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Longtime "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson said, "Johnny Mathis is the best ballad singer in the world."
He appeared on the show with Carson's successor, Jay Leno, on March 29, 2007, to sing "The Shadow of Your Smile" with the saxophonist Dave Koz.
Through the years, his songs (or parts of them) have been heard in 100 plus television shows and films around the globe.
His appearance on the "Live by Request" broadcast in May 1998 on the A&E Network had the largest television viewing audience of the series.
Also in 1989, Johnny sang the theme for the ABC daytime soap opera "Loving".
Mathis served as narrator for "'51 Dons", a 2014 documentary film about the integrated and undefeated 1951 San Francisco Dons football team.
The team was denied a chance to play in a bowl game because it refused to agree to not play its two African-American players, Ollie Matson and Burl Toler, who were childhood friends of Mathis.
On January 14, 2016, Mathis performed to a sold-out audience in The Villages as part of his "60th Anniversary Concert Tour."
Mathis appeared in the Season 14 finale of "Criminal Minds", "Truth or Dare", in which he played himself as an old friend of David Rossi and served as best man at Rossi's wedding.
Despite missing the Olympic high-jump trials, he retains enthusiasm for sports.
He is an avid golfer, with nine holes in one to his credit.
He has hosted several Johnny Mathis Golf Tournaments in the United Kingdom and the US.
Since 1985, he has been hosting a charity golf tournament in Belfast sponsored by Shell corporation, and the annual Johnny Mathis Invitational Track & Field Meet has continued at San Francisco State University since it started in 1982.
He also enjoys cooking and in 1982, he published a cookbook called "Cooking for You Alone".
Mathis has undergone rehabilitation for both alcohol and prescription drug addictions, and he has supported many organizations through the years, including the American Cancer Society, the March of Dimes, the YWCA and YMCA, the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the NAACP.
Mathis was quoted in a 1982 "Us Magazine" article, stating "Homosexuality is a way of life that I've grown accustomed to."
Despite the rumors, "Us Magazine" never retracted the statement.
The interviewer, Alan Petrucelli, still has the tapes.
In 2006, Mathis said that his silence had been because of death threats he received as a result of that 1982 article.
On April 13, 2006, Mathis granted a podcast interview with "The Strip" in which he talked about the subject once again, and how some of his reluctance to speak on the subject was partially generational.
During an interview with "CBS News Sunday Morning" on May 14, 2017, Mathis discussed the "Us Magazine" article and confirmed he is gay.
"I come from San Francisco.
It's not unusual to be gay in San Francisco.
I've had some girlfriends, some boyfriends, just like most people.
But I never got married, for instance.
I knew that I was gay."
Mathis spoke to many news sources, including CBS, about his sexuality and his story about coming out.
In 2003, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded Mathis the Lifetime Achievement Award.
This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of the Recording Academy's National Trustees to performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artist significance to the field of recording.
Mathis has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings – in 1998 for "Chances Are", in 2002 for "Misty", and in 2008 for "It's Not for Me to Say".
On June 21, 2014, Mathis was inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall Of Fame along with Linda Ronstadt, Shirley Jones, and Nat King Cole (whose daughter Natalie Cole accepted the award on his behalf).
The awards were presented by the Center for the Performing Arts artistic director Michael Feinstein.
Defined on their website, "Conceived as an enduring testament to the Great American Songbook, the Hall of Fame honors performers and composers responsible for creating America's soundtrack."
In 1978, his hit duet "The Last Time I Felt Like This" from the film "Same Time, Next Year" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Mathis and Jane Olivor sang the song at the Academy Awards ceremony, in his second performance at the Oscars.
His first occurred 20 years earlier in 1958, when he sang "Wild Is the Wind" by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington from the movie of the same name.
He was also awarded the Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
In 2007, Mathis was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
In 1988, Johnny appeared as a guest vocalist, accompanied by Henry Mancini, on "Late Night with David Letterman" to sing Henry's theme to the "Viewer Mail" segment.
