Frank Sinatra – The Tragic Fate of His 3 Children HT

 

The phone rang at Frank Sinatra’s home at approximately 9:30 on the night of December 8th, 1963. He was 47 years old. He was by every measure available in December 1963. The most powerful entertainer in the world. The man who had invented the concept of the modern pop star who had survived the teenage idol years and the career collapse of the early 1950s and come back harder and stranger and more commanding than before.

 who owned a record label and had equity in a Lars Vegas casino and whose friendships extended from the Rat Pack to the Kennedy White House to the edges of the underworld in ways that were simultaneously a source of his power and a source of the specific danger that the power generated. He was expecting something else when he picked up the phone, not this.

 On the other end was a voice he did not know. The voice told him that his 19-year-old son, Frank Soninatra Jr., who had been performing at a nightclub in Lake Tahoe, had been abducted, that two men had entered his dressing room at Harris Club, tied and gagged his roommate, and walked out with Frank Junior at gunpoint, that the ransom was $240,000, and that if Frank Senior contacted the police, his son would not come back.

Frank Sinatra Senior stood in the room with the phone in his hand. Everything that constituted his life, the power, the connections, the specific quality of a man who did not under any circumstances allow himself to be publicly afraid, none of it was relevant in that moment. He was a father. His son was gone.

 The voice on the phone was asking for money and offering in exchange the life of a 19-year-old boy who had been born in 1944, who had grown up in the vast and difficult shadow of the name he carried, who had only just begun tentatively, and with the specific difficulty of a person for whom comparison is the permanent condition of existence to try to build something of his own.

 He paid he paid the $240,000 within 3 days. His son was released at the side of a Lowe’s Angel’s freeway on December 11th. Cold and frightened and physically unharmed. The kidnappers were caught, they were tried. One of them, in a moment that gives you everything you need to know about the specific absurdity of the crime, claimed during the trial that the kidnapping had been staged, that Frank Jr.

 had arranged his own abduction as a publicity stunt. The jury did not believe him. Frank Junior spent the rest of his life not believing and not forgiving that the accusation had been made. He was 19 years old. He had been held for 72 hours. He had been the target of a crime that exploited the fact of his father’s wealth and his father’s name.

 He had been released unharmed at the side of a freeway. And then the world, the press, the public, the specific appetite that celebrity generates for the details of celebrity suffering turned the most frightening experience of his life into a story about whether it was real, whether he was real, whether he was anything other than the son of the man whose name he carried.

 This is the story of the children of Frank Sinatra. Not the story of the man. The man has been told across a hundred biographies and documentaries and tribute concerts with the comprehensiveness that legends receive. But the story of the three people who were born to him and who spent their lives navigating the specific territory that being born to a legend creates.

 The territory in which your own life is always secondary to the life that preceded yours. In which the gravity of a name is so powerful that escape from it is not available. in which being loved by the world’s most famous man and being seen by him are not the same thing and are often in the specific way of men who belong primarily to their art and their appetites not even close.

 The voice and the empire Hobokin 1915 1960 Francis Albert Sinatra was born on the 12th of December 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. The only child of Natalie Garavanta and Anthony Martin Sinatra, Italian immigrants who lived above the bar that Natalie Dolly they called her, ran with a combination of energy and political ambition that was in retrospect clearly the source of her sons.

 Dolly Sinatra was not a warm woman in the conventional sense. She was a force. She was the person in any room who was running the room, and she had opinions about what her son should do with his life that were extensive and not always the same as his own. His own opinions about what he should do with his life were from early adolescence, absolute and unambiguous, he should sing.

 He had heard Bing Crosby on the radio and understood with the specific clarity of someone who has found the thing they were made for, that this was the thing he was made for. He taught himself to sing by listening to Crosby and by working with dance bands and by the specific method of very poor people who want something they cannot afford.

He borrowed sheet music and memorized it and returned it and borrowed more. He married Nancy Barbato in February 1939. He was 23 years old. She was 22. He was not famous yet. He had been singing with Harry James’s band and then Tommy Dorsey’s band. and the beginnings of something were visible to people who watched such things closely.

