Neil Sedaka was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Pop singer and composer of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" in 1962, Neil Sedaka
has had nine #1 hits like "Bad Blood" and "Laughter in the Rain." His mother
worked a part time job to pay for the family’s first piano. Neil attended the
Juilliard School of Music’s Preparatory Division for Children. Sedaka’s career
has spanned more than fifty years and he’s written with lyricists Howard 
Greenfield and Phil Cody.

 
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MIKE GRACIA

Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley)
(September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963)

The Beatles cover song, “Twist and Shout” was released with "There’s a
Place" as its B-side, by Chicago–based Vee-Jay Records on the Tollie label,
it reached number 2 on April 4, 1964, during the week that the top five spots
on the chart were all Beatles singles (in the Cashbox singles chart for the
same week, "Twist and Shout" was No. 1). In the U.S., "Twist and Shout"
was the only million-selling Beatles single that was a cover record, and
the only Beatles cover single to reach the Top 10 on a national record
chart. The song failed to hit #1 because the Beatles had another song
occupying the top spot, "Can’t Buy Me Love".

From left: Waylon Jennings and Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’s first recording
session, of "Jole Blon" and "When Sin Stops
(Love Begins)". Holly also hired Jennings to
play electric bass for him during his "Winter
Dance Party Tour" in 1959.

David Bowie (David Robert Jones) (January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016)

NEW YORK (AP) — David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop
and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking
visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died
of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and had just released a new album.

Representative Stave Martin said Bowie, whose hits included "Fame,"
”Heroes" and "Let’s Dance," died "peacefully" and was surrounded
by family. He had fought cancer for 18 months.