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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER

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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
120-Frank Sinatra-My Way.
1969-Number 5 single.
Best Bit-At 3.13.My Way is the most requested song by people to be played at their funerals,presumably its the Frank Sinatra version and not the one by Sid Vicious.
Paul Anka heard the original French version called ‘Comme d’habitude(As Usual) performed by Claude Francois while on holiday in the South of France.He flew to Paris to negotiate the rights to the song,agreeing to share royalty’s with the songs writers Claude Francois and Jacques Revaux.
The original lyrics tell the tale of a couple who are falling out of love and their marriage coming to an end.
Anka had Frank Sinatra in mind when he re-wrote the words,he had been having dinner with Sinatra in Florida and,’a couple of mob guys,’during which Sinatra said,’I’m quitting the business.I’m sick of it,I’m getting the hell out.’Anka’s lyrics tell of a man looking back fondly on a life he lived on his own terms,Sinatra recorded it and it has become one of his signature songs(see also best songs 877-567 and 469.)
The song spent 75 consecutive weeks in the UK top 40 which is a record that still stands to this very day.Other hit versions of the song are from Welsh singer Dorothy Squires who reached Number 25 in 1970.A live version by Elvis Presley was posthumously released in 1977 peaking at Number 9,but the most famous cover is by Sid Vicious who changed many of the lyrics.Paul Anka has said that he was ‘Somewhat destabilised by the Sex Pistols version.It was kind of curious,but I felt he(Sid Vicious) was sincere about it.’
‘For what is a man,what has he got,if not himself then he has naught.’
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