Hot August Night is a 1972 live double album by Neil Diamond. (“Hot August night” is also the opening lyric in Diamond’s 1969 single, “Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show”.) It is a recording of a Diamond concert on Thursday August 24, 1972, one of ten sold out concerts that Diamond performed that month at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. AllMusic Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewin calls Hot August Night “the ultimate Neil Diamond record … (which) shows Diamond the icon in full glory.” The album has become a great success for Diamond, and in Australia, it spent 29 weeks at Read more on Last.fm.
