Frank Sinatra's My Way – the song that refuses to die | John Sutherland

My Way has again been named the nation's funeral favourite, despite being a ditty of ineffable banalityThere is an intrinsic paradox to My Way being the pop song most commonly chosen as a funeral anthem by British people. Death is a solemn business and one shouldn't mock what is, for most of us, so distressing that thinking straight is difficult. But if the deceased really went through life doing everything "their" way, why choose, for their farewell, the same musical tribute as all the others?A...

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