Frank Sinatra

[Baboontyme 2809]

I'm not much of a music guy, but one person that I have been intrigued by since I was in college is Sinatra. I dig some of his songs, but the reason for this post is this article I stumbled upon in Esquire yesterday. I found it absolutely fascinating. It is a very long read, but extremely well done in my opinion. You can read the intro but the TL;DR is this reporter was tasked with writing a sort of biographical article/interview of Sinatra. Sinatra had a cold and was surly so he wouldn't do the interview. So the reporter pieced this together based off of observing the man himself and interviewing those around him. I was not alive during that era but I can easily piece some of these settings together in my mind reading this piece. Take the time to read it if you are interested at all in Sinatra. 

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-a-cold-gay-talese/

[GhostOfTomJoad 9323]

If you read anything this year, read that. Spectacular journalism.

[Robin Masters 122]

I remember reading this a few years ago when it was on this list.

http://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever/

Some other great ones in there.

 

[Armybrat 40814]

On 5/18/2018 at 11:20 PM, Baboontyme said:

I'm not much of a music guy, but one person that I have been intrigued by since I was in college is Sinatra. I dig some of his songs, but the reason for this post is this article I stumbled upon in Esquire yesterday. I found it absolutely fascinating. It is a very long read, but extremely well done in my opinion. You can read the intro but the TL;DR is this reporter was tasked with writing a sort of biographical article/interview of Sinatra. Sinatra had a cold and was surly so he wouldn't do the interview. So the reporter pieced this together based off of observing the man himself and interviewing those around him. I was not alive during that era but I can easily piece some of these settings together in my mind reading this piece. Take the time to read it if you are interested at all in Sinatra. 

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-a-cold-gay-talese/