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July 16, 2021

From Darkness to Light. Nancy Sinatra, on dealing with Tommy Sands' drug abuse, the death of her husband Hugh Lambert and the loss of her dad, Frank Sinatra.

18 minutes

From 2000-2007 I did a series of interviews with people who had gone through dark periods in their lives, survived and in some cases had epiphanies. I hoped these interviews would help illuminate the lives of readers. In 2020, when COVID-19 began to shadow the world, I put the best of these interviews in an eBook called From Darkness to Light. This interview, which isn't in the book, has Nancy Sinatra, whose music I have loved since I was a child, refect on hits like 'These Boots Are Made For Walking,' 'Sugar Town' - "did your dad know it was a drugs song!" - and darker times involving Tommy Sands abuse of prescription drugs, the loss of her second husband Hugh, to cancer, and the death of her dad

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