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With those familiar lyrics, Frank Sinatra began crooning an encore of My Way to a sold-out crowd in Richmond, Virginia, a week ago. Midway through his signature tune, dripping with sweat, the 78-year-old singer called for a chair, then suddenly collapsed. The audience gasped as he landed facedown with a thud. "I thought he had died," Sinatra's bass player told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "I always figured he'd go onstage." Revived a few moments later, Sinatra was rushed off in a wheelchair and spent a few hours in a local hospital before flying...
Though his spokeswoman insisted he had merely succumbed to heat, the accident marked the latest in a series of events that have left Sinatra's fans puzzled and saddened. Just days before the Virginia incident, Ol' Blue Eyes went misty as he was honored with a special "Legend" award during the annual Grammy Awards ceremony. In a move that had television audiences scratching their heads, CBS abruptly cut away from his rambling, emotional remarks, apparently at the behest of his own handlers...
During recent concert appearances, Sinatra has appeared bothered and bewildered, occasionally missing song cues, forgetting lyrics, rambling insensibly and needling his son and conductor, Frank Sinatra Jr. Reviewers have treated his performances with varying degrees of reverence and revulsion; some calling for the Chairman of the Board's retirement, others allowing that such lapses in memory and manners are to be expected if not excused...
...Sinatra himself makes no excuses. "I'm feeling fine," he told TIME last week in a rare interview, conducted via fax. (It is the way he handles all requests for comments from the press.) As for Grammy night, Sinatra admits to being emotional. "When I walked out onstage at Radio City Music Hall, I wanted to shake hands with everyone there...
...Sinatra's troubles come just as he is enjoying yet another resurgence, winning back old fans as well as acquiring new admirers from the yuppie and slacker generations with his Duets album. The disk electronically melds Sinatra's prerecorded tracks with those by younger pop icons like U2's Bono. It is his most successful album since 1966's Strangers in the Night...