Sinatra
In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, ''I''m going to be the best singer in the world''. Two years on, the bobbysoxers were already weeping and screaming for him in their thousands. Half a century on Bono defined him as ''the Big Bang of popular music''. ''To hell with the calendar,'' a music critic wrote before his death in 1998, ''The day Frank Sinatra dies, the twentieth century i...
In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, ''I''m going to be the best singer in the world''. Two years on, the bobbysoxers were already weeping and screaming for him in their thousands. Half a century on Bono defined him as ''the Big Bang of popular music''. ''To hell with the calendar,'' a music critic wrote before his death in 1998, ''The day Frank Sinatra dies, the twentieth century i...
