Tom Jones looks back on his life and career with a new album of cover songs
Welsh singer Tom Jones joined Q’s Tom Power to look back on his music and relationship with fame, the loss of his wife of 59 years, and why covering other artists songs is like acting in a Shakespeare play.
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Posted: Apr 23, 2021 5:15 PM ET | Last Updated: April 23
Tom Jones’s latest release, Surrounded By Time, is out everywhere on April 23.(Rick Guest)
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30 April 2021 • 6:00pm
At 80, Tom Jones is expected to achieve his first number one since 1999 with album Surrounded By Time
Credit: Rick Guest
Chart-watchers will be forgiven for doing a double take when they look at the new album chart this evening. The top 20 is rammed with pensioners.
At 80, Tom Jones becomes the oldest ever man to have a number one album. He is also the oldest artist to top the charts with an album of new material (in pure age terms, Dame Vera Lynn pipped him to it aged 92 in 2009 with a greatest hits album). Jones’s album, Surrounded By Time, is his first chart-topper since 1999 – and, he said, he is “thrilled beyond words” at the news. Also entering the chart at number 11 is John Lennon (who died in 1980 but would be 80 if alive) wit
Sir Tom Jones says his wife and lover became close friends despite his affair She got to meet my wife because I was still happily married. Honestly. And they became friends. She became a friend of the family
Sir Tom Jones was married to wife Linda for 59 years (Image: Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images)
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Apr 30, 2021 | 12:55 PM
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