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Craig McLean Tue, September 2, 2025, 4:20 AM PDT The Telegraph

Visitors to House of Kong, the current East London exhibition that takes fans on a magical mystery tour of 25 years of Gorillaz, will see and hear many things. But one thing is sadly missing from the multi-media extravaganza: the creamy, crushed-velvet, supper-club tones of Engelbert Humperdinck.

“I wrote this really big, epic string ballad,” Gorillaz figurehead Damon Albarn told an Australian radio station as he promoted the 2010 album Plastic Beach. “I thought Engelbert Humperdinck would be fantastic on it. Well, he got the tune, and we thought he was going to do it… In the end it just didn’t work out, because he only comes to England once a year, and that’s fair enough. He didn’t want to be faffing around in the studio with somebody he wasn’t entirely [sure of].”

“Absolutely not true!” retorts Humperdinck, his indignation palpable all the way from Los Angeles, when I read this quote to him. “At that time, I had signed with another manager, and this manager knew nothing about music. So when the Gorillaz approached him to do the duet with me, he turned it down without even speaking to me,” the singer insists, eyebrows rising towards a cloud of chestnut brown hair, the outrage crinkling those still lustrous, Seventies-style mutton-chops. “Never even spoke to me about it. And when I heard about it, you know how long he lasted? Five minutes. Gone. I kicked him out. That prompted me to get rid of him.”

Well, I tell Humperdinck, when he couldn’t land his first-choice singer, Albarn decided to abandon that song. But the Blur man has recently been talking up a new Gorillaz album, so maybe the collaboration could ride again? “Oh, please God, yeah. Could you talk to them?” Humperdinck laughs.

The Last Waltz?

Not that the 89-year-old is sitting around, waiting for offers. He’s an old-fashioned, big-lunged crooner who came up at the same time as the Beatles – he halted their run of number one singles when, in 1967’s Summer of Love, his signature easy listening anthem Release Me outsold Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane. But he never took the easy option, with dozens of album releases and decades slogging through Las Vegas residencies and international tours. He even took a punt, in 2012, on the poisoned chalice that is representing the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest. In Baku he came 25th out of 26th, scoring nul points. But with 150 million records sold in 60 years, who’s counting?

The Sixties sex bomb, born Arnold Dorsey in Empire-era India and raised in Leicester, is currently in the midst of yet another world tour. This one is named after his 1967 chart-topper The Last Waltz, although he’s now regretting calling it that.

“I tell you what happened,” begins the singer, a sprightly, summery vision in white-spotted pink shirt. “The first part of the year was a little quiet, and I was climbing the walls. I called my manager and said: ‘This is definitely not going to be the last waltz for me. I’m capable of travelling. I’m still fit and well – I’m touching wood when I say that – and I’d like to continue doing the thing that I love to do. And that’s sing around the world.’”

Next month, he’s performing in Birmingham, which is not too far away from his house in Leicester: “I’m excited about that. I can’t wait to get home again, have a pint and a bag of crisps.”

From the Pink Palace to Leicester

Humperdinck is beaming in from a wood-panelled room in his Bel Air property. It’s a smaller home than the one he lived in between 1975 and 2004. That LA house, known as the Pink Palace – the most conspicuous incarnation of a wealth, at one time estimated at $100m – once belonged to the actress Jayne Mansfield. Humperdinck bought the 40-room mansion – previously owned by George Harrison and featuring a heart-shaped swimming pool – in 1976 and lived there for 28 years. “It was a beautiful house. Very Hollywood. My children grew up in that house, and they loved it.”

In fact, Humperdinck’s association with the Hollywood starlet ran even longer than those 29 years. When he went to see her perform one night in the summer of 1967, the pair’s eyes met across a crowded LA nightclub. “She even sat on my lap during the show. I thought: my God, I’ve got this amazing sex symbol sitting on my lap.” They then had dinner after her show, with Mansfield inviting the Englishman to come visit her at home the next time he was in town. Two weeks later she was dead, killed in a car crash.