In 2017, Mathis's alma mater San Francisco State University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.
Mathis attended San Francisco State for three semesters before withdrawing in 1956 to pursue his music career.
Greenwich Peninsula
Greenwich Peninsula is a district of south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
It is bounded on three sides by a loop of the Thames, between the Isle of Dogs to the west and Silvertown to the east.
To the south is the rest of Greenwich, to the south-east is Charlton.
Formerly known as Greenwich Marshes and as Bugsby's Marshes, it became known as East Greenwich as it developed in the 19th century, but more recently has been called North Greenwich due to the location of the North Greenwich Underground station.
This should not be confused with North Greenwich on the Isle of Dogs, at the north side of a former ferry from Greenwich.
The peninsula's northernmost point on the riverside is known as "Blackwall Point", and this may have led to the name "Blackwall Peninsula" sometimes being used in the late 20th century.
Landmarks include "The Dome" (also known by the current corporate logo The O and previously the Millennium Dome) and the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel, but the area is now being substantially redeveloped with new homes, offices, schools, parks and Ravensbourne University London a creative based university built on the peninsula in 2010, situated neighbouring The O.
The peninsula was drained by Dutch engineers in the 16th century, allowing it to be used as pasture land.
In the 17th century, Blackwall Point (the northern tip of the peninsula, opposite Blackwall) gained notoriety as a location where pirates' corpses were hung in cages as a deterrent to other would-be pirates.
In the 1690s the Board of Ordnance established a gunpowder magazine on the west side of the peninsula, which was in operation by 1695 serving as the government's primary magazine (where newly milled powder was stored prior to being distributed, on board specially-equipped hoys, to wherever it was needed).
Alongside the magazine was a wharf, a proof house and accommodation for the resident Storekeeper.
From the early 18th century, however, local residents began petitioning Parliament, asking for the magazine (and its dangerous contents in particular) to be removed; this eventually led to the establishment of a new set of Royal Gunpowder Magazines downriver at Purfleet, which was opened in 1765.
By 1771 gunpowder was no longer stored at Greenwich (though the buildings remained "in situ" for some decades afterwards).
The peninsula was steadily industrialised from the early 19th century onwards.
In 1857 a plan was presented to Parliament for a huge dock occupying much of the peninsula, connected to Greenwich Reach to the west and Bugsby's Reach to the east, but this came to nothing.
Early industries included Henry Blakeley's Ordnance Works making heavy guns, with other sites making chemicals, submarine cables, iron boats, iron and steel.
Henry Bessemer built a steel works in the early 1860s to supply the London shipbuilding industry, but this closed as a result of a fall in demand due to the financial crisis of 1866.
Later came oil mills, shipbuilding (for example the 1870 clippers "Blackadder" and "Hallowe'en" built by Maudslay), boiler making, manufacture of Portland cement and linoleum (Bessemer's works became the Victoria linoleum works) and the South Metropolitan Gas company's huge East Greenwich Gas Works.
Early in the 20th century came bronze manufacturers Delta Metals and works making asbestos and 'Molassine Meal' animal feed.
For over 100 years the peninsula was dominated by the gasworks which primarily produced town gas, also known as coal gas.
The gasworks grew to , the largest in Europe, also producing coke, tar and chemicals as important secondary products.
The site had its own extensive railway system connected to the main railway line near Charlton, and a large jetty used to unload coal and load coke.
There were two huge gas holders, of 8.6 and 12.2 million ft (240,000m and 345,000m).
The larger holder, originally the largest in the world, was reduced to 8.9 million ft (250,000m) when it was damaged in the Silvertown explosion in 1917, but was still the largest in England until it was damaged again by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb in 1978.
Originally manufacturing gas from coal, the plant began to manufacture gas from oil in the 1960s.
Its peak production of 400 million ft per day (11.3 million m) in the mid 1960s is believed to have been the largest of any single site in the world.
