{"id":7361,"date":"2012-09-12T21:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T04:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2012-09-12T21:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T04:59:31","slug":"neil-sedaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/neil-sedaka\/","title":{"rendered":"NEIL SEDAKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7362\" title=\"NEIL-SEDAKA-M-Review-JulyAugust2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NEIL-SEDAKA-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NEIL-SEDAKA-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NEIL-SEDAKA-M-Review-JulyAugust2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>N<\/strong><strong>EIL SEDAKA<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>The Show Goes On<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Eagle Rock]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At a time when U.S. record companies dismissed Neil Sedaka as an aging teenybopper, England couldn\u2019t get enough of him. This live set, recorded in 2006 at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, is a tribute to both Sedaka\u2019s long career and the willingness of his British fans to accept him as more than a sugary oldies act. His classic hits about the junior prom and turning 16 are here, but so are 1970s-era piano-man gems like \u201cSolitaire\u201d and the simple, heart-tugging \u201cBetty Grable.\u201d The one drawback: Someone decided to cut most of the between-song introductions. Sedaka is a good talker, and in interviews, he\u2019s capable of charming everyone from Mike Huckabee to Tavis Smiley. Not hearing Sedaka\u2019s inevitable stories about dating Carole King, befriending Elton John, and working as a teenage tunesmith-for-hire is like watching an intimate performance from behind a pack of security guards. \u2013David Styburski<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEIL SEDAKA The Show Goes On [Eagle Rock] At a time when U.S. record companies dismissed Neil Sedaka as an aging teenybopper, England couldn\u2019t get enough of him. This live set, recorded in 2006 at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, is a tribute to both Sedaka\u2019s long career and the willingness of his British fans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4788,4538,197,4787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7363,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions\/7363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}