'I wish I'd been a bad girl'

Published: June 17, 2008, 12:18 pm

Sooner or later, Nancy Sinatra was bound to show up on The Sopranos. Her younger brother, Frank Jr, appeared in a memorable card game episode in the show's second season. Paulie Walnuts calls him "chairboy of the board". In the show's final season, Nancy showed up playing herself, singing an apposite composition called Big Bossman (Take My Hand). Nancy is Italian-American royalty, the daughter of the man who bestrode mid-century US popular culture - movies, records, nightclubs, even politics - like the proverbial Colossus. But, and this is a rare thing among the children of the superfamous, Nancy managed to establish for herself an entirely separate musical and cultural identity in the mid-1960s: as a pre- or proto-feminist sex kitten with claws. And, of course, those boots. Timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of his death, there's an extensive campaign unfolding, conducted under the auspices of Warner Bros, to transform Frank Sinatra into a posthumous brand in

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