From Amarillo to Stockport: 15 of Neil Sedaka’s greatest songs, and their extraordinary stories

Sedaka got his breakthrough as a performer with 1958’s The Diary – inspired when Connie Francis refused to let him and songwriting partner Howard Greenfield scour her diary for inspiration. Oh! Carol, meanwhile, was a paean to Sedaka’s ex-girlfriend Carol Klein – the irrepressibility of the melody a...

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