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 ...

The music world is mourning the loss of the supremely talented singer-songwriter and pianist Neil Sedaka, who died on Friday, February 27, at age 86. As a solo performer, Sedaka enjoyed an impressive ...

Neil Sedaka -- who died on Friday at the age of 86-- was a prolific, incredibly talented songwriter. He was one of the big names who worked in the Brill Building with others like Carole King, Burt ...

A middle-of-the-night inspiration helped complete one of the biggest pop hits of 1962, which would eventually make an ...

BIANCULLI: That same year, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, who had written their first hit songs together back in the '50s, collaborated again on a song that became a No. 1 hit for the Captain & ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neil Sedaka, the buoyantly up-tempo singer, pianist and songwriter who sidestepped a promising classical career in the 1950s to ...

The musician was also known for hits such as "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and "Laughter in the Rain." By Anna Chan Neil Sedaka, the legendary singer known for hits such as the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s ...

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 ...

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 ...