Fast-forward six decades: the recent documentary My Mom Jayne, directed by her daughter Mariska Hargitay, also an actress, told the story of the return to the family, courtesy of Humperdinck, of a piano that once belonged to Mansfield. As he explains it, he had bought the piano from her estate. “And it was a Gershwin piano – I believe Gershwin composed Rhapsody in Blue on it. I had the piano for 29 years. But Mariska’s husband got in touch and wanted to buy it off me. So I sold it to them, and it’s gone back to the owners, back to the original family.”

Did he make some money on that? “Actually, I sold it for the same price as I bought it [for], although it was quite expensive when I bought it: 80 grand.”

As for his current home: he downsized here after the death, four years ago, of his wife, Patricia. They married in 1964, and she lived with Alzheimer’s for 10 years before contracting Covid in early 2021. Little wonder the man wants to keep busy.

“[The loss] changed my whole way of thinking, my whole way of reading a lyric. Because each song that I do seems to apply to the situation,” says the singer, whose repertoire includes the songs A Man Without Love, The Way It Used to Be and Forever and Ever (And Ever). “It’s more real now than it’s ever been. The reason why I want to work, I want to carry on doing this until God calls me, is because I love to do it. It’s my way of life. I enjoy writing poetry. But I don’t think I’ll be satisfied in my life just sitting at home doing nothing.”

Humperdinck first started performing in America 1968, relocating there full-time not long afterwards. “Although I don’t consider it my home; my home is definitely Leicester.” His move was one of financial necessity, not artistic choice. “In those days, when I first got successful, there was a super-tax – 90 per cent or something. It was ridiculous, people couldn’t survive on that. I wanted to be successful and keep what I was earning. I did 300 concerts a year when I first started. And most of [the earnings] would have gone in taxes. So it was a management move. Gordon Mills said: ‘We better go somewhere where we can keep the money a bit more.’”

From Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley

Mills was the friend and impresario who started managing the singer, then going by the stage name Gerry Dorsey, in 1965. Their partnership was tested early on when Humperdinck heard a new song co-written by German songwriter Bert Kaempfert. He was convinced that Strangers in the Night was a smash, but Mills told him it had already been claimed by another singer.

“I think there’s a lot more to that than meets the eye,” says Humperdinck carefully of that long-ago switcheroo. First, “I’d already recorded it, but they can’t find the tape… But when Gordon Mills said to me, ‘You can’t have it,’ I said: ‘But Gordon, it’s a definite number one.’ He says: ‘Well, Sinatra wants it.’ I think there was a little cash involved in that – Sinatra paid for it.”

Did he ever come across Frank Sinatra during his time in Vegas? “Oh, yeah. I came across him a lot. I used to play in his golf tournaments. Sinatra was a very unusual person. I can’t believe how much power this man had. He just dominated the business.”

Was Humperdinck intimidated by him? “I wasn’t afraid of him. I just put up with, ah, what you have to put up with,” he says with a shrug. There were much better relations with Sinatra’s fellow Rat Packers, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. “In all the people of the past, Dean was probably my favourite. I used to dine with him quite a lot over here, at La Famiglia, a restaurant in LA. Because his agent was my agent. My agent used to say: ‘I’m having dinner with Dean tonight. You want to come?’ Do I want to come? Course I do!”

Humperdinck and Mills’s relationship was a fruitful partnership, until it wasn’t. The saga of its unravelling emerges when our conversation turns to his friendship with Elvis Presley – another “lovely, lovely guy”. Humperdinck says: “I learnt a lot from watching Elvis. I always took notes. He was probably the best performer I ever saw on stage. He was good at what he did, and confident, but not conceited.”

He adds: “When somebody asked him, ‘Who are your friends in showbusiness?’, he always mentioned me. He said the reason for that was that I reminded him of the twin brother he lost at birth. But I think it’s the sideburns,” he adds with a twinkle.

