Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sedaka on stage in London in 1977 - Michael Putland/Getty Images ​Neil Sedaka, who has died aged 86, co-wrote and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Karen Carpenter reportedly disliked the 1975 Carpenters song "Solitaire" so much she refused to perform it live. After Karen's ...

Neil Sedaka, an irrepressible songsmith who parlayed his compositional skills into pop stardom during the height of the Brill Building era in the 1960s and later staged an easy-listening comeback in ...

Documentary telling the story of songwriter and performer Neil Sedaka, the man behind some of the biggest smash hits in history, including Oh Carol, Is This the Way to Amarillo, Solitaire, Breaking up ...

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 ...

Karen Carpenter reportedly disliked the 1975 Carpenters song "Solitaire" so much she refused to perform it live. According to the YouTube channel Professor of Rock, the brother and sister duo were ...

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 ...