English traditional pop singer, best known for his cover version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune "Edelweiss", which reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. He recorded 25 studio albums and several soundtracks, wrote songs and plays and hosted TV shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including They Sold a Million, Musical Time Machine and the chat show Gas Street. Outside of his work in show business, he was a patron of the Macular Society, a UK charity for anyone affected by central vision loss
