What does it mean to be honored with the Billboard Century Award?
It means everything. Billboard is the bible of the music business. I’m going to be 80 years old and to still have people interested in me is fantastic. My 80th feels like a big payoff to me. It’s really the best year I’ve ever had in show business. It’s been a yearlong celebration. Your career spans more than five decades. Does your success still shock you? I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve always had sold-out [shows and albums] throughout my life. The public has been great to me. It was because of the thrust from Billboard magazine originally. Billboard always had me on the charts. It really institutionalized me when I was very young, in the ’50s and right into the early ’60s. That was enough of a thrust that everyone in America got to know me. I was the first to kick off “The Merv Griffin Show,” “The Steve Allen Show” and Johnny Carson. And Rosemary Clooney and I would always be invited to “The Ed Sullivan Show” to get them the ratings. We were the first American Idols. Then Michael Jac
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