‘Everyone’s laughing at it!’ – how we made Release Me by Engelbert Humperdinck
‘I sang it live on TV and it sold 80,000 copies the next day – keeping the Beatles’ Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever off the No 1 slot’
June 2021
Prue Leith, Lemn Sissay and Alison Moyet recognised in Queen’s birthday honours
Key figures in UK arts, culture and sport rewarded in list dominated by heroes and heroines of pandemic
January 2020
Sunday with Engelbert Humperdinck: ‘My dreams are the blueprints of my reality’
To relax at the weekends, the singer enjoys Scrabble, golf and riding his Harley-Davidson
April 2019
Les Reed obituary
Les Reed, songwriter for Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck, dies age 83
February 2019
The Q&A
Engelbert Humperdinck: 'Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Elvis: I knew them all'
The singer on manners, record stores and being an easy sob
December 2018
Culture webchats
Engelbert Humperdinck on beating the Beatles, touring with Hendrix – and his name
The singer answered questions on his hometown, Leicester, working with Cat Stevens and the Walker Brothers, riding Harley-Davidsons, and his wife’s Alzheimer’s
June 2014
Every 2014 World Cup national anthem reviewed by a pop star!
They’ve had 25 No1 singles (more than Elvis) and 19 No1 albums (more than The Beatles), had their first hit in 1967 and their latest this year … they’re the Guardian’s World Cup national anthem review panel!
April 2014
Later ... with Jools Holland: Elbow, Neneh Cherry, Clean Bandit, Engelbert Humperdinck – as it happened
It's the return of the BBC's flagship music show, featuring a diverse array of stellar guests, from Elbow to Engelbert
February 2014
Eurovision Song Contest: vote rigging countries face three-year ban
Evidence found of an attempt by Azerbaijan to try to buy votes during last year's competition in Sweden. By John Plunkett
August 2013
Rumour mill
Football transfer rumours: Chelsea's David Luiz to Barcelona?
Chelsea's David Luiz to Barcelona? | Suárez-Bale-Rooney continue to Humperdinck | Marouane Fellaini to Man Utd?
June 2013
Hänsel und Gretel – review
A light, sugar-coated interpretation of the Grimm fairytale that should have opera-lovers licking their lips, writes George Hall
May 2013
Media Monkey
Bonnie Tyler told to prepare for long night at Eurovision
Media Monkey: The UK's great hope has been given a pep talk, of sorts, by Engelbert Humperdinck (and son)
March 2013
Lost in showbiz
In its bid to win the Eurovision war, the BBC is going nuclear with Bonnie Tyler
First it unleashed Jemini and Scooch on the song contest, then it was Engelbert. Now Auntie tramples on democracy to launch the Total Eclipse singer against all rivals
