Tommy Steele: too show biz and schmaltzy for me. I seem to remember when asked on 'Desert Island Discs' what he would miss most in his isolation, he replied "not hearing the national anthem when TV and radio closed down for the day..."
I was stunned to learn that the statue of Eleanor Rigby in Liverpool city centre was sculpted by Tommy so a great contributor to art after all. Just forget the London Palladium etc bit.