Connie Francis, who has died aged 87, had a string of hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Stupid Cupid", "Lipstick on Your Collar", "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and "Mama". From 1958 ...

In 1984, I was sitting across the table from Connie Francis, in an Italian restaurant owned by her ex-husband Joe Garzilli, and not sure where to begin. At the time, the Newark-born singing star was ...