Oldies Music

“People always see me as the larger-than-life showman, laughing on The Voice, but no one knows my mother had to sell our little terraced house in Pontypridd, Wales… just so I could afford to keep singing.”…In a deeply emotional, two-hour retrospective interview on the BBC, Sir Tom Jones, the usually boisterous legend, broke down for the first time. Tears welled up in his eyes as he opened up about the gritty reality of his early days — the years his family lived paycheck to paycheck in the valleys, the nights he sang in smoky working men’s clubs for pennies, and the painful reality of being rejected by London executives who said he was “too aggressive” and “too rough” to be a star.

Introduction Tom spoke through a trembling voice, his Welsh accent thick with emotion: “There were...

Amidst the glittering lights of Hollywood, Tom Jones once had it all fame, the stage, the applause….But when Linda, his partner of 59 years, left him forever… his world suddenly became empty. He left Los Angeles, leaving a place full of memories, where every corner of the house echoed with old laughter. “I will never marry again,” he said, his voice broken—like a vow to the only soul his heart had ever chosen. Now, in the middle of a silent house, he lives alone not because of loneliness, but because love is still there, never fading. A strong man on stage, but also a lost man when the shadow of his soulmate is no longer there. There are loves that do not need to end with a final hug because they live forever in memory. And Tom Jones carries it… every day.

Introduction There are voices that define an era — and then there are lives that...