Forever No. 1: Neil Sedaka, ‘Bad Blood’

Forever No. 1: Neil Sedaka, ‘Bad Blood’

Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer — a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single — by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor Neil Sedaka, who died on Feb. 27 at age 86, by looking at his last of three No. 1 hits, the harder-edged “Bad Blood.” By September 1975, Seda…

In Memoriam: Neil Sedaka (1939-2026)

In a wide-ranging 2022 interview with MS NOW, Neil Sedaka reflected on his Brooklyn upbringing (“Carole King, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand lived across the street…I think there was something in the egg cream!”) and the legacy of music he’d created (“I think the songs will outlive me, so it’s a…