In 1990 Neil Sedaka was due to appear in Ireland, so we did this fifteen-minute phone interview for The Irish Times. As a child I loved some of Sedaka's earliest hits, then, as a teenager, I bought his comeback albums such as Emergence and I noted on a johnny Mathis album my dad owned that Sedaka composed a great song called The Wolrd I Threw Away. And all of this was before his comeback with classic sings such as Solitaire, which was recorded by, among a million other singers, Elvis, in a version Sedka says here he didn't like. We also talk about his music overall and what had been recent gay rumours surrounding the death of his long-time co-writer Howard Greenfield. I am posting this podcast about Sedaka because I see that he is one of the few performers giving free gigs from home during the pandemic. No doubt he is being discovered by many people.