At the end of last week, another of the big names of pop passed on - a man who has written, sung on or played piano with and on, many of the great acts and popular pop tunes of the last sixty-five years. So, this time as we find a way via our Six(ish) Degrees towards shoegaze king Kevin Shields - we start off with our tribute to Neil Sedaka. Photo: RCA Neil Sedaka was born in Brooklyn in 1939, with Lebanese Jewish paternal grandparents who had arrived from Istanbul in 1910,