[joeysteele]

I would celebrate unsurprisingly 'Petula Clark'.
A child star who sang for the troops during the war,made films as a child and into adulthood,became a radio star and then a recording star with hits in the 50s through to the 80s.
Still going now, performing and recording new albums,the last one, 'Lost in You' released in 2013 making the UK album charts.
A huge star internationally across the World and particularly in France where she scored hit after hit with her recordings.

The first British female singer to reach the top of the USA charts in the 60s with 'Downtown', and the first British female singer to win a grammy and then another grammy for 'Downtown' and 'I know a Place' the same year.

A successful West end and Broadway star too with the 80s revival of the Sound of Music, then Blood Brothers in the 90s in the USA with David and Sean Cassidy,followed by success in Sunset Boulevard in the late 90s both in the UK and then touring the States again with it in the early 2000s.
A TV star of the 60s and 70s with her own shows and endless specials here in the UK and in the USA too.

Still performing to the present day, still recording, still touring, making in my view one of the best songs of the 2010s in 'CUT COPY ME' which made a chart in Europe.
With another brand new album to be released in September,'From Now On' and a small UK tour too.

Someone, not in your face, who is down to earth, now in her 80s,showing no signs of stopping and someone who in my view is a real credit to show business and how celebrities should be and act.
As well as in my view being the greatest stylist of songs and for me any songwriter,(and she is one herself too),who has had their songs recorded by 'Petula' should count themselves really lucky as songwriters indeed.
Amazing and a really true star.

Obviously I am a fan, it has been a privilege for me since being in my teens to now at 24,to have researched and gathered all the recordings of this truly special star from the UK.