Singer preferred romantic ballads to the later classic
(NEWSER) - Frank Sinatra may have his hit "My Way" to thank for much of his success, but as the song reaches its 40th anniversary, Will Friedwald looks at the truth in the Wall Street Journal: Sinatra hated it. Even as audiences called for "My Way" in concert after concert, he bluntly moaned about it it. The problem, writes Friedwald, was that the anthem of self-celebration—"which led an entire generation to believe that Sinatra was a raging egomaniac"—just wasn't his style. More»
