Neil Sedaka Looks Back
Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2009
IT'S OBVIOUS to anyone with even a smattering of pop music suss that without Neil Sedaka there would be no 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do', no 'Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen' and no 'That's When The Music Takes Me'.
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