Engelbert Humperdinck
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Engelbert Humperdinck, born Arnold George Dorsey, is a popular singer who was born on May 2, 1936, in India. In the 1950s, he performed under the name Jerry Dorsey and achieved some success in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He appeared in the television series "Oh Boy" and recorded a fairly successful single called "I'll Never Fall In Love Again".
During the rock era in 1963, Engelbert Humperdinck successfully reoriented himself to a new audience, and by 1967, he and his colleague Tom Jones were considered the recognized leaders of "masculine pop music", which often featured rock's characteristic hard riffs, a precise rhythmic square, and an emphasized refrain. During the peak of The Beatles' popularity, Engelbert Humperdinck released the single "Release Me" in 1967, which quickly sold over 2 million copies and spent five weeks at the top of the British charts, displacing The Beatles' single "Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields" to the second position. Around the same time, Humperdinck's song "There Goes My Everything" reached second place on the charts in England, and several months later, his single "The Last Waltz" once again topped the charts, with its sales in England reaching 1 million copies. Thus, in a year when England was captivated by the psychedelic rock trend, Engelbert Humperdinck became the highest-paid and most commercially successful English singer, surpassing Tom Jones in these indicators.
In the 1970s, Humperdinck did not experience the same level of success, but his previous commercial and creative achievements allowed him to live comfortably. The period of inactivity ended only in 1987 when Humperdinck released a new album called "Remember I Love You". In 1990, statistics showed that Engelbert Humperdinck had 59 "gold" albums, 18 "platinum" albums, and nearly 10 Grammy Awards for "Best Song of the Year". In the spring of 1997, Humperdinck went on tour in Russia, but the event did not generate much resonance here, unlike his tour in the United States in the same year when the press referred to Humperdinck's performances as the "best live work since Frank Sinatra was at the peak of his form".