The discovery of natural gas reserves in the North Sea soon rendered the complex obsolete.
On the eastern shore was Blackwall Point Power Station; the original station from the 1890s was replaced in the 1950s by a new station which ceased operation about 1981.
A large area including the site of the Victoria linoleum works later became the Victoria Deep Water Terminal in 1966, handling container traffic.
At the southern end of the peninsula Enderby's Wharf was occupied by a succession of famous submarine cable companies from 1857 onwards, including Glass Elliot, W T Henley, Telcon, Submarine Cables Ltd, STC, Nortel and Alcatel.
The peninsula remained relatively remote from central London until the opening of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1897, and had no passenger railway or London Underground service until the opening of North Greenwich tube station on the Jubilee line in 1999.
Closure of the gasworks, power station and other industries in the late 20th century left much of the Greenwich Peninsula a barren wasteland, much of it heavily contaminated.
In the early years of the 21st century, surviving industries were mainly concentrated on the western side of the peninsula, between the river and the A102 Blackwall Tunnel southern approach road.
They included Alcatel, a Tunnel Refiners/Amylum glucose plant (from 1976 until about 2008 part of Tate & Lyle) which closed in 2009, and two large marine aggregate terminals on the Delta Metals and Victoria Deep Water Terminal sites.
One of the two gas holders also remains.
Public and private investment since the early 1990s has brought about some dramatic changes in the peninsula's topography.
In 1997 the national regeneration agency, English Partnerships, (now named the Homes and Communities Agency) purchased 1.21 square kilometres (300 acres) of disused land on the peninsula.
The agency's investment of over £225m has helped to enhance the transport network and create new homes, commercial space and community facilities and to open up access to parkland along the river.
In addition to the construction of the Millennium Dome, new roads were built on the eastern side of the Peninsula in anticipation of new developments.
New riverside walkways, cycle paths and public artworks were also created, including Antony Gormley's "Quantum Cloud" and "A Slice of Reality", a work by Richard Wilson.
Two phases of Greenwich Millennium Village, a mixed-tenure residential development, with a primary school, a medical centre, a nature reserve with associated education centre have been completed.
A Holiday Inn hotel was also built nearby, and the Greenwich Yacht Club was relocated to a new site south-east of the Dome.
North Greenwich tube station on the Jubilee line opened in 1999.
It is one of the largest London Underground stations and also has a bus station.
The North Greenwich Pier offering commuter boat service to other parts of London, both east and west, is located on the Thames just to the east of the tube station.
In 2004 outline planning permission was granted for further large-scale redevelopment of the site, including over 10,000 further homes, some facing the river or overlooking the park, of office space and the conversion of the Millennium Dome into an indoor arena, renamed The O, which was used as a London 2012 venue.
South of The O, new public realms were created, "Peninsula Square" and "Green Place".
To the east of Peninsula Square is Ravensbourne University London, which relocated to Greenwich Peninsula in September 2010.
In 2011, the university's campus won an award in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards for London.
From a shortlist of 55 schemes, the Ravensbourne building won the education and community category.
To the south east of the square, the six storey 14 Pier Walk building houses offices for Transport for London.
Adjacent to this is the 11 storey 6 Mitre Passage office building.
New restaurants and shops have opened facing onto Peninsula Square and Green Place.
Transport for London constructed a cable car over the River Thames for Summer of 2012 just before the 2012 Summer Olympics began.
This runs from a riverside station south-east of the O2 over the river to the Royal Victoria Dock near the ExCeL Centre.
Adjacent to the cable car terminus was a large temporary building housing the London Soccer Dome, formerly the David Beckham Academy.
This opened in 2005 and the building finally closed in 2014, with the main structures being dismantled, transported and re-erected in Southend; the site is intended for residential use.
Approximately 400m further south, is the Pilot Inn public house, one of the oldest remaining buildings on the peninsula.