Frank Sinatra

by Derek Jewell

(Applause Books). Frank Sinatra's work has crossed decades and generations. From the early song hits right up to his recent death, the Chairman of the Board reinterpreted classics to make them his own. His acting career was equally successful, Jewell looks at the fascination of Sinatra, including his four marriages, his close association with the fabled Rat Pack, and his political allegiances from Jack and Bobby up to Ron and Nancy.

2 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1985

About the author

A British journalist, newspaper executive, broadcaster and music critic. A music critic for the London Sunday Times for twenty-three years from 1963, Jewell wrote extensively about jazz, and also introduced British audiences to avant garde jazz, rock and improvisational music, especially through live performances on his BBC Radio 3 show Sounds Interesting.

Reviews

[J.S. Bratton · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ok, this is actually a 1st for me on GR: a book w/o reviews or ratings. It has been a few years since I read this one, and I can recall few, if any details from it's stiff, cheap, sloppily glued pages and brittle spine. A completely, and convincingly(sic) unremarkable work that appears to have been researched using tabloid articles culled from mid-60s teen-magazines and TV-movie-of-the-week melodramas. A quick and pathetic money-grab that has been forgotten, as it should be, made apparent to me by the obvious fact that, I, late to GR as I am, that I wrote this sh!tty book's first review here. I'll always have this triumph: A Sad & Bitter Rant hidden behind a "review" of some sort, unremarkable, much like the source material, but I can easily rest assured, that like the book itself, My Two-Cents worth of nothing, will also be forgotten like so many toilet tissues flushed down the drain.