Sir Tom Jones gets New Year Honour
Published December 31st, 2005
Tom Jones has been made a knight in the New Year’s Honours list, leading a host of names from the entertainment world.
The 65-year-old, whose hits include Delilah and It’s Not Unusual, has been honoured for services to music.
Playwright Arnold Wesker and jazz musician John Dankworth are also knighted, while former BBC Radio head Liz Forgan is made a Dame.
TV star Bruce Forsyth, 77, is made a CBE, and actors Imelda Staunton, Robbie Coltrane and Sanjeev Bhaskar OBEs.
Broadcaster and former Newsnight presenter Peter Snow becomes a CBE along with sculptor Rachel Whiteread, while the OBE roll-call includes writer Jeanette Winterson and television chef Gordon Ramsay.
MBEs go to Coronation Street actor Roy Barraclough, singer/songwriter Eddi Reader and 1950s singing trio the Beverley Sisters - Babette, Joy and Teddie.
Jones, from Pontypridd in Wales, is one of the most famous pop singers of the past four decades.
He began his musical career in 1963 as vocalist in the group Tommy Scott And The Senators and has gone on to sell millions of records around the world.
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