{"id":11257,"date":"2010-10-05T18:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/sinatra-on-rock-and-roll\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T18:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:52:22","slug":"sinatra-on-rock-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/sinatra-on-rock-and-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinatra on Rock and Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Frank Sinatra died&#0160;on 14 May 1998. <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/music\/2008\/05\/14\/2008-05-14_10_years_later_frank_sinatra_remembered_.html?print=1&amp;page=all\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> we read:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160;. . . as Sinatra began to recover from Gardner, he became more outspoken. In 1957, he denounced rock &#39;n&#39; roll as &quot;the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear. &#8230; It manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the Earth.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">That is about as fair as my judgment, back in the &#39;60s, of the music of Sinatra and his fellow Rat Pack crooners: &quot;lounge lizard music.&quot; Enamored as I was of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Sinatra&#39;s music struck me as so much booze-drenched escapist rubbish, devoid of reality content. Empty glamor and glitz, at home in the plastic fantastic fool&#39;s paradise called Las Vegas. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">But escapism is what Sinatra and his generational cohort needed, as mine needed a music of engagement. Different generations with different needs and sensibilities. In the meantime, I&#39;ve come to appreciate his artistry. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ll0wkmVBg_c\">Angel Eyes<\/a>.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bef_s1Bhn7o\">Only the Lonely<\/a>.&#0160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Sinatra died&#0160;on 14 May 1998. Here we read: &#0160;. . . as Sinatra began to recover from Gardner, he became more outspoken. In 1957, he denounced rock &#39;n&#39; roll as &quot;the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear. &#8230; It manages to be the martial music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/sinatra-on-rock-and-roll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sinatra on Rock and Roll&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}