 But he was not yet what he would become. Nancy Barbato was the daughter of a plasterer from Jersey City, a small, dark, warm woman who loved him with a consistency that the subsequent decades would demonstrate was not a conditional love, and that he would not always deserve, and that she would maintain anyway. Their first child, Nancy Sandra, was born in June 1940. Frank Jr.

 was born in January 1944. Christina Tina was born in June 1948. By the time Tina was born, Frank Sinatra was the most famous entertainer in America. The screaming girls at the Paramount, the Bobby Soxers who fainted at his performances, the radio voice that reached everywhere. These were the conditions of her birth. She was born into the full weight of the fame with no memory of the person he had been before it arrived and no experience of a household not organized around its management. The marriage ended in 1951.

The ending was not a surprise to those who had watched closely. Frank Sinatra was a man of specific appetites, and the appetites did not remain domestic. And Nancy Barbato had been managing the results of the non-domemesticity for years with the grace and the patience of a woman who had decided that the marriage was worth preserving, and who did not stop deciding this until she had to.

 The ending was precipitated by his relationship with Arva Gardner, the actress, the woman of comparable beauty and comparable wildness, who was as different from Nancy Barbato as it was possible to be and the divorce that his relationship with Arva required. He married Ava Gardner in 1951. The marriage lasted until 1957. He married Mia Faroh in 1966.

 He married Barbara Marx in 1976 and remained married to her until his death. His children with Nancy were not his only children in the emotional sense of the word. They were across the decades of his subsequent marriages and his endless social world. A specific category of his life. The first family, the Hobokan family.

 The children who had been born before the full weight of what he would become had arrived and who grew up inside the weight without having chosen it. He loved them. This is the fact that every account of Frank Sinatra’s relationship with his children insists upon with the consistency that suggests genuine conviction. He loved his children.

 He was also by the same accounts not always present in the ways that love requires presence to be expressed. He was on the road. He was in the studio. He was in Las Vegas at the Sands in the company of Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. and the rotating cast of the social world he inhabited, which was large and loud and specifically incompatible with the domestic consistency that three children growing up in the shadow of an enormous fame required. He was everywhere.

 He was nowhere. Both of these things were true simultaneously, and the children lived inside the simultaneity, and the living of it shaped everything they became. Nancy Junior, the shadow and the song. Nancy Sandra Sinatra was born on the 8th of June 1940 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The first child and the one whose birth preceded the full explosion of her father’s fame.

 She was 3 years old during the Paramount Performances 7 when her parents’ marriage began its visible deterioration. 11 when it ended and by the time she was a teenager she was the daughter of the most famous entertainer in America who had left her mother for Arva Gardner and who was now living the life that the fame made available to him.

 She has spoken about this period in various interviews across her adult life with a specificity that suggests she has thought about it carefully across the decades. She has described the specific experience of being the daughter of Frank Sinatra in terms that complicate the surface account. That he was generous materially and that the generosity was real.

 That he called, that he was present at the events that required presence. But that presence and the specific quality of attention that a child requires from a parent are not the same thing. And that the quality of attention was for his children complicated by the fact that the attention was always also being given to. so many other things.

 She tried to be a singer. The trying was, by any objective assessment, not as strange as the public reception of it sometimes suggested. She had a genuine voice, a real sense of musical style, and the ability to perform with the ease of someone who had been around performers her entire life. She also had the name, which meant that everything she did was compared to what the name had produced before she arrived and that the comparison was not one she could win because the comparison was not one that could be won. The song came in 1966.

These boots are made for walk-in written by Lee Hazwood was a number one single in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was an enormous commercial success, one of the defining pop songs of the mid 1960s with the specific quality of knowing irony and female confidence that the era was developing. She performed it with a wit that was entirely her own, the slight smile, the theatrical delivery, the understanding that she was inhabiting a persona that was distinct from the daughter of Sonatra persona, and that the inhabiting

was both liberation and its own kind of performance. The success was real. It also produced in the press the specific coverage that famous daughters receive. Coverage that framed the success in relation to the father that noted his reaction that measured her achievement against his that made the story about him even when the story was supposed to be about her.

 She had made a number one record. The coverage was about what Frank thought. She built a career, a genuine one, sustained across decades, that included film work and continued recording, and a public presence that she maintained with the grace of someone who has learned to navigate the specific difficulty of being primarily legible in relation to someone else.

 She is in her 80s, still present, still engaged, still the keeper of a version of the Sinatra story that is her story as much as his. She also raised children of her own. She has spoken about the specific challenge of giving her children what she received in abundance, material comfort, the cultural legacy of a famous grandfather and also what she received in insufficient quantity, the dailiness of a father’s presence.

