The Second World War was Tony Bennett's "Front-Row Seat in Hell," according to him.

Tony Bennett, the honoree, appears at the Los Angeles Confidential Magazine 2012 Grammy Awards Celebration on Thursday, February 9, 2012. Bennett passed away on Friday, July 21, 2023. He was an outstanding and ageless stylist whose love of traditional American melodies and talent for writing new standards, including "I Left My Heart In San Francisco," adorned a career spanning decades and won him fans from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga. He was 96.