In your new book, ''Lady Blue Eyes,'' you describe one of your earliest visits to Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs home, when you were still married to his neighbor, Zeppo Marx. You were keeping time for a charades game, and when you called time on Sinatra, he grabbed a clock from your hands and smashed it against a door. You never thought, Wow,...
TO the best of my knowledge, Frank Sinatra acknowledged the existence of rap music only once in his life: at the lavish 1995 tribute in honor of his 80th birthday, after the hip-hop trio Salt-n-Pepa performed a special-lyrics version of their hit ''Whatta Man,'' he turned to his wife, Barbara, and said, ''Marvelous.'' That was, in all probability,...
FRANK The Voice By James Kaplan Illustrated. 786 pp. Doubleday. $35 Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Maria Callas, Judy Garland, Jack Kerouac: these and other giants of popular culture were long ago explored to death, yet biographers keep struggling to give the old stories a new spin. With most of the eyewitnesses gone, however, and the tattered...
Frank Sinatra (12. december 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey – 14. maj 1998, Sinai Hospital, Beverly Hills) var en amerikansk sanger og skuespiller.
Kendt som crooneren over alle croonere, men var i virkeligheden fantastisk kontrolleret. Han sang primært sange fra "The American Songbook". Han indspillede en lang række film og fik en Oscar for sin rolle i Herfra til evigheden og en Emmy for The House We Live In.
Han var gift fire gange: Nancy, Ava, Mia og Barbara. Med Nancy fik han børnene Nancy, Frank Jr. og Tina.
Han er kendt for sange som bl.a.: My way, New york, New York, Strangers in the Night og "That's life". I 2008 blev der udgivet et opsamlingsalbum med Sinatras bedste sange samt 12 uudgivede julesange. Albummet hedder "Nothing but the Best".
Det hævdes, at Frank Sinatras berømte My Way er den mest spillede sang til amerikanske begravelser. Fold ud