Tony Bennett

Timeless pop-music icon

- ANDREW R. CHOW

IN THE LATE 1960S, THE MUSIC MOGUL Clive Davis told the crooner Tony Bennett to change his style and repertoire. Rock music had taken over the world, and jazz standards didn't cut it anymore, Davis argued.

But Bennett stuck to his guns. And over the next six decades, his fierce devotion to a bygone musical era would both revitalize the American songbook and make Bennett, who died on July 21 at 96, one of the world's most enduring and beloved music stars.