TOMMY STEELE AWARDS

1956

November – Voted as a “Top 10” male singer in the prestigious NME (New Musical Express) Reader’s Poll

England’s first Rock ‘N Roll star

England’s first teen idol

1957

Starred in first “Rock-umentary” – The Tommy Steele Story

October – NME Reader’s Poll voted Tommy as Number 2 World Music Personality (Elvis was number one).

October – NME Reader’s Poll voted Tommy as Number 2 British Male Vocalist (Dickie Valentine was number one)

October – NME Reader’s Poll voted Tommy as Number 1 British Male Personality

October – NME publishes a four page supplement in his honor

October – Receives invitation to appear at the Royal Film Performance and to meet Her Majesty, The Queen

November - Appears at the Royal Variety Performance and meets Her Majesty, the Queen

November – Chosen to be included in Madame Tussard’s world famous waxworks museum.

1958

(starting to move from Rock ‘N Roll into musical theatre entertainment)

“A Handful of Songs” was named the Outstanding British Composition at the Ivor Novello Awards

NME Polls show Tommy to be number 4 Vital Personality

NME Polls show Tommy to be number 6 Favorite Male Vocalist

“Cool for Cats” awards named him Entertainer of the Year

April – Awarded the Insignia of the Knight Order of the Scarlet Pimpernel from Sweden

1959

December – Tommy donates all his royalties from “Little White Bull” from the soundtrack of “Tommy, the Toreador” to Children’s

Cancer Research. This is the FIRST time an entertainer has made such a gesture.

Was sent as the representative of British Youth to the World Youth Conference in Moscow

1965

Tommy Steele: Winner of the Outer Circle Critics Achievement Award for “Half a Sixpence” on Broadway

Tommy Steele: Winner of the Whitbred Anglo-American Award for “Best Performance in a Musical This Season”

Tommy Steele: Nominated for “Best Actor in a Musical” for “Half a Sixpence”

1967

Voted “New Star of the Year” and “Star of the Future” for his role as John Lawless, the butler, in “Happiest Millionaire”

Nominated for a Golden Globe Award

1973

“A Special Tommy Steele” television presentation was selected as Britain’s entry to the Montreaux Film Festival

1974

Hans Andersen – breaks every record of the London Palladium’s 65 year history

September – Foyle’s Literary Luncheon held at the Dorchester Hotel in honour of the publication of Tommy’s autobiographical album,

“My Life, My Song”

October – One Man Exhibition of Tommy’s paintings at the Christopher Wade Gallery

1975

“Bermondsey Boy” sculpture is unveiled at the Rotherhithe Civic Center in Bermondsey

1976

Nominated for an Emmy Award for his television special, “Tommy Steele and A Show”

1979

January – awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for services to the theatre. When Her Majesty, the Queen, presented him with the OBE, she said, “This is from Us!” - The British people.

1980

One of Tommy’s paintings is put on exhibit in the Royal Academy

Named “Entertainer of the Year” by the Variety Club

1981

Painting “The Entertainer” was on exhibit at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Children’s novel, “Quincy”, was published

1982

December - “Eleanor Rigby” statue unveiled in Liverpool, commissioned by Liverpool CC.

1983

First novel, “The Final Run” published by William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd of London

September – The Variety Club gives a televised luncheon in honour of 25 years of West End Stardom

1985

Conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in a concert of his own symphonic composition, “A Portrait of Pablo” (Picasso)

1986

Conducted the Aarthus Symphony Orchestra, in Denmark, in his “A Portrait of Pablo”

1993

Presented with the Hans Andersen Award from the Danish Government at the Danish Embassy in London

1999

Star of the Daphne du Maurier Festival on May 14th

2001

BBC Entertainment News announces that Tommy Steele is among the first on the list to be invited to Buckingham Palace by Her Majesty, the Queen, for her anniversary celebration

2004

First recipient of the “Gold Star Hall of Fame” award at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. Shown on Television.

December - Awarded the “Blue Plaque Award” voted by the people of Southwark in a prestigious ceremony shown on Televison.

2005

Awarded a plaque by the London Palladium for being their most prolific headliner with 1,767 performances