I did it my way, a modo mio

Frank Sinatra's hit My Way and Lucio Dalla's canzone Piazza Grande were released only three years apart. Everyone knows Sinatra's piece, but few outside Italy will have heard of Piazza Grande. Fewer still are perhaps aware that Sinatra's enduring hit was set to the music of a French song. The lyrics, however, are original and account for the song's undy…