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JONES, Tom   *   Hamburg, Reeperbahn 07.12.1968

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Einer, der in seiner Karriere so viel Unterwäsche vor die Füße geworfen bekam, daß er damit eine ganze

Ladenkette hätte aufmachen können, ist Tom Jones.Sex Tiger, der mit dem Testosteron in der Stimme,

startete seine Karriere 1963, als er, damals noch unter dem Namen Tommy Scott with the Senators,

anfing, lustige Beatweisen unters Volk zu bringen.Das Ding mit den Senators wollte nicht so richtig

durchstarten und so entschloß sich Tommy Scott dazu, alleine weiterzumachen. Als Clubsänger tingelte er

durch die Bars in Wales, nicht gerade eine vielversprechende Ausgangsbasis für den angestrebten Weltruhm.

Doch wie das Schicksal es will, lief gerade Gordon Mills des Weges, seines Zeichens Manager.

Dieser Mister Mills ebnete den Weg für das was dann folgen sollte. Die erste Single "Chills And Fever"

 floppte zwar gehörig, doch schon der Nachfolger "It's Not Unusual" startete direkt auf Nummer 1 der britischen

Charts durch.Da stand er nun, der kleine Junge aus Wales, inmitten der großen bunten glitzernden Welt der

Unterhaltung, und ließ den sexy swinging Ladykiller heraushängen.Anfang der Siebziger siedelte er nach

Las Vegas um und konzentrierte sich darauf, Clubshows zu spielen, statt neue Platten aufzunehmen.

In dieser Phase hatte er sich auf seichten Countrypop spezialisiert, der ihm auch eine handvoll Hits einbrachte.

1988 dann eine faustdicke Überraschung. Jones tat sich mit den electronic-Avantgardisten "Art Of Noise"

zusammen und coverte "Kiss" von Prince. Wer hätte das gedacht, ein alter Sack wie Jones wagt sich an so

ein Lied ran ? Doch es kommt noch stärker: Zum Jahrtausendwechsel verblüfft Jones mit "Reload" - 17 Duette

mit so unterschiedlichen Gästen wie den Cardigans,Robbie Williams,Mousse T und

James Dean Bradfield von den Manic Street Preachers.

Sir Tom Jones, OBE (* 7. Juni 1940 in Trefforest, Pontypridd, Wales), mit bürgerlichem Namen Thomas John Woodward, ist ein britischer Pop-Sänger.

Leben

Jones war ursprünglich Staubsauger-Vertreter, versuchte aber schon 1963 eine Karriere als Sänger mit der Beat-Band „Tommy Scott with the Senators“. In diesem Jahr nahm er insgesamt sieben Stücke in Joe Meeks Studio auf. Diese konnten aber erst 1965, nach seinem ersten großen Erfolg, veröffentlicht werden. Die Band war nicht sehr erfolgreich und so entschloss er sich zu einer Solokarriere. Als Clubsänger tingelte er zunächst durch Wales, seit 1964 durch die Londoner Bars. Dort fiel er dem Manager Gordon Mills auf, der mit ihm Platten produzierte. Die erste Single „Chills And Fever“ floppte zwar noch, doch schon der Nachfolgetitel „It's Not Unusual“ landete als Nummer 1 in den britischen Charts. Viele Hits folgten. Im Jahr 1965 sang er den Titelsong zu dem Film Was gibt’s neues, Pussy? („What's new, Pussycat?“) und zu dem James Bond Film Feuerball („Thunderball“). Auch in Deutschland war er sehr erfolgreich und 1968 mit „Delilah“ und „Help Yourself“ gleich zweimal auf Platz 1 der deutschen Hitlisten.

Anfang der 70er Jahre siedelte er nach Las Vegas über, wo er in Clubshows auftrat. In jener Zeit hatte er sich auf seichten Country-Pop spezialisiert, der ihm auch eine handvoll Hits einbrachte. Danach wurde es etwas stiller um ihn. 1987 tauchte er plötzlich wieder mit dem Song „A Boy from Nowhere“ in der englischen Hitparade auf. Und 1988 coverte Jones zusammen mit den Electronic-Avantgardisten Art Of Noise die Prince-Komposition „Kiss“. Mit Van Morrison im Duett sang er 1991 „Carrying a Torch“. 1994 moderierte er die ersten MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin und 1996 hatte er einen selbstironischen Cameo-Auftritt in dem Film Mars Attacks von Tim Burton. Im Jahr 2000 landete er den von Mousse T. geschriebenen und produzierten Hit „Sex Bomb“ und verblüffte in dem Album „Reload” 1999/2000 mit einer abwechslungsreichen Mischung von Duetten, so mit Nina Persson von den Cardigans, Robbie Williams, den Stereophonics oder den Manic Street Preachers. Die Coverversion des Talking-Heads-Titels „Burning down the House“ zusammen mit Nina Persson wurde international erfolgreich und erreichte Platz 10 in den englischen Charts.

