Max Bygraves obituary
Popular comedian, singer and TV host grew up in poverty but became a star of the Palladium and a top-selling recording artistThere was never much intellectual cachet in being an admirer of Max Bygraves. True, he was at one time, at £500,000 a year, Britain's highest-paid performer. But critics were at best patronisingly receptive and the intelligentsia tended to grope for the off switch whenever he was on radio or…