(tho' i have downloaded Louise) but Glen was always in my inner sanctum.
Cilla?

Eeek,

of getting someone extremely naff and trying to make them "cool" - Robbie Williams, Tom Jones, Rolf Harris, Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett etc etc.

That and the success of Johnny Cash has spawned the "stripped down raw and contemporary" sounds of Glen Campbell and Neil Diamond - where will it end?

but Tom Jones has a fair claim to be Britain's greatest soul singer - the male Dusty Springfield.

He was derailed by a poor choice of material and bad direction during the 1970s - not unlike Neil Diamond - then there was the 1980s Art Of Noise attempt to rebrand him as some sort of kitch novelty act.

Glen Campbell is simply one of the great interpreters of popular song - not forgetting his guitar playing.

This revisionist view of TT has gotten on my wick ever since they gave up the reality shows and failed solo careers to get back on the treadmill. I have no problem whatsoever with people liking and enjoying their music, each to their own, but this idea that they were a great band deserving of serious reappraisal is just nonsense. "Back For Good" is a perfectly fine single (despite the scurrilous and surely untrue story about who really wrote it), but that's it, aside from gifting us the horror of Robbie Williams.

For the Observer to even remotely try and rub Abba's ever-glittering fairy dust onto The That says more about the paper's editorial policy than about the music. Abba were always a superior proposition, it just took a few decades for us to realise that their music is here to stay in a classic Beatles way, as opposed to a Bay City Rollers "I Heart The 70s" way, and I will happily buy a drink for anyone here in 2025 if the year's highest-grossing film is based on the hits of Take That.

And to answer the question, I don't actually think anyone is 100% immune from rehabilitation, though context is everything... with the right song under the right circumstances, anyone could claw their way back, it's just whether they fly under the flag of "camp" or "cred."

Tom Jones has made some very ill-advised moves over the years but I'd like for him to have done a soul album in the vein of 'Dusty In Memphis'.

I think this is pretty damn terrific.

the list is long, but life is too short.

when The Observer Music Monthly (or whoever) put out the issue with the strap line, "Oasis: What the heck were we thinking?"

The Faces rerunion is going to have to be a blinder. Funny, Ronnie would have been seen a reliable guarantor thereof a wee while back. Odds slipping away, methinks.

...yep, another one desparately in need of a reboot. Funnily enough, there was a time in the 90s where he came out with some good albums again like 'A Spanner In The Works' and 'When We Were The New Boys' (save the Oasis and Primal Scream covers; I never liked the originals either though) which I've only recently discovered, but since that he's turned into a MOR crooner with those endless American Songbook albums.

...must be waiting for the phone to ring. Or for Rubin/Ronson/Cocker to ring him.

Tom Jones is a fantastic singer with a willing attitude and tremendous staying power. A national institution and no mistake.

Also, the Glen Campbell cover of the Foo Fighters is top drawer.

I don't have any massive beef against Take That - there isn't time - but my annual clothes-buying trip to M&S ended in disappointment on Saturday due to every item bearing a big label stating "AS WORN BY JASON ORANGE" (or one of his compadres).
The many elderly gentlemen browsing the clothes were no more enthusiastic about the boy band look than I was.

If a parking meter could sing, this is what it would sound like.

With most acts you can find something redeemable (no matter how small); not with her though...