To this day I still can’t believe that they played Frank fkn Sinatra off the stage(in order to get to a commercial on time) as he was accepting a lifetime achievement award. It feels like an SNL skit. There are so many people in that audience and the rest of the music industry back and thank Frank Sinatra for what he did to pave the way for them. And they play him off the fkn stage?? Thank God for Billy Joel who made up for it after they came back from commercial by stopping in the middle of the song he was performing on stage just to piss them off. He looked at his watch and said.. “valuable advertising time going by… Dollars dollars dollars…“ One of the greatest moments in awards show history

@Boss-of9lf

2 жыл бұрын

Just read a book by Sinatra's manager. He called for the ad break as he was concerned that Sinatra might start embarrassing himself as he had a few too many drinks before going on stage to collect the award, which was unlike Frank. If Frank had ended up embarrassing himself on live TV, the professional in him would not have forgiven himself. It was a judgement call and Sinatra's manager was right to do so. Bono was also drinking with Sinatra but thankfully he had his speech written out instead of trying to remember what to say.

He was emotional not only from the great welcome he received but rather the speech that described him so perfectly. We love you Frank.

Well done Bono you presented the award to Frank 4 years before he died.

I moved to Las Vegas in 1987 and saw Frank perform live many times. Even though he was older and couldn’t quite hit some notes he always dazzled with his stage person and charisma. I consider myself quite blessed to have seen him perform so many times. Always the best.

RIP Frank Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998), aged 82 You will always be remembered as a legend.

Beautiful Irish poetry

Even at an old age, he still looks great, and his voice, dang

@mattshepherd7268

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I love Bono

One of the greatest introductions ever for one of the greatest artists ever!

Bono looks incredible and all the crowd is so elegant, those days are far behind.

I got choked up when he almost busted out into tears. He's no # 1 for me 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🙏🇺🇸

Without Sinatra, many of them would not be there.....he put ‘ saloon singers on the map

@WildxFlower

4 жыл бұрын

True. Not the case of U2, though. They where already there. It was Sinatra who approached Bono. Bono probably thought it was a blessing. He always does.

@helpoj

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaa not only that, theyre parents probably made love to his music 😂😂

An _amazing_ moment to see Frank so moved. I think Frank seemed fine, not in the throes of dimentia. Maybe a little buzzed after a few with Bono. Concerned that he might say something untoward, it was presumably Eliot Weisman, Frank's manager, who told the people running the show to go ahead to commercial. I don't judge him harshly at all, he was protecting his friend and client. Frank was getting a little slow by then, and combined with the drinks he and Bono had beforehand, well... you never know. So... Anyway, I got to see Sinatra in concert three times. I'm very lucky to have been around when he was still active. I don't recall who told it -- but this is _the_ single best story about Frank Sinatra that I ever heard. Perhaps it's even more about us loyal fans, and may explain why his manager made that request at the Grammies: _In his later years, memory failing him a bit, Frank was performing live, and at one point was going to begin a song, and... forgot the lyric. He just drew in a breath, and drew a blank. As the old saying goes, you could have heard a pin drop._ _The orchestra went silent, the audience went silent, (hell, the whole universe froze!) This was beyond awkward. While the silence stretched, Frank paced back and forth across the stage, whispering in to the microphone over and over,_ "I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry... " _ _Then someone in the audience stood up and yelled,_ "That's ok, Frank, we love you anyway!" _And immediately the entire audience stood and gave him a long, thunderous standing ovation._ _That moving moment revitalized him, and the orchestra launched into_ "The Best Is Yet To Come," _and Frank just nailed it perfect._ For me, it's an amazing story. I think it's a great story about courage, our human imperfections, loyalty, and maybe humanity's single greatest attribute, the very thing that makes us human -- empathy.

Sinatra was the greatest interpretive artist of American popular music ever produced in our country. His body of recordings and concert appearances from the late thirties to the mid 90s is unprecedented in the entertainment industry.

First time seeing this since it aired in 1994. Frank was fading fast and knew it. He did a Duet with Bono of “I’ve got you under my skin” and an accompanying music video around this time. Thank you for posting!

#1 greatest introductory speech I've ever seen

I miss 90s buzzed up Bono

@jakez5227

8 ай бұрын

I call this version of Bono the Arrogant Bono, post fly of course. But still pretty pompous 😂

@rebecalinares5393

5 ай бұрын

@@jakez5227 Bono was at this point at the peak of his powers, the coolest, biggest rock star in the world; coming up from the greatest rock tour of all time (Zoo TV Tour) and one of the greatest albums ever (Achtung Baby), a Five Star classic, possibly the best record of the 1990s and still highly influential.

