Volume 21, Number 19 · November 28, 1974
American Graffito
By Robert Mazzocco
Sinatra: The Main Event
at Madison Square Garden, October 12 and 13
Sinatra, who arrived on the scene at the end of one depression, seems to have triumphantly returned at the start of another. Caveat emptor, perhaps the sign at the Garden should have read. But a few Sundays ago on the night of 'the main event' there was no apprehension that I could detect—and no WIN buttons either. Most of the fans seemed to me jubilant, middle-aged, affluent; many had probably risen with the star during the boom years of the war when they unexpectedly began making money 'hand over fist'; then later, with the 'Hit Parade' floating over the dashboard, moved onward to the ranch houses and mortgages of the suburbs. For them Sinatra was more than just a pop potentate, he was Old Faithful whose rill was purest and deepest because its treasured source was in the past.
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