs/folder.jpg Neil Diamond Neil Diamond 1 1 Oh Mary 05:12 1 2 Hell Yeah 04:25 1 3 Captain of a Shipwreck 03:55 1 4 Evermore 05:18 1 5 Save Me a Saturday Night 03:31 1 6 Delirious Love 03:12 1 7 I'm on to You 04:27 1 8 What's It Gonna Be 04:04 1 9 Man of God 04:21 1 10 Create Me 04:10 1 11 Face Me 03:26 1 12 We 03:51 Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actor. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight". Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, including "Sweet Caroline". He has also acted in films, making his screen debut in the 1980 musical drama film The Jazz Singer. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.