I can’t go round in a raincoat and fedora looking over my life saying I did it my way — well, for 10 minutes in some American bar over a gin and tonic you might be able to get away with it. But Sid Vicious’s rendition takes in everybody; everybody is messed up like that, everybody is the mad hero of his own drama. It explodes the whole culture this self-presentation can take place in, so it completes the song for me. The 1986 film Sid and Nancy features a scene where Gary Oldman, portraying Vicious, performs his version of "My Way" while filming the songs music video.Viciouss version of this song appears in Martin Scorseses 1990 film GoodFellas, where it plays over the end credits. Margaret Mackie and Jamie Lee Morley
In December 2019 footage of Margaret Mackie, a resident of Northcare Suites Care Home in Edinburgh who suffers from dementia, performing "My Way" with staff member Jamie Lee Morley, went viral after being posted online by Mackies daughter.Morley later arranged to have the song professionally recorded and it was released in January 2020 as a charity single to raise funds for The Alzheimers Society and Dementia UK. The single peaked at number seven in the iTunes top 40 UK Pop Songs live chart and number five in the Amazon best seller chart. Yuzo Kayama
In Japan, Yuzo Kayama who is usually called the Japanese Frank Sinatra, performed My Way in 2008 in English.
On April 23 and 30, 2015, as part of 2 vocal overdubbed sessions, Yuzo Kayama performed My Way with the earlier record of Frank Sinatra as a duet. Adaptations
Besides translations more or less faithful to the original, some artists have set unrelated lyrics to the same tune. Jozsef Gregor the renowned Hungarian bass-baritone/basso buffo recorded the song with Andras Ruszanovs Hungarian love themed lyrics version in 1996. Two years later, he sang this version in one of the most popular TV show in Budapest, since then this version has been permanently on the playlists of numerous radio stations in Hungary. Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez did a Spanish language version, named "A Mi Manera". Public use
The song is popularly associated with nostalgia to an individuals lifetime of events. Surveys beginning in 2005 have often reported that "My Way" has been the song most frequently played at funeral services in the UK. "My Way" is also a popular karaoke song around the world. However, it has been reported to cause numerous incidents of violence and homicide among karaoke singers in the Philippines, referred to in the media as the My Way killings, which has led to the song being banned in many Filipino bars.The songs association with Sinatra led to Mikhail Gorbachevs policy of allowing other states in the Warsaw Pact to make their own policy decisions being nicknamed the Sinatra Doctrine, referencing My Ways lyrics about doing things your own way.