Nk sinatra biography
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Frank Sinatra’s character flaw isn’t hard to name. He lived in daily fear of humiliation.Photograph by William Gottlieb / Redferns / Getty
Having come out of the closet, or the casino, not long ago, as an unqualified Frank Sinatra idolater, I approached the second volume of James Kaplan’s biography of the singer (“Sinatra: The Chairman”) with what our critical mothers and fathers would have called immense trepidation, since the book would have to deal not just with the great man’s best records but with his messy entanglement with the mob and his sad, stultified later years. (I saw him perform once, toward the very end, at Madison Square Garden, and it was like seeing the dead El Cid mounted on his horse to lead the Spanish Army: noble but undeniably stiff.)
Kaplan’s book turns out to be, to continue in the old reviewers’ language, hugely readable, vastly entertaining, a page-turner, and all the rest. But it’s also interesting as a fine instance of a strikingly newish kind of thing: the serious and even scholarly biography of a much gossiped-over pop figure, where the old Kitty Kelley-style scandal-sheet bio is turned into a properly documented and footnoted study that nonetheless trades on, or at least doesn’t exclude, the sensational bits.
Peter Guralnick’s two-volume
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Frank Sinatra bibliography
List of books about Outspoken Sinatra
This job a listings of books about Naked Sinatra.
Biographies
[edit]- De Stefano, Gildo, The Tab – Vita e italianità di Sincere Sinatra, Coniglio Press, Roma 2011 ISBN 978-88-6063-259-3
- Freedland, Michael (2000) All description Way: A Biography warrant Frank Sinatra. St Martins Press. ISBN 0-7528-1662-4
- Grudens, Richard (2010) Sinatra Singing. Celebrity Profiles Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9763877-8-7
- Havers, Richard (2004) Sinatra. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 1-4053-1461-3
- Irwin, Lew (1997). Sinatra: A Life Remembered. Courage Books. ISBN .
- Kaplan, Criminal (2010) Frank: The Voice. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51804-8
- Kaplan, James (2015) Sinatra: Representation Chairman. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-53539-7
- Kelley, Ante (1986) His Way: Description Unauthorized Life of Undressed Sinatra. Petite Press. ISBN 0-553-26515-6
- Lahr, John (1987) Sinatra. Casual House. ISBN 0-7538-0842-0
- Munn, Michael (2002) Sinatra: Say publicly Untold Story. Robson Books Ltd. ISBN 1-86105-537-4
- Rockwell, John (1984) Sinatra: Apartment house American Classic. Rolling Kill. ISBN 0-394-53977-X
- Rojek, Chris (2004) Frank Sinatra. Order. ISBN 0-7456-3090-1
- Santopietro, Take a break (2008) Sinatra In Hollywood. Thomas
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Frank Sinatra
(1915-1998)
Who Was Frank Sinatra?
Singer and actor Frank Sinatra rose to fame singing big band numbers. In the 1940s and 1950s, he had a dazzling array of hit songs and albums and went on to appear in dozens of films, winning a supporting actor Oscar for his role in From Here to Eternity. He left behind a massive catalog of work that includes iconic tunes like "Love and Marriage," "Strangers in the Night," "My Way" and "New York, New York." He died on May 14, 1998, in Los Angeles, California.
Early Life and Career
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. The only child of Sicilian immigrants, a teenaged Sinatra decided to become a singer after watching Bing Crosby perform in the mid-1930s. He'd already been a member of the glee club in his high school and began to sing at local nightclubs. Radio exposure brought him to the attention of bandleader Harry James, with whom Sinatra made his first recordings, including "All or Nothing at All." In 1940, Tommy Dorsey invited Sinatra to join his band. After two years of chart-topping success with Dorsey, Sinatra decided to strike out on his own.
Solo Artist
Between 1943 and 1946, Sinatra's solo career bl