@jakez5227

5 ай бұрын

@@rebecalinares5393 my first album I ever purchased. Incredibly perfect in my opinion. I profoundly recall Bono accepting an award during this period when he said “U2 was made to fuckup the mainstream” live on television. My 11 year old self was so enamored with that man at that very point! I had never heard anyone cuss on live television and thought it was amazing 🤩😂

@rebecalinares5393

5 ай бұрын

@@jakez5227 yeah Bono was using bad language during this period, insulting president of France during the MTV awards also after winning best international act 1995 He was the coolest rock star on the planet. Here winning grammy fo best alternative album 1993, with the ´fuck up the mainstream´ legendary phrase kzread.info/dash/bejne/X3iCush_qZuvlNI.html

@jakez5227

5 ай бұрын

@@rebecalinares5393 omg you found it! I was in my early teens with Zoopora, I listened to it often. I also vividly remember Numb, and Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me being on MTV at that time. Thank you for bringing back the memories ❤️

The 90s were such a better time

Sinatra is kind and emotional man

It's like he was saying goodbye

@katslat8410

3 жыл бұрын

:( I know

@mikeyates7931

27 күн бұрын

He was

Sinatra - better than anything there's ever been or will be in the world of popular music. Fact.

I like alot of different kinds of music, heavy metal, classical , big band, metalica, ac/dc, oldies, soul, hip hop and the list goes on. But there's always time for Frank Sinatra's music 👍

@fredferrante5988

2 жыл бұрын

Doesnt matter what type of music you like ,Everyone likes a Frank Sinatra song

Great intro Bono!

So grateful that I was able to see him perform live. Don Rickles opened the show, needless to say it was hilarious. What an amazing life Mr. Sinatra had. One of the greatest. We don't have men like this anymore.

he was so glamorous, he had very shiny hair.

My wife and I saw him twice in Las Vegas in the late eighties at the Riviera and early nineties at the Desert Inn. The Greatest Of All Time and the TRUE GOAT?

I remember this introduction growing up the hair on the back of my neck stood up, even hearing it again, when they cut to a commercial i was like 😱wtf Frank was the REAL DEAL

Bono did not mention that Frank was also a great humanitarian, and a fighter against racism.

@veritasetlibertas7889

2 жыл бұрын

@Antonio Macri Contrast a whole life.

@xavierbrown8053

2 жыл бұрын

@Antonio Macri Frank organized it.

So sad that frank never loved rock n roll, bur well... he was raised i a different world.. yo know franK? every single rock n roll head loves your music. ahahah we can deal with that.

@leonardoribeiro9579

3 жыл бұрын

well, he sang with elvis and with bono

Sinatra is the greatest.. What a life..Yes he was struggling at this point but he looked wonderful.

@dabneyoffermein595

3 жыл бұрын

why do you say he was struggling?

@MiiZzJ0kEr

2 жыл бұрын

@@dabneyoffermein595 because he was battling with memory loss and his health was declining

@THEBIGBEEFIS

4 ай бұрын

@@dabneyoffermein595he collapsed on stage that same year

Sinatra forever and ever 💗💗💗💗💗

They should have arranged for him to perform. Sounds like he would have loved to.

@WildxFlower

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he would have. They probably didn't see it that way, which is sad.

@AndrewVOdom

3 ай бұрын

@@WildxFlowerThey cut him off when someone decided he was rambling. It was a very rude cut that everyone noticed. This edit doesn’t show how abrupt it was.

I wanted to just have a conversation with Frank but I was born too late. No money, no fame talk, just a conversation about little things.

@eepyeepers

8 ай бұрын

me too, how cool that would be!

@philipreid2542

6 ай бұрын

Yes, because if you'd been born earlier you'd have definitely had a conversation with Sinatra...right

@NostalgiaMan

6 ай бұрын

Dude you know what I mean. Stop being so literal @@philipreid2542

Nearly 30 years ago!

I’ll NEVER forget seeing this, all I could say at the end was ….WOW!

Bono's 'More connected than the Twin Towers' reference seemed like such a solid one: A more innocent time.

Great intro...well deserved.

miss this man class act no one like him now and no one since just brillant

Finally the full video for the most part! Thank you!

