It is an undercurrent that, in song, is redirected inwards. We may have heard stories of Sinatra sending an uncomplimentary journalist a tombstone with her name on it, or instructing his driver to go through - not around - the reporters who swarmed him but, in his music, the sense of danger attached to his persona as a star becomes something more abstract. It heightens his performances, making each great song of lost love or longing sound as grand and as important as lost love or longing feels.
excerpt from
Sinatra and the Mob
Yo Zushi
New Statesman
2015
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2015/12/sinatra-and-mob
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