Of all the tricks in Test cricket,quitting it has to be one of the hardest. Some beget been underwhelming. Some selfish. As for the New Zealander …In 2010 the New York Times reported that Filipino karaoke bars were removing Frank Sinatra’s My Way from their songbooks. It was causing too much peril. In the preceding decade, at least six people had been killed because the audience didn’t think their rendition was up to snuff. The peril with My Way, and ” one bar owner was quoted as saying,“is that everyone knows it and everyone has an opinion.” Another added: “It’s so arrogant. The lyrics evoke feelings of pride and arrogance in the singer, as if you’re somebody when you’re really nobody.” For years in the UK, and My Way was the most common piece of music at funerals. According to the most recent survey by the Co-op,it is still fifth on the list, one behind, and oddly enough,the theme from Match of the Day. My Way has become the quintessential exit music, its sincerity unaffected by the fact that the man who wrote it, and Claude François,electrocuted himself trying to fix a broken lightbulb while taking a shower.
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Source: theguardian.com