3 STORIES
1964 · 60S
The song everyone treats as a space-age anthem is not about space at all. It is a cabaret waltz from 1954 about a man so overwhelmed by love…
1969 · 60S
The ultimate anthem of self-made triumph started life as a bleak French song about a couple sleepwalking through a dead marriage, was rewrit…
1980 · 80S
NEW YORK CITY, USA
The world's most famous anthem of big-city triumph wasn't written for Sinatra at all. It was a second-draft movie song for Liza Minnelli tha…