 The ordinary consistency of being fully seen by the person who is supposed to be fully seeing you. She has said that this the translation of what she had experienced into what she wanted to give differently was one of the organizing projects of her adult life. She watched her mother Nancy Barbato Sinatra is in the account that Nancy Junior has given across the decades the stable center of the story.

The woman who maintained the household and raised the children and did not. despite the divorce and the subsequent marriages and the world her former husband inhabited become bitter in the ways that bitterness is available to people who have reason for it. She died in 2018 at the age of 101. Her daughter described her in the tribute she wrote as the woman who taught her everything about grace.

 Grace under the specific pressure of being Frank Sinatra’s ex-wife, his first family, the woman who was there before the fame consumed everything. This is the inheritance Nancy Jr. received most fully. She has used it. Frank Jr., the name he carried. Frank Wayne Sinatra Jr. was born on the 10th of January, 1944 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

 He was named for his father in the way that sons are named for fathers who are at the time of naming. not yet fully what they will become with the straightforward expectation that a name is a gift that carrying a father’s name is an honor that the name will be a help rather than the weight it becomes. He was 9 months old when his father stood at the Paramount and the girls screamed.

 He was 8 years old when his parents divorced. He was 19 years old when the kidnappers came to his dressing room at Harris Club. The dressing room he was performing. He had been performing for 2 years by December 1963. had been singing professionally since 1961 when he was 17 years old.

 With the specific combination of ability and desire and the terror of the alternative, what else do you do if you are Frank Sinatra’s son and you have a voice? That had pushed him toward music. He was performing because it was what he knew. He was performing because the voice was real. He had inherited something genuine from the man whose name he carried.

 A baritone of real quality that was recognizably from the same place as his father’s without being the same as his fathers. He was performing at Harris Club in Lake Tahoe when Bari Keenan, Joe Amsler, and John Irwin came to his dressing room. They were not professional criminals. Keenan was 23 years old, a former high school friend of Nancy Junior’s, a young man who had made and lost money in real estate, and who was in December 1963 drug adultled and financially desperate and in possession of what he believed was a foolproof plan. The plan was take

Frank Sinatra Jr., ask Frank Sinatra Senior for money, receive money, return son. It worked in the sense that the money was paid and the son was returned. It did not work in the sense that all three men were arrested within days of the ransom payment, tried and convicted. What did not work for Frank Junior in the decades that followed was the reputation.

 The trial included the testimony of the defense, the claim that the kidnapping had been staged, that Junior had arranged his own abduction for publicity. The claim was false. The jury said so. The stain persisted. He spent the rest of his career fighting a perception that he was not a real musician, that his career was a performance, that whatever genuine talent he had was insufficient to stand on its own.

 Whether this was true, whether Frank Sinatra Jr. was a genuinely talented musician who was simply unable to separate himself from the comparison is a question the historical record answers in a complicated way. He was talented. He was not his father. The distance between those two facts is the distance in which he lived his professional life.

 He became his father’s musical director in 1988, a role he held for the last decade of Frank Senior’s performing career, conducting the orchestra that accompanied his father on tour. The relationship this created was intimate and complex. The son conducting the orchestra for the father’s performance, present at every show, managing the musical machinery of the man whose musical machinery he had spent his career being compared to and found wanting.

 Those who were on the road with them in those years describe a relationship that was real and warm and also irreducibly complicated by everything it had been. Father and son, employer and employee, the great talent and the lesser talent, the name and the inheritor of the name. all of these things simultaneously for the decade that ended with Frank Senior’s death in 1998.

Frank Jr. died on March 16, 2016 at the age of 72 of cardiac arrest while on tour he was performing. He died as he had lived in the specific territory of a man who loved music and who spent his professional life in the gravitational field of his father’s music, unable to fully separate himself from it and unwilling to entirely try.

 He had been 19 years old on the night the phone rang. He had been released at the side of a freeway on December 11th. He had lived 53 more years inside the name, carrying the kidnapping and the accusation and the comparison and the musical directorship and the love that was complicated by everything it was entangled with.

 He was never simply Frank. He was always Frank Junior. Tina the keeper of the empire Christina Sinatra Tina was born on the 20th of June 1948 at Cedar of Lebanon Hospital in Lowe’s Angels. She was the youngest and she was born into the full weight of a fame that had by 1948 already transformed her father from a New Jersey kid into an American institution.

