Critics and fans didn't expect a legend like Frank Sinatra to die without last words to remember him by: Sinatra's grave marker has the words "The Best Is Yet to Come", plus "Beloved Husband & Father" imprinted on it.

Sinatra was regarded by many as the greatest popular singer of the 20th Century. He was nicknamed "The Voice", "Ol Blue Eyes", and "Chairman of the Board". Born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of an Italian immigrant fireman, his mother's job was that of a midwife. Legend has it that one day he heard Bing Crosby singing and decided his career would be that of a singer.

He eventually launched a show business career that spanned more than 50 years. It comprised recordings, film and television (acting in several memorable pictures) as well as countless performances in nightclubs, concert halls, and sports arenas. Other artists said, "Sinatra often stood as a singular mirror of the American psyche."

Sinatra was also called the first modern pop superstar. He defined the role in the early 1940's when his first solo appearances provoked mass pandemonium. It was the kind that later greeted Elvis Presley and the Beatles.

It was said that his evolution from the idealistic crooner of the 1940's to the sophisticated swinger of the 50's and 60's seemed to personify the country's loss of innocence. Beginning in the 50's, the boy next door became a cosmopolitan man of the world with a song for every emotional season. He would die at 82.

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