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There's also a planned musical based on his early life, "Laughter in the Rain," covering his heady days atop the charts in the '50s and early '60s and as a Brill Building songwriter at age 19, before the Beatles and other British invaders edged out the early rockers.
There were later successes as well with the help of Elton John's Rocket Records and the Sedaka-penned Captain & Tennille hit "Love Will Keep Us Together." Retirement isn't in Sedaka's future. "It's nice to be a legend, but it's better to be a working legend," he said. "I'm very fortunate that my voice has held." ___ Online:
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