She was born knowing or learning very quickly that the household she was part of was not a household in the normal sense. It was an operation, a management structure for the maintenance and deployment of one of the most commercially valuable human beings in America. She has described her father in the memoir she published in 2000 with the specific combination of love and cleareyed accounting that children who have had time to understand their parents’ limitations and who have decided that the understanding does not

cancel the love sometimes achieve. She loved him. She also saw him with a precision that sentimentality does not usually produce. She wrote about the absences, the marriages, the specific quality of being loved by a man whose capacity for love was genuine and whose capacity for presence was limited by the nature of what he was.

 She became his manager in the informal sense and then his advocate and her father’s principal producer in the business sense. She produced the television biographies that have shaped the popular understanding of his life. Sinatra, the 1992 television minisseries, and the rat pack, the 1998 film that covered the Lars Vega’s years.

These productions were made with the access that a daughter has to a father’s archive and with the perspective of someone who understood what she wanted the world to know about him and what she did not want the world to know. She also fought for control of his estate. The fighting has been documented in various legal proceedings and in the accounts of those who were involved in the management of the Sinatra estate after his death in 1998.

And it is the specific kind of fighting that happens in very wealthy families after a very wealthy patriarch dies. The fighting over what he meant and who gets to say what he meant and who controls the commercial expression of what he meant. His wife at his death was Barbara Mark Sinatra whom he had married in 1976.

The relationship between the children from the first marriage, Nancy Frank Junior, Tina, and the wife from the fourth marriage is the relationship that the estate fighting reveals. Not a relationship of warmth or not of uncomplicated warmth. a relationship complicated by the question of access of loyalty of who was closest to him in the final years and what that proximity means for the subsequent management of the legacy.

 Tina fought she has said so she has written about it. She is not someone who presents the post-death management of her father’s legacy as having proceeded smoothly because it did not proceed smoothly and because saying it did would be a lie and she is not a person who tells convenient lies about the important things.

 What she has built across the decades since his death is the official version, the version of Frank Sinatra that is licensed and authorized and commercially maintained. The image writes, “The musical catalog, the use of the voice and the face in advertising and in cultural contexts. This version is the one that generates the millions of dollars annually that the estate produces.

 And it is a version that reflects in its careful management and its selective emphasis, the daughter’s understanding of what the father was and what she wants him to be remembered as. Whether the version is complete, whether any officially managed legacy can be complete is the question that the biographies she did not produce, the ones written without her cooperation are trying to answer.

 She has three children of her own. She has spoken about the challenge of giving them what she wanted to give them, the connection to who their grandfather actually was beneath the legend without being destroyed by the legend. She has wanted them to know him as a person rather than as Frank Sinatra and the wanting and the having are different things.

 The shadow what it feels like to be his. There is a quality to the accounts that the three Sinatra children have given across their adult lives in memoirs in interviews. in the careful and less careful words of people who have spent their lives being asked about the same subject that is consistent across the three of them and that captures something specific about the experience they shared.

 The quality is the quality of duality of inhabiting two roles simultaneously. The child the person the individual with an interior life and specific experiences and opinions that have nothing to do with the father and the sonatra the public figure the inheritor of the name. the person whose existence is primarily interesting to the world in relation to the man who precedes them. Nancy Jr.

 has talked about the difficulty of entering a room and being seen for the name before she is seen for herself. Frank Jr., who spent his life in the most direct possible competition with the comparison, singing the same songs in the same venues for audiences who came partly to see what the comparison revealed, has written about the weight of it in terms that suggest it never became lighter.

 Only more familiar, Tina has written about sitting with her father in his final years and trying to see him as a person, a sick old man, diminishing less than the legend, and finding that even in the private room the legend was present. He was enormous. This is the fact that exceeds every biographical account of Frank Sinatra. The enormity of his presence, the scale of his talent and his ambition and his self- mythology.

 The way he filled every room he entered and every era he passed through with something that was not merely a performance but a force. The force was real. The children felt it as real felt it from the beginning and they never stopped feeling it. What they did not always have, what the force sometimes prevented was the ordinary thing, the small private thing that children need from parents and that the world does not photograph and that the biographies do not document.

