Single:
Diamonds entered the Australian singles chart* on 11 June 1979 and peaked at #13. It was #95 on the Top 100 of 1979.
Album:
The song is on Deltics which entered the Australian albums chart* on 11 June 1979 and peaked at #27.
Songwriter:
Chris Rea
Producer:
Gus Dudgeon
Record label of Australian release:
Magnet
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Diamonds is on Chris’s second studio album Deltics, released in 1979. The album producer Gus Dudgeon had made several early albums with Elton John.
The album is named after the East Coast rail network’s Deltic-class locomotives that were used in the 1960s and 1970s between London and Edinburgh.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltics_(album)
Lyrics:
Oh getaway and don’t come back
Who do you think you’re fooling with lies like that?
You have dreams that set the rain on fire
Burning with a cheap desire
And it’s plain as grey that what you say
Have meanings of their own
My love, she don’t need diamonds
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