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 ...

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. Sedaka on stage in London in 1977 - Michael Putland/Getty Images ​Neil Sedaka, who has died aged 86, co-wrote and ...

GROSS: So how much are you still writing songs now? SEDAKA: I write once or twice a year. I wrote some new songs that I'm working on for a children's album. I actually rewrote - since I have three new ...