“I saw some of his movies,” he continues. “When I first became successful in [America], Gordon Mills was getting a lot of scripts for me. But he used to dump them. He didn’t want me to be six months, eight months in the [film] studio – because then you’re making money for them.”

‘Ageing sex bombs at war’

So, for all his successes on the small screen – in the fashion of the early 1970s, Humperdinck hosted his own all-star variety shows on American and British television – “that’s how it finished up: I didn’t do any movies. I would have loved that part of my life to be in movies”.

Does the singer ever regret heeding Mills’s suggestion that he should call himself Engelbert Humperdinck (the name pinched from the 19th-century German operatic composer)? Billy Fury it wasn’t. “No. He was a genius in that respect. He started with me very well. We were best buddies. He was my best man, I was his best man. But I think he got so powerful with having this stable of me, Tom Jones and Gilbert O’Sullivan. But it was a big company, money went to his head, and he got too big for his boots.”

Jones, pointedly, is not another lovely, lovely guy. Which brings up another reason for Humperdinck’s split from Mills. “He had different ideas about [my career]. He was very partial to Tom – they were both Welsh – and I guess there was a closeness there. I felt a little bit left out, that both the reins weren’t together – one was here and one is here. Therefore, I got a bit upset, and I left the organisation.” (Humperdinck split from his manager in 1977 and, he says, “lost a fortune”; Mills died nine years later.)

So Mills was favouring Jones over you? “Oh yeah, without a doubt. Mind you, I think Tom Jones is a great performer, great singer, great everything. Although we’re not friends, I still think he’s probably one of the best singers the world has ever known. And I always will say that. I’m not jealous of him, in fact.”

Humperdinck has changed his tune. Early in 2024 he was quoted as saying of Sir Tom: “I think he’s lost his voice. I don’t think he’s got it anymore.” It was the latest salvo in – as the tabloid headline had it – an “ageing sex bombs at war” saga that has rumbled on for decades, long after they were labelmates on Decca Records.

As for that “sex bomb” appellation: that’s a harder one for Humperdinck to defuse. His 2011 memoir contained details of his “string of affairs and one-night stands”. As he later put it, he’d had “more paternity suits than casual suits”, and had some serious “making up” to do with his wife over his womanising. Last year an ex-girlfriend of Jones’s claimed that, around 1980, Humperdinck made a pass at her – adding fuel to the feud. Jones, clearly still furious, recently told a newspaper: “There’s nothing friendly about him and I. He’s a p----, quote me on that.”

Today, though, Humperdinck takes the high road, saying it’s Jones’s “choice” to refuse his olive branch. “I wish it wasn’t the way, but it is what it is. I don’t like to hold grudges. Life is too short for that sort of the thing.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/engelbert-humperdinck-m-not-jealous-112003827.html

https://vanguardofhollywood.com/podcast/

He has performed for the Queen four times, several presidents and many heads of state.

John Ferak Patch Posted Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 10:34 am CT

JOLIET, IL — Engelbert Humperdinck: “A Winter World of Love” A Night of Holiday Classics & Greatest Hits will be at the Rialto Square Theatre on Friday, December 5. Tickets are on sale Friday, August 22 at 10 AM.

According to the Rialto's press release,

"In a career spanning over 50 years, Engelbert has generated sales in excess of 140 million records, including 64 gold albums and 35 platinum, four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe, and stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Las Vegas Walk of Fame, and Leicester Walk of Fame.

"He has performed for the Queen four times, several presidents and many heads of state. He has recorded everything from the most romantic ballads to movie theme songs, disco, rock, and even gospel. His unique voice has charmed millions of fans around the globe.

"However, it’s not just the voice, but the man himself, with his endearing sense of humor and self- deprecating jokes.

