From beginnings in the Welsh town of Pontypridd selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door, to sell-out Las Vegas shows and the ultimate accolade—a knighthood from the Queen—this celebration of the remarkable career of Tom Jones reveals the man behind the icon. His phenomenal journey is traced from his first South Wales gigs as an unsigned front man to his breakthrough hit It's Not Unusual, and eventual superstardom as the voice behind What's New Pussycat, Delilah, and She's a Lady. While his collaborations read like a who's who of pop and rock history, including works with Johnny Cash, Wyclef Jean, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, Pavarotti, The Pretenders, Sting, and Robbie Williams, it has not all been a trouble-free career for the legendary Grammy award–winning entertainer whose shows are renowned for panty-hurling frenzies. Hard times discussed include Tom's bed-ridden year, his affairs, losing his long-time manager to cancer, and the quiet times in his career that he rode to eventually come out on top.
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Gwen Russell is a highly successful journalist and author, specialising in the celebrity circuit. She is currently based in Bath.
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Sketchy Bio,
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This review is from: Arise Sir Tom Jones: The Biography (Hardcover)
This British publication is an easy read. It is repetitive but entertaining. Scrathes the surface--don't expect any great insights from this one..........
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True Tom,
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Having been a Tom Jones fan and then just a true admirer of the Man and his Music, since his beginning, I knew most of the things written in this biogragraphy to be the truth. It was just wonderful seeing them written down for all the world to see. Of course, all the women he has had, and a lot of the things that the "World of the Famous" have access to, really isn't the picture of a nice man. Knowing the man and how he treats his women, contradicts all the bad reports. The women that go into the "affairs" are warned that there cannot be a future permanancy and go into it with their eyes open and with the knowledge that it is only an experience. Women who think they are the ones to change that are delusional and are in for heartbreak. He is charming, sincere, generous, sweet, loving and kind, any woman's dream, but truely already taken. And millions of women dream on. The only sad part of this, is the knowledge that he has not acknowledged his illigitimate son, Jon Jones, and even if it was a set-up, this is his blood. A relationship should be made, however small. The book is very well written, while a bit repetitious in parts, but is not annoying when this happens, and there is not one statement that is not true. I really couldn't put it down, and finished it in one day. Great reading!!!!
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This book is a good review of the way Tom Jones came to be the great entertainer that he is. Much better than the previous book I read " Tom Jones up close and personal." Centers more on his career than on the love life he is supposed to enjoy, because if that is all true he needs to let all men know what his secret is!!A must read for any true Tom Teriffic Fan.
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