Mr. Sinatra......Strictly the Best! I love the Rat Pack

LA VOZ.....FOREVER

Miss the old days..when all great singers sitting in the same room salute the greatest singer...

King of New Jersey Where he was born.

Chairman of the board!

Frank thanks for wishing my mother a happy birthday at the original Golden nugget in Atlantic city...pure class

Wonderful tribute & earnest.

somewhere johnny depp is watching and loving bonos style hahahaha

Frank left his toupee to his best friend, Don Rickles. Don was buried wearing it.

Tony Bennet in the audience… ooouuuuhhhh

It's possible that when Frank said, "I'm angry; I'm (comedy NY accent) hoit," the geniuses at the console thought Frank had lost his mind and was going to have a tantrum, and made a quick decision to cut him off. They were unfamiliar with Frank; that was his humor. He said the exact same thing at the 1954 Academy Awards show, when he took home the Best Supporting Actor statue. The next day's headlines said Frank was confused, rambled, felt hurt, and so needed to be cut off. This is the type of thing that happens when the people in charge don't know much about whom they're dealing with.

@ivancarriel7210

3 жыл бұрын

Who ever cut him off should of been beaten and shot. How dare they cut off a legend. I am still angry

@akrenwinkle

3 жыл бұрын

@@ivancarriel7210 Somebody thought s/he was protecting Frank from making a fool of himself. Probably not familiar with Frank's ring-a-ding-ding humor and timing. Unfortunate, I would have liked to hear the whole thing.

@philiphalpenny3783

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't something similar happen with the great James Cagney ( Frank's idol) at the Night Of 100 Stars in 1982?

@mattcure

Жыл бұрын

However in 1954 he did not say he was angry. He said I still love you guys.

@AGTfan-se5ql

Ай бұрын

Kudos to Billy Joel, though, for sticking it to CBS later in the evening. “Valuable advertising time going by…”

Outstanding

I like to think of Frank playing with his trains in his basement, wearing his engineer’s hat.❤️

Master story teller

Bono is a genius

@giannagarcia4937

3 жыл бұрын

Y salió con todo y cigarrett

@jakez5227

8 ай бұрын

This was the time period between zooropa and pop, Bono no pun intended was trying to be very edgy. He would often keep a five o’clock shadow and be smoking those cigarillos.

Love Of My Life U2💯🎁❤️💋

The King of New York

Frank Sinatra will always be a great legend.....

I would have left. Cutting off Sinatra? That’s crossing a line.

@sammyd9564

3 жыл бұрын

Caitlin, they saved him from embarrassing himself. He starts to drift...His handlers most likely gave the cue to stop it.

“More connected than Twin Towers” Welp, maybe, if he wouldn’t have said It in 1994

Using this video as a sample for a Young Sinatra beat

Nice speech bonoman

Legend; the one and only Chairman of the Board

Dommage que e texte ne soit pas traduit en Français . Admiration totale. ❤ le meilleur.

2018 Irish Independent interview He had reason recently to watch himself giving Frank Sinatra a Grammy legend award in 1994. His summing up of it is: "I walk on, sheets of paper, smoking a cigar at the Grammys…and it's just 'an obnoxious f*ck'."

@rashomonsan

2 жыл бұрын

I expect whenever Bono isn't performing, he's watching himself perform.

Frank getting emotional..my poor heart.

Because I'm not a native speaker I hardly understand what this guy is speaking, but as it concerns to Frank Sinatra, I am in

@barbaraalauro

2 жыл бұрын

Lo mejor de lo mejor!!😍

Bono has the best rap about Elvis Presley, about three minutes long.

👏👏👏👏👏

Da Man!

The call to cut to commercial was made by Sinatra's own management in the control room. Like most of America & the audience that day, I think it was a big mistake to cut off a living legend's goodbye to his fans & the world.

Ol Blue eyes...great speech

Not me crying when he started to tear up

Could someone write this poem here, in it's entirety? Please...

After this Bono made a legendary speech in the other room and said something about hormones and ended it with “free your ass and your mind will follow” 😂🤣

the goat

Goodness that hair is hell, hopefully I'll something close to that.

It's the first time I noticed ne had a bigger ear than the other!