"Engelbert has managed to strike a new chord with the younger generation, and his YouTube music videos & social media numbers are incredible.

"Engelbert exploded on to the music scene with The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The shy handsome man catapulted almost instantly to world icon. He became great friends with Elvis and the two legends often performed each other’s songs. His first single in the charts was “Release Me,” which went into the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks on the charts. It was No. 1 in 11 countries. The following decades see Engelbert constantly touring the world to sell-out crowds. He takes great pleasure in every moment on stage.

"Engelbert’s music has transcended time and his voice continues to reach out to people now – serving to transport and inspire, to embrace and to provoke feelings and emotions...ingredients that are no doubt the essence of his long-lasting success.

"Engelbert’s hit song “A Man Without Love” was featured in Marvel’s “Moon Knight” Disney+ Series. In Sony Pictures’ new Brad Pitt film “Bullet Train” Engelbert’s song “Forever Blowing Bubbles” is featured. And in Netflix’s ‘Umbrella Academy” his “Quando, Quando, Quando” is heard

"This show will be one of the many in the annual holiday series: The Rialto Square Theatre Home for the Holidays! This lineup of family-friendly shows includes classic titles, holiday favorites, well-known artists, and soon-to-be new holiday favorites. All shows will be announced and go on sale in the coming weeks. Please check our website for more information: www.RialtoSquare.com/holidays

https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/engelbert-humperdinck-coming-joliet-exploded-music-scene-beatles-rolling-ston

Story by Peter Sheridan Daily Express 2 August 2025

Tanned dark like antique oak, bejewelled as a Las Vegas cardsharp and still sporting his trademark bushy mutton-chop sideburns, Engelbert Humperdinck sips at his martini - "gin with a splash of dry vermouth, no ice, shaken, with a twist" - and gives the waiter a nod of approval. "I wanted to be James Bond," says the singer who, in addition to his penchant for martinis, has enjoyed a life that 007 might envy - jet-setting around the world with beautiful women throwing themselves at him.

"Sadly I'm too old to think of acting now," says the 89-year-old. "It's a regret. But I wanted to be an actor. A singer acts on stage, changing emotions on the spot. I received scripts from Hollywood, but my manager dumped them all in the trash.

"He didn't want me spending six months making a movie when I could be on the road performing and selling merchandise. I had no say in it."

Yet Englebert isn't complaining about the success he enjoyed, selling more than 150 million records, with 63 gold and 24 platinum albums, a Golden Globe and four Grammy nominations. His hits include The Last Waltz, There Goes My Everything, and 1967 smash Release Me, which stayed on the charts for 56 consecutive weeks and deprived the Beatles of their 13th consecutive No.1 with double-header Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields.

Even today his music videos attract more than 17 million views on social media, and his hit A Man Without Love has 167 million streams.

Engelbert is returning to England for a concert tour in September before a 30-date European tour stretching into December. He is also finishing up a new album of 'Eighties rock classics, with the original musicians from bands including Aerosmith, Journey, Kiss and The Cars.

"I don't need the money, I'm doing it because it's what I love," he says, though he no longer has his fleet of 14 Rolls Royces.

"Performing is my life's blood, and as long as I have a breath in my body I want to keep singing. I'll keep going until God calls me. I don't do all the dancing I used to do on stage, but I can still move around. I can still carry a three-and-a-half octave range."

Yet he walks slightly gingerly to our luncheon table, and opts for the support offered by a hard-backed chair. He has made no secret of dying his hair black since going prematurely grey at 25, and though his sideburns are not as luxuriant as they once were, he remains remarkable for his years.

In an opulent Beverly Hills restaurant on a street famed for its plastic surgeons, Engelbert dips Calamari into a trio of hot sauces and licks the juice from his fingers with care.

"I've never had cosmetic surgery on my face, and never will," he says.

"It can look unnatural, ridiculous. There's nothing I can do about being 89, but I try to keep myself as young as possible."

