{"id":449877,"date":"2026-02-28T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449877\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:23:07","slug":"legendary-singer-songwriter-dies-at-86-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449877\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary singer-songwriter dies at 86 &#8211; The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxPaS1zY05TRm85ZTI2dWpudF94a0xJN3I2MlVHeC1UMHRhazliZTNaMFlOWmpYOFVlU1dIMjJaQ3dxWmVBQmpkU3lXRXd5MXFvVFRuVnE2OUU0WE1Yei00T2NQVFQ5V3JnYUd6bUM4VURRT2EtT1lvTC1PaGRlRF80OXE0bVNWVXFFTjk2TTc3dGRrZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Legendary singer-songwriter dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTE00TjNxbVVzZ0NMYVRRdmFRajg5OGlzcm8waVo0N3ZEbzktbGdJY2JhR3hxeDZ1VGNSQ0hBVG5JVDF0NUFOY1JacXJibUNWUHFaM2dDYUVQeFRuenlf?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\/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\/CBMidEFVX3lxTE0tLUJaZkNka3A1NE5LTF9sdk85NEpTQVJoTUtyTjlYcVdGZ3BwYkgzU3prMHBVb1RmcDg3WHVLcnN3ZmhQTEhtcHdwM2JTbjNvWWxmY216d2JmQTc1TGtrcE0zYVZ1LWMwcjM4bnBSa2NyQzA3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and \u201870s, dies at age 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CNN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMid0FVX3lxTE8xZGVld0lpaTUwLXBETTc5bTVxX3RLMGgyN05xLWY3WHpxZkpRLVZRa3BFX3pDRFptbEY0czN1Q29HNXFRUmxMZHF4bWo2X3luWDl3X21DU0JZSnVmbmZnUEhVS2NvX0VScTlJdWVXVUc3MVVIRmlv?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neil Sedaka: 14 Essential Songs<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary singer-songwriter dies at 86&nbsp;&nbsp;The IndependentNeil Sedaka, singer of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, dies at 86&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCNeil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-449877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}