{"id":306185,"date":"2026-02-28T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:11:09","slug":"neil-sedaka-singer-of-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-dies-at-86-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306185\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Sedaka, singer of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, dies at 86 &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBiTGkzU3VlWFZMbUtESzhCWmp1SU1lbEV0Z09DT3Rkd2dDNHdQaURLZE5aWXdXZS02dzFNQTN4VlNmNk5CWFpLR3BSRVpPMzJ5LW5HSWF6NV95QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neil Sedaka, singer of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiAFBVV95cUxPSUF4dDN0U284VnVXVldwZXJiQnNsNnc3akhoMzJwRFg3VVJyaURfdWtybUZmbGFETlpfdUJ2aUJCSzQ1YzJaeEFlOE1oam8xWnFjU3A3dzY2SlR0UUlBSV9zQ1hnSEpJM1VKN2RaRjlxV1dLdjRaVjFISEhzQ3JGZzJ3MkJ1QTln?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neil Sedaka, US singer and songwriter, dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RNZ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiugFBVV95cUxNejFFM1VRdEVSZGhVLW5NcDVOSXFKTUtfNzd0cllOcGtjaFlfVzJnWkFTS0FwQ0IxVjQyNEIzdVY4bGgxajRVS0dZRWlhdUxyX3NPNm9hYmkwMVVVMlB3TzdLaTNQZHQ2SGdjTEpaSWI3Z18wUzRJOTNTcVladWNlWGtyWFNPS1Fwb0h4VEpjSFBCcE9aZUpna1g0N0p3RFIwbWU5eWJDU0JIRDkzNkRXVkhKTlN4TnBObFE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neil Sedaka, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do singer and pop song hitmaker, dies aged 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwFBVV95cUxQUjBEZ2VPeUpCa0RuUm5ybWg4RzBTQ1VmUy1TOEhiSE9yb0E4LVZWMVprckViQUdJUVhQVHlWVUFheEV1cmxndEZiUzBrTXEyRFB0YzZYU29DRkRYS0t1RkFESDB6SThrc0Z1Zl92TnFEQV9lTTdHZmlRWkM2Y2Q5ZXUtM0pvWWR4clRhWE13c2lseGNmS2huS3MzVlZNbC1RUUZrTXAwYXN2WWttMzV5NWhhR2MzNFU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and &#8217;70s, dies at age 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Sedaka, singer of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, dies at 86&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCNeil Sedaka, US singer and songwriter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-306185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}