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Heineken proved smart and opportunistic with last week’s ‘Don’t drink a start a league’ social media spots (it’s a sponsor of the Champion’s League), but its latest TV push shows a softer side.
Set to a big band-style version of Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’, it depicts a montage of good-looking folk applying make-up and scent, brushing teeth and donning best outfits. But we’re not going for a night out – yet. In fact our glamorous coterie are gussied up for bin day, dog walking, dry cleaning and essential grocery shopping (bog roll, milk – and Heineken, obviously).
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The late Dame Vera Lynn holds the overall record with her greatest hits collection We ll Meet Again – The Very Best Of, which reached the top spot in 2009 when she was 92.
Surrounded By Time is Sir Tom s fourth number one album and his first since 1999 s Reload.
He said yesterday: To hold these UK chart records is tremendous – just unbelievable. It s wonderful that the public has allowed me to be musically expressive at my time of life and shown their support.
Now 80 years and ten months old, the veteran star has surpassed singer-songwriter Dylan s achievement in topping the same chart at 79 years old last June with his album Rough And Rowdy Ways
Sir Tom Jones has topped the album charts (OfficialCharts.com/PA)
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Sir Tom Jones has become the oldest man to top the UK album chart.
The 80-year-old singer’s new release Surrounded By Time, his 41st studio album, sees him surpass Bob Dylan, who topped the chart at 79 last year with Rough And Rowdy Ways.
Sir Tom has also become the oldest artist to top the Official Charts Company rankings with an album of new material.
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It’s pretty rare for an 80-year-old artist to score a chart-topping album, but perhaps it’s not so unusual if that artist is
Sir Tom Jones. The Welsh pop idol has made history in his U.K. homeland by becoming the oldest male artist ever to reach #1 on the country’s Official Albums Chart. Jones, who’s 10 months past his 80th birthday, tops the tally with his latest studio album,
“I am thrilled beyond words with the reception for
Surrounded by Time, and to now hold these UK chart records is tremendous, just unbelievable,” Jones says in a statement. “I am so proud of everyone who helped me create this music, I had a ball working with them and to get this result is just incredible. It’s wonderful that the public has allowed me to be musically expressive at my time of life and have shown their support. I am forever grateful.”