Whos in the picture on MacPhistos dressing table in the Sydney video?
It’s Mario Lanza in the photo. Mario Lanza was an American opera-style singer in the 1950. He had no formal training but sang in a light operatic style in several MGM musicals. He was touted as “the American Caruso.” In fact, Mario was a truck driver from Philadelphia and could handle neither the stress of fame nor MGM’s insistence that he sing like Caruso but weigh only slightly more than his leading ladies. He died of a heartattack in his mid 30’s. Bono said in an interview with Spin magazine that Mario Lanza’s singing impressed him as a child.
