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Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years (Capitol)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, January 1999
Box set featuring all twenty Capitol albums 1953-61 plus rarities disc ...
List of articles in the library
Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr.: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 20 April 1989
Come to the cabaret, old chums. Adam Sweeting gets a kick out of Liza, Sammy and a revitalised Frank Sinatra at the Albert Hall. ...
Nancy Sinatra: Nancy Sets The Record Straight About Frank
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 20 May 1967
"I had to drag dad bodily into the studios to record 'Stupid'." ...
Frank Sinatra: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 7 June 1975
Charming Frank ...
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, July 1990
VOGUE once said of Frank Sinatra that "the Voice is leading cool moderns back to emotion". Looking around at the well-heeled sentimentalists and legend-seekers at ...
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Capitol 75' (Taschen), 2016
NOTE: Herewith the full "director's cut" version of the historical essay I contributed to the spectacularly lavish Taschen book marking the 75th anniversary of West ...
Overview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 12 January 1985
From the raw to the pure, from the sublime to the meticulous — BARNEY HOSKYNS sings the praises of 24 of music's most glorious voices. ...
Stan Britt: Sinatra – A Celebration
Book Review by Chris Ingham, Jazz on CD, February 1996
ON FINISHING Kitty Kelley's depressing, unrelentingly seamy His Way, you were so stuffed full of (alleged) details concerning the less admirable aspects of Sinatra's remarkable ...
The Best of Frank Sinatra: A Home Taping Special
Guide by Chris Ingham, MOJO, 1999
BECAUSE OF THE near-flawless nature of a handful of albums (Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin' Lovers, A Swingin' Affair, Only The Lonely), it would ...
Frank Sinatra: Palladium, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 29 November 1975
ENFORCED AUDIENCE IDENTIFICATION – that's what this "black tie" demand on the ticket is. Imagine reading "gauche gaucho" on Roxy tickets or "sequined jockstrap" on ...
Obituary by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
IN A SENSE, Frank Sinatra represented a lie. Much as beneath Bing Crosby's ambling, indolent persona lay a pointedly less easy-going character, Sinatra was actually ...
Paul drops in at a Beach Boys recording session
Report by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967
DEREK TAYLOR reporting from Hollywood on a meeting of the giants ...
Frank Sinatra: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 30 September 1982
Sinatra at the Amphitheatre: The Voice of America ...
The Rat Pack: Boys Keep Swinging
Retrospective by Dorian Lynskey, Q, February 2002
They were a gang of hard-drinking, soft-crooning, middle-aged smart alecs, and they were the walking, talking, wise-cracking definition of cool. Now, half a century later, ...
Readers' Letters by Fred Dellar, Record Mirror, 28 April 1962
ALTHOUGH there is a fair amount of truth in Peter Jones's article "Standard Slipping, Mr. Sinatra?" I'm afraid be is in the position of a ...
Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years
Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 13 September 1975
YEARS IS JUST one enormous sampler really – a fifty-track, four album, boxed set containing cuts from nearly every album Sinatra's made for Reprise since ...
Juggy Gayles: Leader of the Old School
Profile and Interview by Holly George-Warren, Rolling Stone, 24 March 1994
JUGGY GAYLES hyped records the old-fashioned way-with style ...
Essay by Ian Penman, London Review of Books, 2 July 2015
REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY is a now largely forgotten 1943 film starring Ann Miller and the great Franklin Pangborn. Worked up from an equally forgotten US ...
Report by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 24 November 1967
'COME FILM WITH ME' ROW From IVOR DAVIS, HOLLYWOOD, Thursday ...
Interview by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 8 February 1966
FRANK'S DAUGHTER REACHES THE TOP ...
Nelson Algren's The Man With The Golden Arm
Retrospective by James Maycock, The Guardian, 1998
How Nelson Algren's acclaimed novel was made into Hollywood's first film about heroin. ...
