Neil Sedaka, Singing Craftsman of Memorable Pop Songs, Dies at 86

With a genius for melody and keen commercial instincts, he sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the late 1950s and early ’60s, and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.​With a genius for melody and keen commercial instincts, he sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the late 1950s and early ’60s, and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.