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The singer who is apparently lucky to be alive since his heart might have developed a habit of going on and off at times has recently spoken of his great ambition to write a big hit. But Pete Doherty doesn’t want to write just any type of hit, he wants a Barry White-like hit. This is what Pete Doherty said on the matter: “Well Mik Whitnall, years ago, when we first started writing together, he took me aside and said, ‘Look, if we’re really going to bother with this we’re going to have to come up with a ‘My Way’ or something. Like a fuck off big Frank Sinatra or Barry White style, one-off, big hit.’” Yeah, because let’s face it, there’s no point for Pete Doherty to be in music if he can’t come up with a one shot hit… it’s like, his whole artistic career has no meaning.

Category : Barry White, Frank Sinatra, Pete Doherty

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Classic cars belonging to Hollywood icons Steve McQueen and Frank Sinatra are to go under the hammer.

A 1949 Chevrolet truck and a rare 1940 Indian 74ci Chief motorbike owned by McQueen, who died in 1980, are being sold through London auction house Bonhams & Butterfields.

The blue truck is expected to fetch between $20,000-$30,000, while the motorbike has estimates of $55,000 to $65,000.

According to McQueen’s third wife Barbara Minty, the Hollywood legend bought a pair of rectangular “blue dot” tail-lights at a swap meet, and installed them on the truck himself.

However, McQueen’s big love was motorbikes and he reportedly owned more than 150 during his lifetime. His “Hollywood” bike, the 1940 Chief, was originally sold as part of the actor’s estate when it was auctioned in 1984.

Also up for auction, with a price tag of $100,000-$120,000, is a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado, which was once owned by Sinatra.

In a funny twist, the Cadillac was subsequently bought by a California Highway Patrolman, Neal Gann – who, in 1958, had actually stopped Sinatra while he was driving the car, for failing to display a registration plate.

In 1999, Gann sold the car to Sid Craig, who is now auctioning it off.

The Bonhams & Butterfields auction in Los Angeles will be held on 14 November.

Category : Frank Sinatra

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Frank Sinatra’s youngest daughter, Tina, is talking to the media. During a recent interview, she just revealed that the director for the new Universal biopic on her dad. She was hinting at it at first saying that it would be helmed by “the most prominent Italian-American filmmaker” in Hollywood. Then she finally confirmed it to be Martin Scorsese. Tina says that the flick isn’t going to be a gangster picture and will instead show the singer in a better light. She said “”I don’t want him to be driving the getaway car. That would not be fair. But I trust him (Scorsese) implicitly.

Category : Frank Sinatra, Movies, Singers

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Frank Sinatra’s youngest daughter, Tina, is talking to the media. During a recent interview, she just revealed that the director for the new Universal biopic on her dad. She was hinting at it at first saying that it would be helmed by “the most prominent Italian-American filmmaker” in Hollywood. Then she finally confirmed it to be Martin Scorsese. Tina says that the flick isn’t going to be a gangster picture and will instead show the singer in a better light. She said “”I don’t want him to be driving the getaway car. That would not be fair. But I trust him (Scorsese) implicitly.

Category : Frank Sinatra, Music Legends, Singers

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Paul McCartney got an honorary Doctorate of Music from Yale University on Monday afternoon. Yale has given the same honor to some of the greatest music legends, including Elvis, Sinatra, Prince, Smokey Robinson and the other three Beatles. What?! I can’t believe Sir Paul was the last to be honored. Actually, none of the above mentioned ever went to Yale. But Ezra Sims, a composer and an expert in microtonal music, is an alumnus. Now you know why none of the music legends ever came from Yale. I doubt that they would be music legends if they did study there.

Category : Beatles, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney

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