Neil Sedaka Tickets

Neil Sedaka, Grammy awarded singer-songwriter and international hit-maker is touring Australia with his band and State Symphony Orchestras for concerts in Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney from 29 April to 11 May.

Neil is a prolific songwriter and sophisticated performer with an extraordinary vocal range, who has produced an immense catalogue of melodic and timeless Rock n' Roll Classics - 

Oh! Carol, Laughter In the Rain, Stupid Cupid, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Little Devil, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Next Door to An Angel, The Diary, Calendar Girl, Solitaire, Love Will Keep Us Together, The Hungry Years, Bad Blood, (Is This The Way To) Amarillo, Stairway To Heaven, Should've Never Let You Go, Wheel in West Virginia, Star Crossed Lovers, That's When The Music Takes Me and more.

Acknowledged as a musical genius, Neil's undiminished soundscape has remained relevant across decades and genres and his numerous honours include a Grammy (and 5 nominations), a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, inductions into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, National Academy of Popular Music Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, BMI Awards and a Brooklyn street name.

In 2006, Neil received the UK's Guinness Award for Best Selling Single of the 21st Century for (Is This The Way To) Amarillo, originally written for Tony Christie almost forty years ago. Neil Sedaka: 50 Years of Hits was a 2007 star-studded celebratory Tribute concert held at the Lincoln Centre, with Connie Francis, Natalie Cole, The Captain and Tennille and others, to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

The son of a New York taxi driver, Neil resided with eleven family members in a two bedroom Brooklyn apartment and from the age of eight, studied classical piano at the prestigious Julliard School of Music.

Neil was only thirteen when he formed a songwriting partnership that was to span decades, with sixteen year old Howard Greenfield and had his first song published. He'd started the Doo-Wop band The Tokens to gain peer acceptance on the side, while he considered a Doctorate in Music but it was the wild student reaction to his High School Rock n' Roll concert debut, that decided his career path.

In the late fifties and still a teenager, Neil and Howard created the original "Brill Building sound" and were catapulted to stardom with the iconic music hub's first hit, Stupid Cupid recorded by Connie Francis. They sold twenty-five million records between 1959 and 1963 and gave Connie her biggest chart success, the theme to the summer break movie Where The Boys Are.

Neil was blessed with career success as a solo artist and Gold and Platinum albums until the decline of the American music industry from the Beatles led "British Invasion". He survived the UK blitz on the US charts by writing hits for Tom Jones (Puppet Man), The Fifth Dimension (Workin' On A Groovy Thing) and The Monkees (When Love Comes Knocking at Your Door) and others.

In the early seventies, he relocated to England on the strength of audience support for his live performances and redefined himself, releasing the chart toppers That's When The Music Takes Me and the decade's biggest single Laughter In The Rain.

Neil signed with Elton John's emerging Rocket Records and heralded his home-coming with Sedaka's Back in 1974 and The Hungry Years, a year later. Both were highly successful albums in the US, producing #1 hits with Bad Blood and Laughter in The Rain. When Neil re-recorded Breaking Up is Hard to Do as a ballad, he made music history when the single shot to the top of the charts - the first song recorded in two versions by the same artist to reach #1 for a second time.

Love Will Keep Us Together was a global hit for The Captain and Tennille, winning the Grammy Award for 1975 Record of the Year and was the Most Broadcast Song on radio in 1976. A diverse range of artists have also covered Neil's compositions from Peggy Lee, Dame Shirley Bassey, Carole King, Petula Clark & Abba to Sheryl Crow, Rita Coolidge, Rosemary Clooney, Elvis Presley, Johnny Mathis, Wayne Newton, John Travolta & The Carpenters.

In the nineties, Neil recorded the now certified Gold Classically Sedaka album and performed with Orchestras all over the world. On this Australian tour, he has added two Musical Directors, Dick Palombi and Lee Holdridge, also studio, stage and screen legends, who will conduct the Greatest Hits and Classical Sedaka World Premiere of the symphonic piece, Joie De Vivre.

Don't miss out on the magic that is Neil Sedaka in Concert with his band and State Symphony Orchestras from 29 April to 11 May. Tickets are on-sale now so mark the dates in The Diary and ..... do-run-run-run, do-do-run-run!