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Neil Sedaka: An appreciation

CBS News·David Pogue·7 months ago
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David Pogue

Correspondent, "CBS Sunday Morning"

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED speaker, and host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS. For 13 years, he wrote a New York Times tech column every week - and for 10 years, a Scientific American column every month.

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March 1, 2026 / 9:52 AM EST / CBS News

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Neil Sedaka was one of America's most popular singer-songwriters, twice!

As a boy growing up in Brooklyn, his talent was hard to miss. "I was a child prodigy," he told "Sunday Morning" in 2020. "I started at nine years old. Got a scholarship to the prep school of Julliard."

When he was 13, he met a kid in his apartment building named Howard Greenfield.…

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