NEIL SEDAKA, THE SHOW GOES ON, LIVE AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL DVD REVIEW ON ROCK N ROLL UNIVERSE

Neil Sedaka has been a songwriter and performer for over 50 years. Neil and his writing collaborator Howard Greenfield, who were an original part of the “Brill Building Sound“, sold over 25 million records from 1959 to 1963 and their partnership lasted for years.

He made music history in 1975 when the song "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" was re-released as a ballad and reached #1 on the charts, becoming the first song recorded in two different versions by the same artist to reach the Top Ten. This song was also listed by BMI as one of the fifty most performed songs of the 20th century. He has written over 1,000 songs that have been recorded by a diverse group of artists which include; ABBA, Clay Aiken, Shirley Bassey, the Fifth Dimension, the Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, Captain & Tennille, the Carpenters, Nick Carter, Cher, David Cassidy, Petula Clark, Rosemary Clooney, Patsy Cline, Sheryl Crow, Neil Diamond, Gloria Estefan, the Monkees, Mandy Moore, Elvis Presley, the Tubes and many more.

His numerous pop hits have become standards again and again. Remember these classics "Happy Birthday Sweet 16," " Calendar Girl," "Solitaire," "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Laughter in the Rain?" All of these songs are included with many, many more on this DVD, captured live when he performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London. This beautiful venue is the perfect setting for this show. Wonderful in its simplicity a legendary songwriter at his grand piano playing hit after hit for his adoring fans. Included is a duet with his daughter (via video link) of their single "Should Have Never Let You Go". Joining Sinatra and Cole with a successful musical paring of father and daughter. After that performance a Guiness World Records representative shows up to give him an award for British Hit Singles & Albums - Most Successful Song of the 21st Century for "(Is This The Way To) Amarillo" which was a UK #1 single for 7 consecutive weeks in 2005. Tony Christie joins him to perform the song. Neil later performs a posthumous duet with Dinah Washington of her doo-wop single that he wrote when he was just sixteen years old - "Never Again". He is also a Juilliard trained classical pianist and he performs a piece composed by Chopin to show off this side of his talent. This concert is over 2 hours of career spanning songs from a legend in American songwriting. There is also a bonus interview contained on the disc. Fans will love this concert and even people that don’t think they are that familiar with the artist will be amazed at how much of popular music culture Neil Sedaka has touched.