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"Neil Diamond will be donating royalties from sales of &amp;quot;Sweet Caroline&amp;quot; since the Boston Marathon bombings to a charity that is helping victims of the terrorist incident earlier this month. Diamond&amp;apos;s 1969 track, a favorite of the Boston Red Sox, saw a sales boost of almost 600 percent following the April 15th attacks. After seeing the news on Nielsen&amp;apos;s Twitter, Diamond retweeted the post and added &amp;quot;Donating these royalties to #OneFund!&amp;quot;\r\nNeil Diamond Writing Song Inspired By Boston Marathon Bombing\r\n&amp;quot;Sweet Caroline&amp;quot; sold 19,000 copies last week, a big jump up from the 2,800 copies it sold the previous week. The track has sold 1.75 million units in total. Though the song, addressed to Caroline Kennedy, doesn&amp;apos;t directly mention the Massachusetts capital, it&amp;apos;s become a staple of sing-alongs at Red Sox home games for more than a decade. The New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto Raptors and other sports teams played &amp;quot;Sweet Caroline&amp;quot; at games following the bombings in a show of solidarity.\r\nDiamond also visited Fenway Park last Saturday and led the crowd in singing &amp;quot;Sweet Caroline&amp;quot; at the team&amp;apos;s first home game since the attacks. The singer also said he&amp;apos;s working on new material partially inspired by the bombings. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m writing now and obviously affected by this situation in Boston, so I&amp;apos;m writing about it just to express myself,&amp;quot; he told Rolling Stone. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s like an infestation, and I&amp;apos;m writing about the general situation, not just about this bombing in Boston, but what we&amp;apos;re going through with all of these tragedies &amp;#x2013; shootings and so on and so forth.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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