On his new tour, the comic and singer is reflecting on his 60-plus years in showbiz and encounters with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. Naomi Clarke reports.
Sir Tom Jones, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin – not a bad line-up to have rubbed shoulders with during your career, and these are only a few of the music titans and performers Jimmy Tarbuck has worked with across his 60-plus years in showbiz. Born in Liverpool in February 1940, James Joseph Tarbuck started mixing with greats at a young age as he was a schoolmate of John Lennon.
“I just love all that, but I wouldn’t compete with them,” he says of some of his contemporaries. “I mean Tom Jones, we’re the same age, but he’s singing like a 22-year-old. “The Lord’s been lucky to him and I mean that with respect because his voice is still there wonderfully and there are some singers who are still singing and maybe they shouldn’t be, their voices just wandered a bit.
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