Though the album was well received by critics and fans alike, King Diamond's record company claimed loss of profits due to file sharing prevented them from supporting an album tour from the band.

He also scored a chart record in 1970 with Neil Diamond's " Red Red Wine ," years before it was turned into a number one hit by UB40.

The attendance record was set in 1996, when more than 12, 000 people viewed Neil Diamond's concert.

The 1990s and 2000s saw a resurgence in Diamond's popularity.

Diamond no longer provides support for the Rio, and the last version of Microsoft Windows to work with Diamond's Rio software was Windows 98.

The last piece of the company was effectively sold in late 2003, when Best Data acquired the Diamond's Supra modem business along with rights to the Diamond Multimedia name for use in a new video card division.

In February 1979, the uptempo " Forever in Blue Jeans ", co-written with his guitarist, Richard Bennett, was released as a single from You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Diamond's album from the previous year.

However, at the suggestion of Neil Diamond's drummer Dennis St. John, the brothers recorded and released the single " Let Your Love Flow ", written by Diamond's roadie Larry Williams.

Diamond's very high scratch resistance and thermal conductivity, combined with a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than Pyrex glass, a coefficient of friction close to that of Teflon ( Polytetrafluoroethylene ) and strong lipophilicity would make it a nearly ideal non-stick coating for cookware if large substrate areas could be coated economically.

Although Diamond's work does make connections between environmental and climatic conditions and societal development, it is published with the stated intention of disproving racist and eurocentric theories of development.

That same year, UB40's reggae interpretation of Diamond's ballad Red Red Wine would top the Billboard's Pop Singles chart and, like the Monkees ' version of " I'm a Believer ", become better known than Diamond's original version.

Neil Diamond's version of the song, recorded for his Tap Root Manuscript album, went to # 20 on the Billboard " Hot 100 Singles " chart in late 1970.

The album debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard chart, and has received generally positive reviews ; Earliwine describes the album as " inarguably Neil Diamond's best set of songs in a long, long time ".

The end result, 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.

But as Walker ( 2006 ) points out, it has failed to offer “ compelling counter-narratives ” to “ widely influential and popular yet deeply flawed and unapologetic neo-Malthusian rants such as Robert Kaplan's ( 1994 ) ' The coming anarchy ' and Jared Diamond's ( 2005 ) Collapse ” ( 385 ).

For free-living organisms, diversity ecology features many strong conceptual frameworks including Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson's theory of island biogeography, Jared Diamond's assembly rules and, more recently, null models such as Stephen Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography.

A blue diamond with the same shape, size, and color as the Hope Diamond was recorded by John Francillon in the possession of the London diamond merchant Daniel Eliason in September 1812, the earliest point when the history of the Hope Diamond can be definitively fixed, although a second less definitive report suggests that the Hope Diamond's " authentic history " can only be traced back to 1830.

At some point, he also had the Hope Diamond's bottom facet slightly recut to increase its brilliance.

The prologue opens with an account of Diamond's conversation with Yali, a New Guinean politician.

The Gunny was a practicing Episcopalian as noted in the notes of journalist Marc Parrott who was present at Gunny Diamond's Episcopalian funeral services.

But the Sino-Japanese controversy, in Diamond's opinion, was " not much of a war ," and on June 10, 1933, he returned to the United States, disembarking from the USS Henderson ( AP-1 ) at Mare Island, California.

Journalist Marc Parrott notes that Diamond's funeral service was Episcopalian.

Mercyful Fate was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1981 from the remaining members of Hank Shermann's band Brats and King Diamond's band Black Rose.

Diamond's new venture continued the tradition of Mercyful Fate, but with a more progressive, conceptual twist to it.

McNeil is Diamond's manager and was the producer on the documentary Neil Diamond: Hot August Nights NYC.

Diamond's Bang recordings were produced by legendary Brill Building songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, both of whom can be heard singing background on many of the tracks.

" Sweet Caroline " was Diamond's first major hit after his slump.

Hot August Night demonstrates Diamond's skills as a performer and showman, as he reinvigorated his back catalogue of hits with new energy.

Also, Diamond's final concert of his 1976 Australian Tour ( The " Thank You Australia " Concert ) was broadcast to 36 television outlets nationwide on March 6.

Urge Overkill recorded a version of Diamond's " Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon " for Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, released in 1994.

Smash Mouth covered Diamond's " I'm a Believer " for their 2001 self-titled album.

He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.

April sales also were 5% below those of April last year, when volume reached a record for any month, $18.9 billion ( see chart on Page One ).

Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record high of $ 476 billion in 2005, an increase of 4. 9 percent over 2004 ...

Driven by consumer demand, the ethnic food market reached record sales in 2002, and has emerged as the fastest growing category in the food and beverage product sector, according to USBX Advisory Services.

In 1884 Eckert sold the company to John H. Patterson, who renamed the company the National Cash Register Company and improved the cash register by adding a paper roll to record sales transactions, thereby creating the receipt.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

In 1996, despite record sales and profits at Compaq, Pfeiffer initiated a major management shakeup in the senior ranks.

With country music record sales declining as rock and roll took over, Atkins and Bob Ferguson took their cue from Owen Bradley and eliminated fiddles and steel guitar as a means of making country singers appeal to pop fans.

By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Downtown ", " Tennessee Homesick Blues " ( all 1984 ); " Real Love " ( another duet with Kenny Rogers ), " Don't Call It Love " ( both 1985 ); and " Think About Love " ( 1986 ) all reaching the country-singles Top 10.

Despite his by now well established superstardom, Bowie, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " for all his record sales ( over a million copies of Ziggy Stardust alone ), existed essentially on loose change.

Nevertheless, the tour did absolutely nothing for record sales.

As a result Brown's record sales and concerts in the United States reached a lull in 1973 as he failed to land a number-one R & B single that year.

Despite a fallout from record sales, Brown enjoyed something of a resurgence in this period starting with cameo roles in the feature films The Blues Brothers, Doctor Detroit and Rocky IV, as well as guest starring in the Miami Vice episode " Missing Hours " ( 1988 ).

Their only record with enough U. S. sales to be certified gold was the compilation album Ramones Mania.

Bands that fused punk with light-hearted pop melodies, such as The Queers and Screeching Weasel, began appearing around the country, in turn influencing bands like Green Day and The Offspring, who brought pop punk wide popularity and major record sales.

Despite finishing with a 6 – 10 record in the 2005 – 2006 season, the Eagles ranked second in the NFL in merchandise sales, and single-game tickets for the next season were sold out minutes after phone and Internet lines opened.

With efforts at improved audio fidelity, the big record companies succeeded in keeping business booming through the end of the decade, but the record sales plummeted during the Great Depression, with many companies merging or going out of business.

Booms in record sales returned after World War II as standards changed from 78s to vinyl long play records, which could contain an entire symphony, and 45s which usually contained one hit popularized on the radio, plus another song on the back or " flip " side.

Ninety percent of his record sales were from black people, and his " Smokey, Part 2 " ( 1959 ) rose to the # 1 position on black music charts.

Where traditional ragtime depended on amateur pianists and sheet music sales, the novelty rag took advantage of new advances in piano-roll technology and the phonograph record to permit a more complex, pyrotechnic, performance-oriented style of rag to be heard.

In 2011 Škoda sold a record number of 875, 000 cars, and it stated that it aimed to double its sales by 2018, as part of the Volkswagen Group's plan to become the largest car maker in the world.