Gig review: Neil Sedaka; Glasgow Clyde Auditorium

A HUMBLE and unlikely pop superstar, at 73 Neil Sedaka comes across more like a retired insurance salesman than one of the most successful songwriters of all time.
By The Newsroom
Published 9th Oct 2012, 03:28 BST

But maybe that explains why his career has weathered changing trends over the years, and why this one-man-a-grand-piano feel-good show proved unexpectedly entertaining – assuming you didn’t find anything weird about a septuagenarian singing songs about taking young girls to junior proms (see Calendar Girl).

The Brooklyner – who cut his teeth at New York’s Brill Building back in the late 1950s – has seen his fair share of downs as well as ups. Sedaka had sold 40 million records by 1963, “but then came The Beatles,” he explained, with a philosophical smile. “Not good.” The British Invasion and all that entailed saw him quickly forgotten, until his Elton John-aided resurgence as a more adult-orientated crooner after 1975.

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