Thats Why The Gentleman's A Champ

Isn't this the one where they forced him to stop talking so they could roll the commercials

@WildxFlower

4 жыл бұрын

thelifeandtimesofhollywood.blog/2017/02/13/the-night-frank-sinatra-was-disrespected-at-the-grammy-awards/ Watching the Grammy Awards on Sunday night reminded me when Frank Sinatra made his last appearance at the Grammy Awards nearly 23 years ago at the 36th Annual on March 1, 1994. He was 79 years old. He was to win the Grammy Legend Award presented to him by Bono, who had done a duet with him on a recent album. Instead of showing the respect due to one of the greatest voices of the twentieth century, Sinatra was unceremoniously cut off as he was speaking. As we are in the midst of the annual awards season, it always astounds me in the way that our great performers from the past generation are generally forgotten while the emphasis is placed on the new talent. I personally enjoy watching the appearance of the classic artists who are typically ignored. Cutting off Frank became a controversy. From the Grammy Website -here is their official response to the brouhaha: “Bono would strike a different tone in presenting Frank Sinatra with his Grammy Legend Award. Bono began his brilliant tone poem salute like this: “Frank never did like rock and roll. He’s not crazy about guys wearing earrings either, but he doesn’t hold it against me and, anyway, the feeling is not mutual. Rock and roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank Sinatra’s got what we want: swagger and attitude. He’s big on attitude, serious attitude, bad attitude. Frank’s Chairman of the Bad. Rock and roll plays at being tough, but this guy, well, he’s the Boss. The Boss of Bosses. The Man. The Big Bang of Pop. I’m not gonna mess with him, are you?” Sinatra’s own comments would prove significantly more controversial. Sinatra - now approaching the age of 80 - was clearly moved by the huge standing ovation that he received - a reaction that seemed in the moment like a massive expression of respect and multigenerational reckoning. “Thank you very much,” he said when he finally spoke. “That’s the best welcome I ever had.” Sinatra’s comments from then on were a fascinating mix of vintage Rat Pack jokes (“This is more applause than Dean heard in his whole career”), personal thanks to his wife Barbara and even hurt feelings that he was not being asked to sing on this night. Yet for the record, even the aging Chairman’s rambling revealed singular phrasing. Controversy ensued when Sinatra was cut off and the broadcast was taken to a commercial break before wrapping things up. Later The Academy let it be known that the decision had come from Sinatra’s camp, but the impression of disrespect had already been made. Even the Grammy host felt the need to distance himself on air from the decision, albeit with a memorable wink in the end. “Before I go on, I think you’d join me going on record that Mr. Sinatra should have finished his speech,” Garry Shandling told the audience. “I think that was a slight mistake. This is live television and I’m sure Mr. Sinatra will get even by cutting this show off in another hour.”

@WildxFlower

4 жыл бұрын

sinatrafamily.com/forum/showthread.php/13415-Bono-s-intro Bono's Speech at the 1994 Grammys (Sinatra called it "probably the best introduction I've ever had.")

Who is the lady at 4.32

What is the song called when Sinatra was making his entrance?

@andreab.4564

3 жыл бұрын

Young at heart

The GOAT

Michael O'Keefe sighting at 1:08 on Bonnie Raitt's left.

Is this when they cut to a break as he spoke to long

I love you Frank 🙏🏻💋🍸 ♥️

Bono and FS...

I watched this and cried because you could see how sick he was getting and fragile . Not a fan of Barbra and in my heart I’ll always feel she played a part in draining him in his final years . Nancy Barbato Sinatra was a fine lady and his real soulmate and I wish they would of stayed together . Long live Francis Albert Sinatra ♥️

God, Bono was gorgeous in this time period. Sex on legs and he got away with saying "fuck" and not being edited on national tv.

@adamatincul2618

2 жыл бұрын

So agree with you! He's a dynamite, hot and sexy...the absolute perfection!

CLASSLESS ACT to Cut off FRANK no matter how much he RAMBLED...

😢

Omg tony bennett

They broke the mould ……..

Frank’s wig outshined them all, sorry Bono, Frank included….

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Long Live U2... 😎🤠🤙

That was Mama Cas, from the Mamas and the Papas sf hitting in front of Nancy Sinatra!

@veritasetlibertas7889

4 жыл бұрын

No she is not. She died before that. But she looks like her, a very young version of her.

They should have just let frank finish his speech in the first place.

RIP Frank and Tony 😢

Come on, Bono. Pass that shit!

He wasn't snubbed. His manager told them to cut him off, because he was a bit senile and had been drinking shots before he went out there.