He dazzles indiscreetly. A diamond that could poke your eye out sits atop his left hand beside a hefty gold ring, and on his right hand a diamond-studded lucky horseshoe ring sparkles loudly. A large diamond-studded crucifix is hidden beneath his crisp blue-and-white patterned shirt, which in the Sixties would have been ripped from his back by screaming fans before he even sat down for hors d'oeuvres.

Over the years tens of thousands of panties, bras and hotel room keys have been thrown at him on stage. Women still toss him their room keys, he laughs, "but only after they've checked out the hotel."

He feels isolated since Patricia, his wife of 56 years, died in 2021, but he no longer has time for sex-hungry women. "I have no interest any more," he admits. "Of course I'm lonely. But if women come forward I don't act on it. I lost my soulmate, and I want to respect her memory."

Some might say he should have thought of that 50 years ago. Patricia once complained that her husband had "enough paternity suits to wallpaper a bedroom".

He shrugs. "Of course I regret my indiscretions. One always thinks the grass is greener, but it's not. I always apologised, but you can't wipe it away with an apology.

"She knew the business had its temptations, and she understood. She was a very classy lady. We had our ups and downs, but never fierce. I never wanted to hurt her. It wasn't always easy, but we stayed together."

His wife developed Alzheimer's disease over her final decade, and Engelbert says: "I tried everything to cure her. I took her to Germany for stem cell treatment, experimental injections in Los Angeles. Nothing helped. I'm convinced they have a cure for Alzheimer's, but Big Pharma won't let it out because of the money involved in treating it. I believe they have a cure for most diseases, and suppress them. It's disgusting."

Her death transformed him irrevocably.

"Losing my darling changed me forever," he says, his green eyes misting up. "I've learned a lot more, and feel the music a lot more. I read a lyric very differently now after losing my darling. My home is not the same without her."

Regrets, he has a few.

"I should be a billionaire," he says. "I've made some terrible choices, financially. I'd play to 100,000 people a night but have nothing to do with the merchandise. I lost out on millions. I never saw any of it."

He also regrets missing out on making Strangers In The Night a big hit.

"I recorded the song, but before I could release it Frank Sinatra wanted it, and the songwriter gave it to him. It was a huge hit, as I knew it would be. Decca searched for my original recording recently, but couldn't find it. So sad."

And he laments parting with his iconic Beverly Hills home famed as Jayne Mansfield's former Pink Palace, complete with heart-shaped pool. "I should never have sold it," he says, now living in "a small place in Bel Air," where he labours to stay in shape.

"I work out in the pool every day for 45 minutes, doing steps and martial arts moves," he says. He still has his 25-acre estate in Leicester, and says: "I love going back. I live in Bel Air, but I call Leicester home."

Born Arnold Dorsey in Madras, India, the ninth of ten children to a British Army Captain, he moved to Leicester at the age of 11.

Conscripted by National Service, he was stationed in Germany and recalls: "I was there the same time as Elvis was in the US Army, though he was a star and I was a nobody. Years later we became friends. He was a lovely man."

Arnold struggled for years, playing small clubs for little pay.

"I slept on park benches, in phone boxes and public toilets and then performed in clubs the next day," he recalls. "Many times I thought of giving up."

He lived on the dole, and received the last rites when near death with tuberculosis.

But in 1967 he was asked to appear as a last-minute replacement on ITV's The London Palladium Show, and having recently adopted the stage name of a little-known German classical composer, his career soared.

Yet he never legally changed his name from Dorsey to Humperdinck, explaining: "Engelbert is work, Arnold is reality." He is among the last survivors of his era of pop stars-turned-Las Vegas lounge entertainers.

"Elvis is gone now, like so many of the singers I knew," he says. "Tony Bennet was a gentleman, so good to me. Frank Sinatra was a legend, but I never liked the man behind the voice. Elvis told me I reminded him of the twin brother he lost at birth, if he'd lived.

