Sinatra rejected my song, says McCartney
Paul McCartney has told how he wrote a song for singing great Frank Sinatra – and found it was rejected.
“Ole Blue Eyes” rated the former Beatle and his bandmate John Lennon as among the world’s greatest songwriters.
But McCartney said in an interview for Virgin Radio that the late crooner thought the track was done as a joke and gave it the elbow.
Sinatra recorded the Beatles song Something calling it the greatest love song ever written.
He wrongly believed it to be a Lennon and McCartney composition, but it was written by George Harrison.
McCartney told the Virgin Radio Superstars show to be aired tomorrow: “I once sent Frank Sinatra a song called Suicide.
“I thought it was quite a good one – but apparently he thought I was taking the mickey out of him and he rejected it.”
The interview is being broadcast at 6pm.
