Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Singer-Songwriter, and Legendary Artist Neil Sedaka, Dead at 86

Neil Sedaka started his career in 1952, at the age of 13. I can't remember what I was doing at that age, but it certainly wasn't crafting No. 1 hits that would be sung and recorded for decades. With his songwriting partner Howard Greenfield, Sedaka pinned 10 number one hits alone between 1958 and…