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FRANKIE AND BILLIE

Article Category: Entertainment

Author Name: Alice Frances Wickham

Frank Sinatra went to Billie Holiday on her deathbed, in a poor Harlem Hospital.

Billie was 44 years old, her internal organs were shot and she was badly in need of heroin. The New York police had looted her room and helped themselves to heroin from her pocketbook.

The doctor turned a blind eye, the mindset was, 'why treat this lady, if she's still flying?'.

Three cops were stationed at her door and a beautician was inside doing her hair and nails. Billie was smoking cigarette after cigarette, she told Sinatra to watch the therapist, who she said would gladly remove the gold from her teeth while she was still chewing her gum

Billie was emaciated, her small frame was wrecked by narcotics, alcohol had ruined her intestines. She was thrilled when her boy turned up, and when he told her how much he loved the album, 'Lady In Satin' and tried to get her interested in going back to work.

Sinatra told Billie that he owed his career to her, "You taught me everything when I was beginning with Harry James." Billie wasn't having it. She laughed, she said, 'cut the crap baby, get me some dope'. She was flat-out at this point, from withdrawal.

Later on that day, her liver gave up and she passed away. Sinatra was devastated, he spent a long time holed up indoors, listening her tracks over again, crying himself to sleep.

See, Frank Sinatra was this complicated man/guy, merciless, delicate, streetwise, and stacked with heart. Billie was his golden calf, she versed him in the art of phrasing, of tone, of pitch, of tempo, simply put, she taught him how to sing.

Where Frank was the cat with nine lives, Billie was destined for a short run at the Opera. She was born to croon those strange, off beat notes, to pour her genius out of that 'brilliant, honey-coloured throat', and into the rarefied, jazz atmosphere of Harlem. She was jazz's secret weapon, the Zen priestess of soul, impeccable timing, phrasing, and precision.

A human instrument created in another world, another time, and therein lies the conundrum, conceived with this internal light, grasping for a break in life, Billie's continued agony created that incredible blues soul, that 'mixed up thing' the apparatus of invention, the Rosetta stone, the wonder that became Lady Day.

Sinatra was a skinny, cocky singer when he first became her lover. He was in awe of his muse 'till the day she died. Their souls matched, they imparted the same harsh virtuoso, the same gritty musical genius. No way would Billie claim credit for 'educating' Sinatra, she cast off the idea, saying all she ever did was help him to "bend a note".

Still, Sinatra attributed the root of his art to Lady Day. He knew it, they both did, but Billie shucked it off, with a smile.

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