This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Neil Sedaka, the singer and songwriter whose recording and performing career stretched from the 1950s to the current decade, died last week. He was 86 years old ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neil Sedaka was nominated for five Grammy awards over his six-decades-long career - Charles Sykes/AP Neil Sedaka, the US rock and ...

Neil Sedaka was born in Brighton Beach in 1939 and displayed his musical talent early on. His mother bought him his first piano at age 7, and at age 9, he got a child prodigy scholarship at Juilliard ...