Sir Tom jones In history, there can only be a knight who once threw a panty on him.
But 80s Welshmen who called the classics of the 60s “It’s Not Usual” and “What’s New Pussycat”. – as well as the 1971 hit film “She’s a Lady” – is yet to take place. In addition to holding his coach’s chair on “The Voice UK”, he is releasing a collection of covers, “Surrounded by Time”, on Friday.
Here, the “Sexbomb” singer dishes in an epidemic at the age of 80, the truth of which is Prince philippe Once insulting him and if he still wears leather pants.
How has it been for you with the last year and quarantine?
This is all right because I am doing “The Voice UK”, so I am kept busy. Actually my life is saved, you know, being out with people.
How did you refuse on June 80 in the midst of a lockdown?
With me, it is a big cognac and Cuban cigar. [Laughs.] It’s weird because in 2019 we were doing a tour, and I thought, “Wow, wait until 2020. I’m going to be 80 years old. I’m feeling great, I’ve got a great band What can possibly stop me now?
Have you been vaccinated yet?
Oh yes. I got my first one before Christmas and then I was the second one on 6 January. One good thing about being 80: I was in line for the first time!
So how did you go about choosing the cover of your new album?
I saved songs for a long time, and I didn’t record them because of my wife [of 59 years, Melinda] Died five years ago And I was not keen on recording. But time has passed, and I thought, “Okay, it’s time to [an album] Now a. “I worked with Ethan Johns, who did my last three albums, and my son Mark made it with Ethan. And it was the first time I had recorded in Wales … every song on the album. Something has meant something to me during my lifetime. For example, the opening track “I Won’t Crumble With You If You Fall.” Well, when my wife was suffering from cancer, she knew she was dying, and He said, “Now you can’t fall with me. I’ll be discharged, but you don’t have it. You continue.” So that song is for him.
You also cover Bob Dylan’s “Another Cup of Coffee”. Has Sir Tom ever met the bard?
I never really met him. But I came to it about six years ago [at the MusiCares Person of the Year tribute in Dylan’s honor]. He said, “Look, the way I’ll get into it is if you can get 10 people on this show that I like to sing my songs.” And I was one of the 10 because I recorded one [Dylan] The song “What Good Am I,” so I went there and sang it.
Prince Philip just passed, and he once insulted your singing. How would you feel about that?
Before we did that we were having cocktails at Buckingham Palace [benefit], And he came to me and explained what it was all about, which I thought was really cool. He said, “I am sure you have read that I have said so You have to howl with pebbles and stones. Well, this is how it went: I was in a small traders’ meeting, and they were complaining about not being subsidized by the government. So I used you as an example, well, the son of a coal miner from a small town in Wales [who] It has become a huge pop star … This man’s voice is very powerful, he should be beaten with pebbles and stones. “
Do you still rock your leather pants, Tom?
Ah, no. An 80 year old man in leather pants? I don’t think there will be any cuts.
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