Frank Sinatra: She Shot Me Down (Reprise)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, April 1982
IF, AS THE THEORY GOES, there's a little bit of Van Halen in everyone come Saturday night, then you can safely bet your last dollar ...
Frank Sinatra: Duets (Capitol Records)
Review by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 October 1993
Frank Sinatra Does It His Way On Duet Album; Ol' Blue Eyes outshines 13 stars ...
The Godfather Of Swing: Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years (Capitol)
Review by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 12 January 1991
"HEY KIDS, dig the first takes/Ain't that some interpretation/When Sinatra sings against Nelson Riddle strings/Then takes a vacation" (Van Morrison: 'Hard Nose The Highway') ...
Frank Sinatra: The First Definitive Performances
Review by Lenny Kaye, Wondering Sound, 22 April 2011
MEET Young Frank, before the N. Stein that is his iconic cross to bear. Sometimes the Rat Pack genuflect and sharkskin persona that characterizes mid-century-and-beyond ...
Frank Sinatra: Watertown (Reprise 1031 American copy)
Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 9 May 1970
Bloodshot emotion and cool nonchalance ...
Stars Turn Out For Grammys: Standing Ovation For Herb Alpert
Report by Louise Criscione, Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 9 April 1966
HOLLYWOOD: In the finest tradition of glittering Hollywood premieres and openings, the Eighth Annual Grammy Awards were presented in the International Ballroom of the Beverly ...
Frank Sinatra: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 7 June 1975
Forever doobeedoobee beedoobeedoo ...
Frank Sinatra: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978
"SINATRA IS Sinatra, and this is perfect," someone once wrote about one of his movies. That sentence would, I imagine, sum up the feelings of ...
Frank Sinatra with Quincy Jones and Orchestra: L.A. Is My Lady (Quest)
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, December 1984
FRANKIE RUNS OVER HOLLYWOOD ...
Frank Sinatra and Count Basie: Sinatra-Basie: An Historical Musical First (Reprise)
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 February 1963
Sinatra-Basie in Depth: Peter Jones highlights a Great New Album from Sinatra and The Count ...
Your Guide to the Week's New Singles: The Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Cream et al
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 25 May 1968
THE ROLLING STONES: 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'; 'Child Of The Moon' (Decca F 12 782). Back to their famous rhythm and blues oriented sound here from the ...
Frank Sinatra: A Man And His Music (Reprise R 1016); My Kind Of Broadway (Reprise R 1015)
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 15 January 1966
3 from Frank ...
Essay by Peter Silverton, The Observer, 17 May 1998
As songs go, 'My Way' doesn't so much wear its heart on its sleeve as rip it from its chest, throw it down and shout: ...
Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan: Palladium, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 15 November 1975
THE EMERGENCE of Frank Sinatra from retirement has become as regular a ceremony as when Lloyd George or Churchill used to be wheeled out on ...
Frank Sinatra: Palladium, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1974
THE EMERGENCE of Frank Sinatra from retirement has become as regular a ceremony as when Lloyd George or Churchill used to be wheeled out on ...
Frank Sinatra: Songs For Young Lovers and other Capitol reissues
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 22 September 1984
BECAUSE SINATRA has lasted so long, has outlived his own legend – to the point where he can make a record with Quincy Jones and ...
Frank Sinatra/Don Rickles: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
Live Review by Richard Gehr, Spin, January 1994
"HE TOUCHES his dick more than Robin Williams does," mocked my wife as a tuxedoed Don Rickles lumbered around the square, center-court stage like a ...
Sinatra Crooned, World Swooned
Obituary by Tim Page, The Washington Post, 16 May 1998
HE CALLED himself a mere "saloon singer" from Hoboken, New Jersey. But Frank Sinatra, who died late Thursday at the age of 82, was much ...
Frank Sinatra: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, August 1974
FOR A MOMENT, it seemed that the entire white population of Carle Place, Uniondale and environs had migrated across the parkway green en masse to ...
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