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I love Tom Jones, probably more than any heterosexual male has a right to. Sure, I love his overblown ’60s hits, his too-tight pants, his unbuttoned shirts and medallions and the impish grin that’s caused countless panties and hotel room keys to be flung onstage wherever he’s appeared for the last four decades and change.
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Why we care: The High Priest of Panties is 68 now. But if this album is as awesome as I think it is, he’s about to have a major career comeback. Borrowing from the retro cool of Amy Winehouse and Duffy, TJ blends ’60s horns, hip-hop beats and his indefatigable lounge-lizard holler to make the [...]
Finally the security gave it up, Tom Jones fans ran to the stage to dance.. The evening started in a solid mood as the bigger part of the audience was from the senior age-group, and the youngers were not extreme figures either. Everybody waited for The Voice patiently, sitting on their seats. There were only [...]
TRUTH: “I gave them guidance and ideas and they found me, they found a Tom Jones song that fit the real me.” A team of songwriters, including Bono and Springsteen, digs into the man’s life in order to craft the man’s songs. Tom Jones went into Lillie’s Bordello looking for a drink and found a [...]
What goes around comes around… For the last twenty years the boyo from Pontypridd has been working with and covering the work of young bucks like EMF, The Art Of Noise, Prince, Catatonia, The Stereophonics, Robbie Williams etc etc, in a constant quest to re-tool his ’sex bomb’ image for the 21st century. While an [...]
Tom Jones has released the new album “24 Hours” after a 15-year hiatus. There’s a cliché sound for oldster comeback records these days, courtesy of star producer Rick Rubin. When the producer began his high-profile mission to clear away the cobwebs from some of his favorite older stars — including Johnny Cash, Donovan and Neil [...]
THANKS to the commercial and especially creative success of Johnny Cash’s final recording sessions with Rick Rubin, veteran artists no longer need be confined to trotting out all the 30 or 40-year-old hits or releasing insipid covers of “standards” in the twilight of their careers. Instead, they have been given permission to experiment and explore [...]
Tom Jones is back in the spotlight with the release of his latest album, which includes a track to his wife Linda. HE may have enjoyed a long and successful career thanks to his incredible voice, but Tom Jones is not renowned for singing about issues close to his heart. Until now. On Monday, the [...]
Back when I first saw the little Welsh Napoleon of Love in person, 30 years ago at the Arena, the word was plural: hips. That show was as much about his skintight black slacks — including tasteless jokes about his backside — as it was about his sturdy pop hits. Even though he was backed [...]
PART Anthony Newley but even more Otis Redding, the Welsh singer Tom Jones was a musical shape-shifter long before “American Idol” turned versatility into karaoke posturing. With a voice as husky as it was pretty, Mr. Jones at the peak of his popularity in the late 1960s could slide from soulful rasp to pop croon [...]
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