No idea if Ol' Blue Eyes realised but it's clearly a sequence of songs about being an aging queen.
Heart smashing stuff.
One of my favourite albums.
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Friday 30 January 2015
Rod McKuen: 1933-2015
In 1969 Frank Sinatra released A Man Alone, an album written for him by Rod McKuen.
No idea if Ol' Blue Eyes realised but it's clearly a sequence of songs about being an aging queen.
Heart smashing stuff.
One of my favourite albums.
x
No idea if Ol' Blue Eyes realised but it's clearly a sequence of songs about being an aging queen.
Heart smashing stuff.
One of my favourite albums.
x
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The year before that, Sinatra made The Detective, a fillum where he plays a cop investigating the murder of a gay dude, apparently at the hands of his boyfriend. It's incredibly dated now.
ReplyDeleteHooray, you're back.
ReplyDeleteBut you're not a man alone, are you?
The best song about an aging queen is surely 'Big Louise' by Scott Walker.
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