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Neil Sedaka UK Tour

Douglas Mayo18th October 201716th March 2017 Concerts, News, Touring

Neil Sedaka returns to the UK this year for a limited series of concerts. Neil Sedaka has been making music for 60 years in a career that ranges from being one of the first teen pop sensations of the 1950s, to being a successful songwriter for himself and other artists in the ’60s, to being a superstar in the ’70s and to being a constant force in writing and performing music across the globe. Sedaka catapulted to stardom after Connie Francis recorded Stupid Cupid. Neil signed to RCA as a writer and performer of his own material and was soon having hits with Oh Carol!, The Diary, Stairway to Heaven, Calendar Girl, Little Devil, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Next Door to An Angel, and Breaking Up is Hard to Do. In 2006, Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums named Is This The Way To (Amarillo) the most successful UK … Read more

REVIEW: Oh! Carol, Crazy Coqs ✭✭✭✭

Stephen Collins29th July 201527th July 2015 Cabaret, Reviews

Happily, Oh! Carol provides a thoroughly entertaining and exuberant cross-section of Sedaka’s work. There are the hits but also lesser remembered works, and truly no number in the playlist is dull or unworthy. For the most part, the songs covered were co-written with Greenfield, and the lively, interesting patter tells the story of the highs and lows of the Sedaka/Greenfield partnership with wry objectivity and respectful affection.