Hope St, Liverpool, L1 9BP
Liverpool, England

One of pop’s most successful and respected songwriters and performers has written for The Monkees, The 5th Dimension and Frankie Valli among many others. The early 70s saw Sedaka, already an international superstar with his 60s hits Oh! Carol and Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, recording the future worldwide smash Solitaire with members of 10CC, a track that would go on to be covered by Andy Williams, The Carpenters, Elvis Presley and American Idol Clay Aiken. A year later he wrote one of his biggest hits, Love Will Keep Us Together and is the composer of (Is This the Way to) Amarillo?

Official Website: http://crd.fm/lr

Added by Liverpool Philharmonic on February 15, 2012