The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks.

He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.

On his first solo album in 10 years, 'The Romantic,' Bruno Mars is basically offering a sequel to the '70s soul-revivalism he did with Silk Sonic.

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Across the 21st century as a soloist or in two other bands - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and the recent supergroup called ...