THE TROUBLED THREE / TAMI NEILSON
Frank Sinatra hated rock’n’roll…“It is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has ever been my misfortune to hear,” he declared in 1957.
But it’s easy to see why Sinatra felt threatened by this new, raucous form of music that made the old guard of crooners suddenly look out of date. Six decades later, while Sinatra’s swing has been reduced to an identikit parade of Rat Pack tribute acts, the heart of rock’n’roll is kept beating wild and free by a new generation determined to stamp their mark on the music.