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More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him—a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now.
From Sinatra's closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol that offers "new information on almost every page" (The Wall Street Journal). Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse—about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they'd led, the lives they wished they'd led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world's biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft.
Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer's hand when he drew his last breath.
"Frank Sinatra fans, pull up a chair and let longtime confidante and road manager Tony Oppedisano regale you with tales from the entertainer's inner circle" (Parade magazine)—Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain on a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781797119113
- File size: 304644 KB
- Duration: 10:34:40
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- English
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May 17, 2021
Oppedisano debuts with a remarkable look at the final years of one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The author was in his early 20s playing gigs at jazz clubs in New York when he met Frank Sinatra in 1972, “in the middle of his self-imposed (and short-lived) retirement,” and became part of the singer’s entourage. By the mid-’70s, he’d joined Sinatra’s comeback tour as road manager. Throughout, Oppedisano describes countless late-night sessions spent talking and drinking with the notorious night owl, reminiscing about the singer’s past glories performing with friend and prankster Dean Martin (who once gave Sinatra a mood ring so he could “know whether I’m addressing Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde”). In a moving recollection of the singer’s final concerts, he recalls Sinatra’s decision to wind down his performances after returning from a tour in Japan in 1994: “He wasn’t willing to perform as a shadow of his former self.” As Sinatra’s health deteriorated, Oppedisano became a trusted aide to his daughters, Nancy and Tina, and to Sinatra’s wife, Barbara—the only other person with him when the singer, whom Oppedisano “loved like a second father,” died. This fascinating and intimate account stands out among the dozens of books written about the celebrated legend. Agent: Alan Nevins, Renaissance Literary and Talent.
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