The last five words not only reflect Sinatra’s general lifestyle, they also chime with much of today’s thinking. On Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio’s longest-running fantasy programme, in which guests are invited to choose eight records they would want to have with them if they were marooned, ‘My Way’ was eventually banned because so many people wanted to have it played. Writing in the Sunday Times shortly before Sinatra died, journalist Brian Appleyard said, ‘Nowadays we don’t have universal rules