Sir, - In regard to Kevin Myers's piece about Frank Sinatra's Dublin concerts, I found it interesting to re-read a front page feature on Sinatra's first concert here in May, 1989, appearing in The Irish Times under the name Kevin Myers. The feature is headed "Sinatra show hits delirious heights". There is criticism of Sinatra's voice in the feature, such as, ".. . it was clear that the voice is, to all extents and purposes, gone at times ..." However, after some further unflattering remarks, the penultimate paragraph reads:
"And when he (Sinatra not Myers) unleashed Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and, croaking though he was, he took the audience by storm: `Brillo' breathed a rapt guard. `Very good', whispered his companion."
Was not Mr Myers's observation, in his recent contribution on Sinatra, that "the saddest thing about Sinatra's death was that it did not occur 30 years ago", somewhat out of tune? -Yours, etc., Peter D. Maguire,
Booterstown, Co. Dublin.