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…
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…
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…
“Portrait Of An Album/Sinatra Sings” (2017) By Mahnuel Muñoz Within the series of reissues of his television specials, in 2017 we had the pleasant surprise of having this title, which includes two documentaries; “Sinatra Sings” (2011) is a compilation of…
“IT’S UP TO YOU, NEW YORK” By Mahnuel Muñoz It is 44 years since the release of Sinatra’s version of “(Theme From) New York, New York.” Throughout these years, it has naturally been accepted as the unofficial anthem of the…
THE SCORSESE-DICAPRIO BIOPIC ABOUT SINATRA By Mahnuel Muñoz Now that news resurfaces of the possible filming of a biopic about Frank Sinatra directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as Sinatra and Ava Gardner respectively, it…
The “Ultimate Event” and Frank Sinatra’s last tours By Mahnuel Muñoz The “Ultimate Event” was created in 1988 to fulfill the concert agenda of the “Together Again Tour”, which was cut short with the departure of Dean Martin due to…
THE STORY BEHIND “STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT” By Mahnuel Muñoz On April 11, 1966, Frank Sinatra was in the United Recorders studios working with bandleader Donnie Lanier on a song arranged by Ernie Freeman. It was the first recording session…
In September 1984, my husband, Hugh, was diagnosed with throat cancer. My father was there with him throughout the entire ordeal. Hugh had eight weeks of radiation treatments to shrink the tumor. It was a nightmare. He suffered horrific burns…
THE CHAIRMAN AND THE PRESIDENT By Mahnuel Muñoz On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The event has not been, 55 years later, sufficiently explained beyond the numerous theories that have emerged taking the…
“THE RETIREMENT CONCERT” (1971) By Mahnuel Muñoz On June 13, 1971, Frank Sinatra gave the famous “retirement concert” at the Los Angeles Music Center, after announcing his desire to leave public life. Neither his followers nor his colleagues could believe…
