“Well I really wasn’t such a Johnny Ace fan,
But I felt bad all the same”
But I felt bad all the same”
I don’t think any death in the classical world could have touched me as much as this one, without there being any specific reason for being touched, since I wasn’t really into this particular kind of popular hawling of opera into the marketplace. Strange.
Perhaps it’s just that he was a great singer with an obvious presence and something as old-fashioned as love for what he was doing.
Damn, he’s gone now. I miss him already.
Luciano Pavarotti, 1935–2007