the stage in Las Vegas for a three-night engagement to a sold-out audience. He continued to perform internationally and returned to tour Australia in 2014. Rydell died from complications of pneumonia at Jefferson Abington Hospital on April 5, 2022, at the age of 79. Media In the Broadway musical drama Grease, its film adaptation, and the film's sequel Grease 2, the high school was named "Rydell High" after Rydell. In 2000, in the book The Beatles Anthology (p. 96), Paul McCartney said: John [Lennon] and I wrote "She Loves You" together. There was a Bobby Rydell song out at the time and, as often happens, you think of one song when you write another. We'd planned an "answering song" where a couple of us would sing "she loves you" and the other ones would answer "yeah yeah". We decided that was a crummy idea but at least we then had the idea of a song called "She Loves You". So we sat in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it—John and I, sitting on twin beds with guitars. No specific song title is given in The Beatles Anthology, but Bob Spitz writes in The Beatles: The Biography that McCartney originally modeled "She Loves You" on the Rydell "answering song" called "Swingin' School", and not "Forget Him", as is commonly cited. In the Oscar-winning film Green Book (2018), Rydell is portrayed in the opening scenes by actor Von Lewis. Albums discography Source: We Got Love (1959) Bobby Sings, Bobby Swings (1960) Bobby's Biggest Hits (1961) (U.S. No. 12) Bobby Rydell Salutes the Great Ones (1961) Rydell at the Copa (1961) (U.S. No. 56) Bobby Rydell/Chubby Checker (1961) (U.S. No. 7) Twistin (1962) Venise (also includes tracks by Barry Norman and Stephen Garrick) All the Hits (1962) (U.S. No. 88) Bobby's Biggest Hits Vol. 2 (1962) (U.S. No. 61) All the Hits Vol. 2 (1962) Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Wild (Wood) Days (1963) Chubby Checker & Bobby Rydell (1963) Top Hits of 1963 (1963) (U.S. No. 67) Forget Him (1964) (U.S. No. 98) 16 Golden Hits (1965) Somebody Loves You (1965) Born With a Smile (1976)(1999) Best of Bobby Rydell (1976) (AUS No. 87) Bobby Rydell at His Best: Today and Yesterday (1983) Best of Bobby Rydell (2000) Prestige Now and Then (2000) Para Group International The Complete Bobby Rydell on Capitol (2001) Collectors' Choice Cameo Parkway 1959–1964: Best