"That's one of the reasons he copied my sideburns. My manager Gordon Mills told me: 'Shave them off, they look ridiculous.' But I kept them, and two years later Tom Jones wore them, Kenny Rogers, even the Beatles had sideburns."

Engelbert and Tom Jones were both in Mills' stable of artists, but over the years the two singers' friendship turned sour.

"We were very great friends, and then it suddenly turned around for some reason," says Engelbert, shaking his head. "To this day, if he offered me his hand I'd take it."

Twenty one years after publishing his autobiography, he is thinking of penning another.

"So much has happened since then, and a lot was left out of my first book, because it might offend people in the music industry," he says. "Now, I'm not so concerned.

"I've had hard times, but I'd do it all again. I've enjoyed my life. And I have so much I still want to do. I'm just getting started."

• Engelbert Humperdinck plays London on September 7; Bournemouth September 8; Liverpool September 10; and Birmingham September 11. Visit aegpresents.co.uk/event/engelbert-humperdinck/ for info and tickets

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/iconic-singer-says-he-would-never-have-plastic-surgery-for-one-reason/ar-AA1JKPB4

International music legend and acclaimed “King of Romance,” Engelbert Humperdinck, is coming as part of his global world celebration, The Last Waltz Tour.

The music icon, currently on tour and celebrated for his velvet voice and timeless ballads, has captivated millions worldwide for over six decades. Humperdinck is best known for his iconic hit “Release Me,” which topped charts in 11 countries and spent an extraordinary 56 weeks in the UK Top 50 singles chart. His illustrious career boasts enduring classics such as “Am I That Easy To Forget,” “Quando Quando Quando,” “A Man Without Love,” “The Last Waltz”and “Spanish Eyes.” Most recently, his 1968 hit “A Man Without Love” found new fans after being featured in Marvel’s hit series Moon Knight starring Oscar Isaac and the Brad Pitt film Bullet Train.

With more than 150 million records sold globally, numerous awards, and a legacy spanning generations, Humperdinck remains one of the world’s most beloved performers. Engelbert recently has been to Australia, South Africa, Europe, the UK, Chile, Canada, the United States and Southeast Asia.

Fans can look forward to a magical night featuring his greatest hits from Universal’s “50th” and selections from his 2023 album All About Love—which reimagines classics from the Great American Songbook—and even unexpected renditions of ‘80s rock anthems.

This historic performance promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness a true musical icon whose romantic ballads have stood the test of time.

This show is approximately 90 minutes.

https://www.thestar.sg/events/engelbert-humperdincks-last-waltz-farewell-tour-singapore

MEGAN JOHNSON

Tue, June 24, 2025, 5:43 PM PDT Parade

Engelbert Humperdinck is 89 and better than ever!

The legendary crooner was spotted by the Daily Mail enjoying a screening of My Mom Jayne in Los Angeles, joined by his daughter, Louise. The documentary follows the life of Mariska Hargitay's late mother, Jayne Mansfield.

The British crooner looked as handsome as ever in a black suit with a black-and-white striped tie over a white shirt. Louise also looked lovely, wearing a dress in black and white.The beloved singer has also raked in plenty of fans on social media, where he's an avid user of TikTok and Instagram. He even recently chatted openly there about how much he misses cruising the open road on his Harley.

"I need to get a gadget to strap my phone to my chest so you can come along with me," the singer shared.

While he may not be doing it from his Harley, he'll be hitting the road quite soon. Last month, he announced a series of tour dates that will have fans ready to belt out his greatest his from his 42 studio albums.

“So happy to be celebrating another stepping stone in life …. The road, the music and the places I get to see keep me young at heart,” Humperdinck shared in a statement, according to UDiscover Music. “And the audiences, some who have been with me since the very beginning and some who have just discovered my music, are both fuel and tonic to me. I work hard and work out religiously and thank God for my blessings.”

https://www.aol.com/music-icon-89-makes-rare-004350978.html

By BRIAN GALLAGHER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 16:26 EDT, 24 June 2025 | UPDATED: 18:35 EDT, 24 June 2025 

Engelbert Humperdinck made a rare public appearance with his daughter Louise Dorsey on Monday.

