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Articles on Frank Sinatra
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For decades, presidents and presidential aspirants have tried (with varying degrees of success) to use music and musicians to connect with voters.
Former President Donald Trump’s mug shot is in line with the traditional mug shots that arrested people first took in the mid-1800s and early 1900s, a police photography expert explains.
The jazz singer saw renewed success late in life on the back of collaborations with an eclectic array of artists.
Nighttime is much more than a source of danger or an occasion to party – it’s a portal into a different world, with rhythms, challenges and lifestyles of its own.
Using cutting edge technology to construct ham-fisted duets with dead singers to boost sales is sad way to listen to great artists.
Many middle-class parents buy classical CDs because it is supposed to make their kids clever. But a jazz-loving academic has started using her favourite genre in early childhood learning.
His vocal chords haemorrhaged, he was dropped by Columbia records: in 1951, Sinatra’s career as America’s top pop singer seemed over.
In his roles, Frank Sinatra often embodied the outsider, the man excluded from America’s suburban success story.
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