It Isn't a Sign of the End of the World

But it should be! Tom Jones is to be knighted.

I know it's all a matter of taste and Jones has outlasted many of his contemporaries. But it is hard to picture a guy who sang stuff like What's New Pussycat? and Delilah receiving the same honor as Winston Churchill and Lawrence Olivier, or Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney, for that matter.