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“It did so much for me and for him. It was such a big hit, he stayed 10 more years”: Paul Anka on how My Way indefinitely postponed Sinatra’s retirement

Paul Anka.

Paul Anka has performed My Way, the standard he wrote for Frank Sinatra, at a post-premiere event at the Toronto Film Festival for a new doc about the veteran Canadian singer-songwriter, entitled Paul Anka: His Way.

At the celebratory dinner, Anka recalled that. in 1968 Sinatra, had confided in him that he was thinking of retiring. “I’ve had enough,” he reputedly said, before telling Anka he intended to record one more album and adding: “You never wrote me that song.”

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