 The sustained undivided attention, the sense that they were the thing he was most interested in rather than one of many things he was interested in, the specific feeling of being known rather than recognized. He recognized them. He knew their names and their ages and the broad outlines of their circumstances he called.

 He appeared at the important occasions. He was generous with money in the way of people who have more money than they can easily spend and for whom the gesture of material generosity substitutes sometimes intentionally and sometimes not for the gesture of actual presence. He did not always know them. The difference between knowing and recognizing is the difference between understanding who a person is and being able to identify them in a room.

 And Frank Sinatra was very good at identifying people in rooms and complicated in his ability to understand who they were beyond what they were to him. This is not a character assassination. It is a description of a man who was by temperament and by the specific conditions of the life he built primarily oriented toward himself and his art and his appetites and for whom other people even the people he loved most.

 The people who had his name and his blood were often in the orbit of these primary things rather than at the center of the world alongside them. The children were in the orbit. They have spent their lives in the orbit. They have built their orbits around his and the building has been the work and the limitation and in various ways the gift.

What happened to the emperor? Frank Sinatra died on May 14th, 1998 at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Lowe’s Angels. He was 82 years old. His wife Barbara was with him. His daughter Nancy arrived in time. Frank Junior and Tina arrived after he died. It is worth saying plainly without the romantic elaboration that the legend generates.

 He died in a hospital bed of a heart attack after years of declining health, kidney disease, heart problems, the accumulated physical consequences of a life lived with the intensity that his had been lived with. He was 82 years old. He had been the most famous entertainer of the 20th century. He died as people die. His estate was valued at approximately $200 million.

 The distribution was not without dispute the fourth wife, the first family. The specific legal arrangements of a life that had been managed by layers of professional representation across decades. All of these produced the proceedings that the estate of a very wealthy and very famous person always produces. The proceedings were managed.

 The estate dispersed partially and the remainder continued to generate income through the licensing of the name and the voice and the image. The name and the voice and the image are still generating income. The estate managed by the three children in various combinations and through various disputes continues to represent one of the most commercially significant personal estates in entertainment history. The music is still played.

 The movies are still watched. The voice, the specific quality of tone and phrasing, and the particular way he turned a lyric, is still in the judgment of those who study such things, one of the most analyzed and most admired instruments in the history of recorded music. His son conducted the orchestra for the last decade of his performing life and died on a tour bus in 2016.

 His elder daughter made a number one record in 1966 and has maintained a public presence across 60 years. His younger daughter produced the authorized biographies and has fought for the authorized version of the legacy with the ferocity of someone who understands that the fight is the work. None of them fully escaped.

 This is the thing you understand reading the accounts across the decades that the gravity of the name was too great for escape to be the right frame. The right frame is something closer to what astronomers call orbit. the condition of being held by something larger than you are. Moving continuously in relation to it, neither falling into it nor flying away.

 Frank Junior was in orbit. Nancy was in orbit. Tina is still in orbit. The orbit is a life. It is not a small life. It is a life shaped by proximity to something extraordinary. And the proximity has cost things. The sense of a self that is fully independent. The experience of being known rather than recognized. the freedom to fail without the failure being measured against an impossible standard.

 And has given things, the platform, the legacy, the specific form of being loved by an enormous talent that is not the same as being loved by an ordinary person, but that is also not nothing. They were born to him. They could not be unborn to him. They have lived the lives that being born to him made available. And those lives have contained grief and achievement and the specific complexity of love for a person who was simultaneously the most present and the most absent father they could have had.

 He was everywhere in their lives. He was frequently not there. The night of December 11th, 1963, Frank Sinatra Jr. was released at the side of the San Diego freeway in Lowe’s Angels at approximately midnight on December 11th, 1963. He was 19 years old. He had been held for 72 hours. He had been blindfolded for most of those hours, his hands and feet bound, moved between locations, fed minimally, kept in conditions that he has described in subsequent interviews as frightening in the specific way that 72 hours of not knowing what is happening and what will

happen are frightening. He was unharmed physically. He was released at the side of the freeway and he walked or was helped to walk. The accounts differ to a point where he could be found and he was found and he was reunited with his family. His father had paid $240,000. The money had been delivered in a specific sequence of complicated handoffs as the kidnappers had instructed because they had been watching enough crime films to know that ransom handoffs required complexity.