The 89-year-old singer, who has recently been embroiled in a feud with another crooner, Tom Jones, was spotted at a Los Angeles screening of My Mom Jayne, a documentary about Jayne Mansfield made by her daughter Mariska Hargitay.

Humperdinck has a historic association with Mansfield - after her tragic death, he was one of the celebrity owners of her iconic Sunset Blvd mansion the 'Pink Palace.' 

He was joined on the red carpet with his daughter Louise Dorsey before watching the new documentary from actress-turned-filmmaker Mariska.

The legendary singer stepped out in a classic black suit with a white dress shirt, a black and white striped tie, black belt, black pants and black shoes.

He was joined by his daughter Louise, who wore a unique black shirt with a white stripe and shoulder cutouts.

He was joined on the red carpet with his daughter Louise Dorsey before watching the new documentary from actress-turned-filmmaker Mariska.

The legendary singer stepped out in a classic black suit with a white dress shirt, a black and white striped tie, black belt, black pants and black shoes.

He was joined by his daughter Louise, who wore a unique black shirt with a white stripe and shoulder cutouts.

Born Gerry Dorsey, the singer adopted the stage name Engelbert Humperdinck in the 1960s at the urging of his manager Gordon Mills.

Mills, who had already gotten his other client Tom Woodward to become Tom Jones, persuaded the young Dorsey that a similar move would help his still sluggish career get off the ground.

Armed with his exciting, exotic new name - which was swiped from the German composer of the 19th century opera Hansel and Gretel - the freshly minted Engelbert Humperdinck exploded in popularity with hits like Release Me and The Last Waltz.

The 'Pink Palace' was a legendary home on Los Angeles' Sunset Blvd that was originally built in the 1930s for the celebrated singer Rudy Vallee.

Jayne Mansfield bought the sprawling eight-bedroom mansion for $76,000 in 1957 and lived there with her second husband Mickey Hargitay, whom she was married to when she welcomed Mariska into the world.

She was the one who had the house done entirely in pink, down to the color of the champagne that flowed of her fountain and even the shag carpet covering the walls, ceiling and floor of her bathroom.

After Mansfield tragically in a car accident in 1967 at the age of 34, the home passed from celebrity to celebrity, including 'Mama Cass' Elliot and Ringo Starr.

Its final famous owner was Humperdinck, who purchased the property in 1976 and painted it white, only to then feel it had 'lost its character' and go back to pink.

'I lived there for 28 years, Jayne for just eight, but it was always her home,' he recalled to DailyMail.com years ago. 

'Sonny and Cher lived next door and Esther Williams lived opposite. I had dinner with Jayne Mansfield two weeks before she was killed and she invited me to stay with her.'

By the early 1990s, he was attempting to offload the sprawling Mediterranean-style mansion, which he ultimately sold in 2002 to developers who had it razed.

The crooner made headlines in November with an exclusive interview with Daily Mail where he opened up about his decades-long feud with Tom Jones, who he called, 'a pr**k.'

‘Whatever he thinks is fine with me, but I would never repeat those words to him,’ said Engelbert, famed for tunes like The Last Waltz and Release Me.

‘I was brought up to believe that civility costs nothing – my father taught me that – and if you’re not going to say anything good about somebody, don’t say anything at all.

‘I have never done that and I never will,' he added.

Reminded that he has previously been reported as saying Tom, 84, had ‘lost his voice’, Engelbert responded: ‘I never made that criticism, no sir.

‘I have always said the man is a great talent with a great voice and that is why he is still around today.

‘I’ve never said anything derogatory about that man, never.'

