Does popular music count as ‘the Arts’?
Nonnie didn’t say the Bay City Rollers were less worthy than Gillian Lynne, only that she thought she had made a greater impact on the Arts, and having died, she deserved a mention on the BBC news as much as a member of the Bay City Rollers.
It depends how you measure worth - is it the amount of enjoyment or knowledge someone has given to a greater number of people, or the originality of thought and ideas that they have brought to their particular sphere?
Is someone who has taught A level physics to many thousands of students and even managed to get some of them to enjoy the subject, more or less worthy than the late Professor Stephen Hawking, for example?