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Musical career

He rose to fame in the mid-1960s, with an exuberant live act which included wearing tight breeches and billowing shirts, in an Edwardian style popular amongst his peers at the time. Jones was awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Artist for 1965.

Following several hits in the UK, he moved to the US and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. He was known for his overt sexuality in the 1960s, before this was as common as it became in subsequent years. Women would swoon and scream, and in 1968, starting at New York's Copacabana night club, some would throw their panties on stage. Soon after, he began to play Las Vegas, where he still plays today for 10 to 12 weeks each year. There, they started throwing hotel room keys.

Personal Life

Tom quit school with no qualifications and took a variety of jobs including a builder's labourer and a door to door vacuum salesman. Jones married Linda in 1956 and had a child at the age of sixteen, long before becoming a pop idol. Despite frequent and much publicised infidelities, including an affair with the dethroned Miss World of 1973, USA's Marjorie Wallace, he has remained married and a family man. He lives in Beverly Hills, California and tours through most of the year.

Discography

Singles

∙ "Chills & Fever" b/w "Breathless" (August 1964)

∙ "It's Not Unusual" b/w "To Wait For Love" (January 1965)

∙ "Chills & Fever" b/w "Baby, I'm In Love" (April 1965, Tower 190, USA only, produced by Joe Meek)

∙ "Once Upon A Time" b/w "I Tell The Sea" (April 1965)

∙ "Little Lonely One" b/w "That's We'll All Do" (May 1965, produced by Joe Meek)

∙ "With These Hands" b/w "Untrue" (July 1965)

∙ "What's New Pussycat?" b/w "Rose" (August 1965)

∙ "Lonely Joe" b/w "I Was A Fool" (October 1965, produced by Joe Meek)

∙ "Thunderball" b/w "Key To My Heart" (1966)

∙ "To Make A Big Man Cry" b/w "I'll Never Give Away Love" (1966)

∙ "Once There Was A Time" b/w "Not Responsible" (1966)

∙ "This And That" b/w "City Girl" (1966)

∙ "The Green, Green Grass of Home" b/w "If I Had You" (1966)

∙ "The Green, Green Grass Of Home" is his biggest-selling single. In the all-time UK best-sellers list published in 2002, it came 47th with an audited sale of 1.2 million copies.

∙ "Detroit City" b/w "If I Had You" (1967)

∙ "Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings" (1967)

∙ "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" b/w "Things I Wanna Do" (1967)

∙ "I'm Coming Home" b/w "The Lonely One" (1967)

∙ "Delilah" b/w "Smile" (1968)

∙ "Help Yourself" b/w "Day By Day" (1968)

∙ "A Minute Of Your Time" b/w "Looking Out Of My Window" (1968)

∙ "Love Me Tonight" b/w "Hide And Seek" (1969)

∙ "Without Love" b/w "The Man Who Knows Too Much" (1969)

∙ "Daughter Of Darkness" (1970)

∙ "I (Who Have Nothing)" (1970)

∙ "She's A Lady" (1971)

∙ "My Way" (1971)

∙ "Puppet Man" (1971)

∙ "Till" (1971)

∙ "The Young New Mexican Puppeteer" (1972)

∙ "Golden Days" (1973)

∙ "Letter To Lucille" (1973)

∙ "Today I Started Loving You Again" (1973)

∙ "La La La" (1973)

∙ "Something 'Bout You Baby I Like" (1974)

∙ "Ain't no Love" (1975)

∙ "I Got Your Number" (1975)

∙ "Memories Don't Leave But people Do" (1975)

∙ "Baby as You Turn Away" 1976)

∙ "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" (1977)

∙ "No One Gave me Love" (1977)

∙ "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" (1977)

∙ "Do You Take This Man" (1979)

∙ "A Boy From Nowhere" (1987)

∙ "It's Not Unusual" (1987, re-issue)

∙ "I Was Born To Be Me" (1987)

∙ "Kiss" (1988, a cover of Prince's song with The Art of Noise)

∙ "Move Closer" (1989)

∙ "Couldn't Say Goodbye" (1991)

∙ "Carrying A Torch" (1991, with Van Morrison)

∙ "Delilah" (1992, re-issue)

∙ "All You Need Is Love" (1993)

∙ "If I Only Knew" (1994)

∙ "I Wanna Get Back With You" (1994, with Tori Amos)

∙ "Burning Down The House" (1999, with The Cardigans)

∙ "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (1999, with Cerys Matthews of Catatonia)

∙ "Mama Told Me Not To Come" (2000, with Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics)

∙ "Sex Bomb" (2000, with Mousse T)

∙ "You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)" (2000, with Heather Small of M People, cover of a Gladys Knight & the Pips song)

∙ "Tom Jones International" (2002)

∙ "Black Betty" (2003)

Albums

Source: Tom Jones web site ∙ Along Came Jones (1965)

∙ A-Tom-ic Jones (1966)

∙ From the Heart (1966)

∙ Green Green Grass of Home (1967)

∙ Live at the Talk of the Town (1967)

∙ 13 Smash Hits (1967)

∙ Delilah (1968)

∙ Help Yourself (1968)

∙ This Is Tom Jones (1968)

∙ Live at the Flamingo Las Vegas (1969)

∙ Tom (1970)

∙ I Who Have Nothing (1970)

∙ She's A Lady (1971)

∙ Live at Caesar's Palace (1971)

∙ Close Up (1972)

∙ The Body and Soul of Tom Jones (1973)

∙ Tom Jones Greatest Hits (1973)

∙ Somethin' Bout You Baby I Like (1974)

∙ Memories Don't Leave Like People Do (1975)

∙ Tom Jones Sings 24 Great Standards (1976)

∙ Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow (1977)

∙ What A Night (1979)

∙ Do You Take This Man (1979)

∙ Rescue Me (1979)

∙ Darlin' (1981)

∙ Tom Jones Country (1982)

∙ Don't Let Our Dreams Die Young (1983)

∙ Matador — The Musical Life of El Cordobes (1987)

∙ It's Not Unusual — His Greatest Hits (1987)

∙ At This Moment (1989)

∙ Carrying A Torch (1991)

∙ The Lead And How To Swing It (1994)

∙ From The Vaults (1998)

∙ Reload (1999)

∙ Mr. Jones (2002)

∙ Greatest Hits (2003)

∙ The Definitive Tom Jones 1964-2002 (2003)

∙ Tom Jones and Jools Holland (2004)

Together In Concert (with John Farnham) (Australia — 2005)

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