Vocalist, songwriter, and pianist Neil Sedaka enjoyed two distinct intervals of commercial achievement in two slightly different varieties of pop music: initial, as a teenager pop celebrity in the past due ’50s and early ’60s, after that being a vocalist of older pop/rock within the ’70s. Both in stages, Sedaka, …

THE SIMPLE Riders aren’t mentioned in virtually any reference books on folk music — certainly, one will see no entry in it in virtually any reference focus on popular music from the 20th century, even though they had an enormous hit in early 1957 using the song “Marianne,” and in …

In the dawn of Brazilian rock and roll, Odeon within Celly Campelo their first young muse. With Nora Ney like a precursor due to her isolated documenting of “Rock and roll Night and day” (Maximum Freeman/Jimmy DeKnight) in 1955 when she had been 33, Campelo documented her first solitary, “Handsome …