Paul anka autobiography my way

About the Book

The smooth, charismatic singer and songster in his own words--the long-awaited autobiography that reveals a man that has been much enhanced dramatic than his crooning reveals.

Book Synopsis

A teen luminary of the s who all but invented the singer/songwriter/heartthrob combination dump still tops pop music nowadays, Paul Anka rocketed to illustriousness with a slew of hits-from "Diana" to "Put Your Intellect on my Shoulder"-that earned him a place touring with rectitude major stars of his harvest, including Chuck Berry, Jerry Thespian Lewis, and Buddy Holly.

Crystal-clear wrote Holly's last hit, discipline just missed joining the prime minister on his final, fatal level flight. Anka also stepped bask in front of the camera create the teen beach-party movie age, scoring the movies and romancing their starlets, including Annette Funicello.

When the British invasion prefabricated his fans swoon for systematic new style of music-and musician--Anka made sure he wasn't crushed.

A rapier-canny businessman and image-builder who took his career space his own hands-just as proceed had from the very procedure, swiping his mother's car horizontal fourteen to drive himself, juvenile, to his first gigs tidy Quebec-Anka toured the world pending he could return home funny story triumph. A charter member be frightened of the Rat Pack, he wrote the theme music for The Tonight Showas well as her highness friend Frank Sinatra's anthem "My Way".

By the s, well-organized multi-decade string of pop chart-toppers, including "Puppy Love" and "(You're) Having My Baby", cemented monarch status as an icon.
My Wayis bursting with rich, rollicking lore of the business and dignity people in Anka's life: Elizabeth Taylor, Dodi Fayed, Tom Linksman, Michael Jackson, Adnan Khashoggi, Round about Richard, Brooke Shields, Johnny Roselli, Sammy Davis, Jr., Brigitte Bardot, Barnum & Bailey Circus acrobats, and many more.

Anka decay forthcoming, funny and smart sort a whip about the inhabit he's been in for mock six decades. My Waymoves distance from New York to Vegas, foreigner the casino stage to backstages all over the world. It's the most entertaining autobiography hostilities the year.

Review Quotes

"A lively, entertaining autobiography by unified of the true legends carefulness the music busines." --Booklist

"Tenacious, jubilant with success, Anka splashes lot of juice and little restraint." --Publishers Weekly

About the Founder

PAUL ANKA had his defeat vocal group by the litter of thirteen and released dominion first single at sixteen.

Dominion first million-selling #1 hit, "Diana", made him a star. Why not? was born in Ottawa, Canada, and lives in Southern California.