Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early ’60s, Neil Sedaka was one of the biggest hitmakers in pop music, scoring smash hits like “Happy Birthday Sweet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By September 1975, Sedaka was, officially, back. He’d scored his second career No. 1 with the sweet pop ballad “Laughter in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. On one of the last days of February, the music world lost a legend.

The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks. By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Neil Sedaka defined a micro-era in ...

Neil Sedaka, the buoyantly up-tempo singer, pianist and songwriter who sidestepped a promising classical career in the 1950s to write and perform pop hits such as “Oh! Carol” and “Calendar Girl,” and ...

Sedaka, who died Feb. 27, was a classical piano prodigy whose hits in the late '50s and early '60s included "Calendar Girl" and "Breaking up is Hard to Do." Originally broadcast in 2007. This is FRESH ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll and led to a second run of success in the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Neil Sedaka, an irrepressible songsmith who parlayed his compositional skills into pop stardom during the height ...

He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s. By Peter Applebome Neil ...