 The complexity did not protect them. They were arrested within days. Frank Senior, in the accounts of people who were with him in those 72 hours, was a man transformed by fear in a way that those who knew him said was unusual. He was not a man who showed fear easily. The public persona, the chairman, the man who moved through the world with the ease of someone for whom the world has arranged itself, was not a man given to public displays of terror.

 For 72 hours, he was simply a father whose son was gone. And the terror was real and unmanaged and visible to the people who were with him. He paid the money. He got his son back. He stood at the freeway at midnight and held his son. And the accounts of that moment, the few that exist from people who were present, describe it as one of the few moments in the public record of Frank Sinatra’s life when the chairman was not present at all. Just the father, just the man.

And then it was over. The kidnappers were caught. The trial produced the accusations staged, a publicity stunt that would follow Frank Jr. for the rest of his career. The story moved from the front pages to the archive. Frank Senior returned to being Frank Senior. And Frank Jr. returned to being Frank Jr.

 to the circuit of clubs and concert halls where he sang the songs in the voice that was recognizably from the same place as his father’s and yet not his father’s carrying the name that was his and yet not fully his. managing the public understanding of himself as the son rather than as himself for the 53 years that remained to him after the freeway.

 The kidnapping was not the defining event of his life in the sense that it produced a change in trajectory. He had been on the trajectory before it happened. The trajectory was son of Frank Sinatra, singer, permanent resident of the comparison. The kidnapping produced not a change in the trajectory but a confirmation of it. that the most notable thing that would happen to him was not something he did or made or chose, but something that was done to him specifically because of whose son he was.

 He was released at the side of a freeway and he went on being his father’s son for 53 more years and he died on a tour bus while performing and he was buried near his father at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California in the family plot. He is buried near his father. He was always near his father. The legacy and the shadow Frank Sinatra’s voice is still everywhere.

 The songs My Way New York, New York, Fly Me to the Moon, The Lady is a The hundreds of recordings that constitute one of the most significant cataloges in the history of popular music are played daily globally in elevators and restaurants and airports and wedding receptions. And the specific occasions of human life that require music of a certain quality of feeling.

 They will be played after everyone who knew him is gone. His children are, as of this writing, surviving in the numbers available to them. Nancy Junior, in her 80s, still present in the public conversation about her father and her own career. Tina still managing the legacy, still in the specific work of keeping the official version coherent against the various unofficial versions that continue to be produced. Frank Junior is gone.

 He was buried near his father in 2016. The grave is visited. The name is carved in the stone. The three of them received from their father the things he was capable of giving and did not receive the things he was not capable of giving. The things he was capable of giving were enormous.

 The name, the resources, the specific education in what excellence in performance looks like when it is genuine. The access to a world that most people only observe from the outside. The things he was not capable of giving are the things that appear in the negative space of their accounts. the daily, the ordinariness, the sustained and undivided attention that parents give children when the parents are not simultaneously being the most famous entertainer in the world.

 He was, they have all said in various ways, the most present absence in their lives. The man who shaped them more than any other person they have known and who was not always there in the room when the shaping was happening. Who shaped them by what they heard about him and what they saw at a distance and what they absorbed from being near his orbit without always being in the room where he was.

 This is the specific inheritance of the children of legends, not the absence of love. The love was real in the way that Frank Sinatra’s love for the people he loved was real, which is to say completely and chaotically and on his own terms. But the specific deficit that comes from being loved by someone who is also simultaneously loved by the world and whose capacity for love is distributed across those two things in a ratio that does not always favor the family. They were three children.

 They had a famous father. They loved him and he loved them. And the love was real and insufficient in the ways that love is insufficient when the person it is coming from is constitutionally unable to make it the primary thing. He is everywhere. He was always everywhere. The song is still playing in the elevator and in the restaurant and at the wedding and the children are in their 80s or in the cemetery near his grave and the voice is on the radio.

 And the name is the name that everything in this story is measured against. And the measuring never stops. My way. The last song at the concert. The song he sang at the end. The song that is engraved on more headstones than any other in the English-speaking world. The song about having done it the way he wanted to do it with no regrets.

 His children have had regrets. They have had them in the specific and private way of people whose regrets are not for public consumption and who have learned from the father who taught them everything he could about the management of the public self, how to keep the private things private. They were his. They are still his.

 The name says so. And the name is still everywhere. And the orbit continues. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe so you never miss out on more fascinating stories.

 

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