{"id":3167,"date":"2026-03-02T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:58:04","slug":"neil-sedaka-dies-aged-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3167","title":{"rendered":"Neil Sedaka dies aged 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"260\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Neil Sedaka<\/span><\/span>, the \u201960s and \u201970s hitmaker, has died at 86. His family said they were \u201cdevastated by the sudden loss\u201d of the beloved husband, father, and grandfather, calling him a true rock and roll legend and an incredible human being.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"648\">Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Sedaka began his career in the late 1950s and rose to fame with classics like \u201cBreaking Up Is Hard to Do,\u201d \u201cOh! Carol,\u201d \u201cCalendar Girl,\u201d and \u201cHappy Birthday Sweet Sixteen.\u201d Though the British Invasion slowed his momentum in the 1960s, he made a strong comeback in the 1970s with hits such as \u201cLaughter in the Rain\u201d and his work on \u201cLove Will Keep Us Together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"650\" data-end=\"847\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Over a seven-decade career, Sedaka wrote and recorded hundreds of songs, sold millions of records, and earned induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The cause of death has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Neil Sedaka, the \u201960s and \u201970s hitmaker, has died at 86. His family said they were \u201cdevastated by the sudden loss\u201d of the beloved husband, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=3167\" title=\"Neil Sedaka dies aged 86\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}