The two men are forever linked thanks to their parallel careers. Both were managed by Gordon Mills who suggested they change their names to find fame.

Gerry Dorsey chose the moniker of an obscure German composer while Thomas Woodward picked the far simpler name from a Henry Fielding novel.

Tom had the greater success with smash hits like It’s Not Unusual and What’s New Pussycat?, but Engelbert wasn’t far behind on both sides of the Atlantic with songs like Les Bicyclettes de Belsize and Am I That Easy to Forget?

Both were sex symbols with long-standing marriages, Tom married Linda Trenchard aged 16 when she became pregnant, and Engelbert tied the knot with Patricia Healey in 1964.

Sadly, both are now single again. Linda died of cancer in 2016 while Patricia died the following year after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14841093/Engelbert-Humperdinck-89-makes-rare-appearance-daughter-Jayne-Mansfield-documentary-event.html

Sat, June 7, 2025, 10:52 AM PDT KTLA - Los Angeles

He's a global music legend who's sold over 140 million records worldwide and at 89 years young, Engelbert Humperdinck is still going strong. You can catch him live at the Saban Theatre on June 14 and Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside on June 15. For tickets and more information, visit Engelbert.com. This segment aired on the KTLA 5 Morning Weekend News on June 7, 2025.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/engelbert-humperdinck-releases-album-love-175254870.html

• MARY HAWKINS

• UPDATED:3 HOURS AGO Parade May 29, 2025

• Plenty of musicians are super active on social media these days... even those who are well into their 80s! Beloved British pop singer, Engelbert Humperdinck, 89, is just as savvy on TikTok as the younger generations, and he even has a weekly series, which he calls "Tuesday Museday." Fans look forward to it every week.

• For this week's posting, he delighted his followers by visiting one of his favorite local LA area restaurants, Rita's Gate of India in Santa Monica. Joined by his son, Brad, he described why he loves this particular spot so much.

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  "I'm plugging it because I love it. I love this... the way she cooks and takes care of me... she spoils me, in fact."
  
  He also made a fun announcement during the video.
  
  "I'll be at the Saban in a few days in Los Angeles, and if you get a chance, come catch me."
  
  Humperdinck's performance at the Saban Theater in LA on June 14 is the first of many upcoming appearances, and tour dates are listed on his website.
  
  Fans who watched the clip this week praised the singer in the comments, with one saying, "You're a legend."
  
  Another added, "You deserve to be spoiled like you spoil us with your beautiful songs. God bless you ❤️💖"
  
  Someone else said, "Hello Enge, Was waiting for your chat, makes my day. I am so glad to see Bradley. I will see you in Sept. in Mass. and Rhode Island. Love you."
  
  And one other commenter chimed in with, "Hugs hugs, you are so wonderful. With love from Canada 🇨🇦"

• Humperdinck's biggest hits include "Release Me," "A Man Without Love," and "The Way It Used to Be."
  
  To catch these tunes live, be sure to pick up tickets to one of his upcoming shows! It's not every day that you get to see a living legend in action.

• https://parade.com/news/music-icon-89-delights-fans-with-la-restaurant-visit

by NOISE11.COM on MAY 22, 2025

It’s not often that tourists get to see a real-life superstar cleaning his own star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame but that’s exactly what happened when legendary singer Engelbert Humperdinck decided to take a stroll down the famous boulevard this week.

Engelbert, best known for his for his mega hits Release Me, A Man Without Love, Quando Quando Quando, amongst others, amazed onlookers as he used his foot to wipe a hanky over his star. “I would get on my knees to clean it but people may think I’m strange,” the singer said as he personally filmed it for his weekly Tuesday museday for his social media channels.

He was later spotted signing autographs for dozens of thrilled fans proving yet again that he is not that easy to forget.

https://www.noise11.com/news/engelbert-humperdinck-takes-a-waltz-down-hollywood-boulevard-to-clean-up-his-star-20250522