So I wouldn't see Wings as a band that would go into the Hall of Fame, to be honest.
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
My great-grandfather was a variety hall comedian called Billy Mack.
I'm a fan of old vaudeville theaters.
My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.
I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall.
I come from a very vaudevillian family.
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.
It would be a dream to perform at Radio City Music Hall.
Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame.
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.
If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.
Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
What the hell is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what does it do besides talk about itself and sell postcards?
There were a great many in vaudeville - people who never quite came through. But they had their place, and they filled it. They kept theatres open. Those pan-timers, those interstate-timers, those four-a-dayers, those six-a-dayers - they were an integral part of that endearing merry-go-round called vaudeville.
My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre.
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests - music hall and that whole world. So, there's a lot that I felt connected with.
