The Life and Legacy of Neil Sedaka
We lost another great one, and for me, this one really hurt. I was honored to spend several hours with the legendary singer-songwriter and comeback kid Neil Sedaka several years ago, and we really hit it off. In fact, he sent me Christmas cards and kept in touch in the years after that. I was honored to call him a friend. Neil was definitely one of the good guys in music. He wrote so many classics: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Calendar Girl, Bad Blood, Laughter in the Rain, and the classic Carpenters song Solitaire which may be Karen Carpenter’s greatest vocal, and even though she hated singing…
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