THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA. EPISODE 1 “And when the guy with the scythe comes to pull my sleeve, I’ll go away singing.”(“Before The Music Ends”, Frank Sinatra, 1979) In 1990, Frank Sinatra will turn seventy-five years old and…
YOU WILL BE MY MUSICSinatra sings Joe Raposo (3) By Mahnuel Muñoz When the album “Ol’Blue Eyes Is Back” hit stores in October 1973, the United States was reeling from the Watergate scandal and the oil crisis. For many, reuniting…
YOU WILL BE MY MUSICSinatra Sings Joe Raposo (2) By Mahnuel Muñoz After a brief retirement in 1971, which did not last even two years, Frank Sinatra found the answers to many of his existential questions by singing live for…
YOU WILL BE MY MUSICSinatra sings Joe Raposo (1) By Manuel Muñoz. Frank Sinatra began the 1970s mired in the momentous dilemma of whether or not to continue his career. Despite being still young – 54 years old – he…
Bruce Springsteen’s favorite song. (JOE TYSOM, FAR OUT MAGAZINE,December 8, 2022) Bruce Springsteen is one of New Jersey’s favorite sons. His hometown has shaped him immeasurably into the person, as well as the artist, that he is. Additionally, New Jersey…
SINATRA LEAVES HIS MARK AT GRAUMAN’S By Mahnuel Muñoz On July 20, 1965, Frank Sinatra stamped his signature, his handprints and his footprints on the sidewalk in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Grauman’s Chinese Theater (today TCL Chinese…
“THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM” By Mahnuel Muñoz In 1955 Frank Sinatra, in addition to being on the front line of music, is one of the most sought-after and prolific film stars in the world, releasing no less than…
SINATRA’S SINATRA By Mahnuel Muñoz Sinatra reinterpreting himself. A constant in the Voice’s career Recording previously immortalized songs again and making it something enriching is not within everyone’s reach. You will all remember the tremendous success of their “Duets” albums…
Something about “Something” By Mahnuel Muñoz George Harrison was called “The Quiet Beatle” because in public he was not as jovial and expansive as his bandmates. His clean and measured spirit was reflected in his songs, and especially in his…
SILENCE IS GOLDEN By Mahnuel Muñoz Outside of the musical context, there were times when Frank Sinatra was better off if he was quiet.One of the times when talking too much cost the singer a real fortune was in the…
TOMMY DORSEY By Mahnuel Muñoz Tommy Dorsey (Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr.), was born on November 19, 1905 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. His father, a miner by profession, was a part-time musician, first teaching Tommy to play the trumpet, before he decided…
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, MadridSeptember 25, 1986 By Mahnuel Muñoz On December 17, 2019, Arsenio Marcos Rodríguez died at the age of 76 in the Spanish city of Bilbao, whose name, until today, will be unknown to the vast majority, and…
