This Fresh Air episode honors the life and legacy of Neil Sedaka, the prolific singer-songwriter whose career spanned over six decades, from teenage pop hits in the 1950s to a major 1970s comeback and later creative reinventions. The episode combines a retrospective tribute with a 2007 in
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