Danny Bennett, son of the late singer Tony Bennett, has revealed the last thing his father said to him. “His last words to me [were] ‘Thank you.'”
In a joint interview, the singer’s widow, Susan Benedetto, also revealed the last song Bennett sang before his death: his first hit, “Because of You.” Bennettat age 96 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease since 2016, though the cause of death remains unknown.
Danny, who was the eldest son of Tony’s first wife, Patricia Beech, and also served as his father’s manager, described his dad as a “man of the people” who maintained his drive late into life. In the Nineties, Danny recalled his father telling him he wanted to reach a younger crowd. “He came into my office one time, and he said, ‘I was watching MTV … I think I can do that,'” Danny said. “And then walked out. And I was like, all right.
“He turned to me, and he said, ‘Can I ask you a question?'” Danny recalled. “And he goes, ‘You think Frank [Sinatra] would do this?’ And I said, ‘No.'” (Sinatra died in 1998. Both he and Bennett experienced a resurgence among younger fans in the early Nineties when Sinatra released hisalbums, pairing him with Bono and Chrissie Hynde, among others, and Bennett released the gold-certified
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