Im Jahr 2003 wurde Tom Jones in die „Club-Carriere-Enzyklopädie des Erfolges“ aufgenommen. 2005 wurde Jones von Queen Elisabeth II. zum Knights Bachelor geschlagen. Durch seine Nobilitierung heißt er jetzt Sir Thomas.

Sexappeal

Besonders den weiblichen Fans hatte es seine sonore, soulige, schmuseweiche Stimme und sein Sexappeal angetan. Jones trug seine Hemden stets mindestens einen Knopf zu weit geöffnet und zeigte sein üppiges Brusthaar. Es hieß, er habe sich sogar die Innentaschen seiner Hosen entfernen lassen, damit er diese noch enganliegender tragen könne. Das Ergebnis waren kreischende Mädchen, die ihn während seiner Konzerte mit Wäschestücken bewarfen.

Diskografie

Bekannte Titel

  • "It's Not Unusual" (1965)
  • "What's New Pussycat" (1965)
  • "Thunderball" (1965)
  • "Green, Green Grass of Home" (1966/67)
  • "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (1967)
  • "Help Yourself" (1968)
  • "Delilah" (1968)
  • "Love Me Tonight" (1969)
  • "Daughter of Darkness" (1970)
  • "She's A Lady" (1971)
  • "A Boy From Nowhere" (1987)
  • "Kiss" (1988)
  • "Burning Down The House" (1999/2000)
  • "Sex Bomb" (2000)
  • "Stoned In Love" (2006)

Trivia

  • Den Spitznamen "The Tiger" erhielt er bereits bei seinen ersten Auftritten als Sänger der Band "Tommy Scott & The Senators", weil er auf der Bühne wild herumtigerte. Dank seiner Bühnenshow nannten ihn seine Fans bereits 1962 Tiger Tom the Twisting Vocalist.
  • Tom ist ein Bariton, was ihn aber nicht davon abhält, mit seiner Stimme höhere Tonlagen zu erreichen als die meisten Tenöre. Seine Stimme reicht vom Dis (über dem Contra-C) über fast drei Oktaven bis hin zum D oberhalb des doppelt gestrichenen C.
  • Tom Jones war entgegen vielen Meinungen nie Bergarbeiter, da dies aufgrund einer Tuberkulose-Erkrankung als Kind gar nicht möglich war.

Singles

It's Not Unusual (1.)
UK: 1 - 1965 – 14 Wo.
Once upon a Time
UK: 32 - 1965 – 4 Wo.
With These Hands
UK: 13 - 1965 – 11 Wo.
What's New Pussycat?
UK: 11 - 1965 – 10 Wo.
Thunderball
UK: 35 - 1966 – 4 Wo.
Once There Was a Time/
Not Responsible
UK: 18 - 1966 – 9 Wo.
This And That
UK: 44 - 1966 – 3 Wo.
(The) Green Green Grass of Home
DE: 6 - 1967 – 22 Wo.
UK: 1 - 1966 – 22 Wo.
Detroit City
DE: 35 - 1967 – 5 Wo.
UK: 8 - 1967 – 10 Wo.
Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings
DE: 38 - 1967 – 2 Wo.
UK: 7 - 1967 – 15 Wo.
I'll Never Fall in Love Again
DE: 31 - 1967 – 5 Wo.
UK: 2 - 1967 – 15 Wo.
I'm Coming Home
DE: 39 - 1968 – 4 Wo.
UK: 2 - 1967 – 16 Wo.
Delilah
DE: 1 - 1968 – 30 Wo.
UK: 2 - 1968 – 17 Wo.
Help Yourself
DE: 1 - 1968 – 24 Wo.
UK: 5 - 1968 – 26 Wo.
A Minute of Your Time
DE: 9 - 1968 – 11 Wo.
UK: 14 - 1968 – 15 Wo.
Love Me Tonight
DE: 11 - 1969 – 11 Wo.
UK: 9 - 1969 – 12 Wo.
Without Love (There Is Nothing)
UK: 10 - 1969 – 10 Wo.
Daughter of Darkness
DE: 15 - 1970 – 10 Wo.
UK: 5 - 1970 – 13 Wo.
I (Who Have Nothing)
UK: 16 - 1970 – 8 Wo.
She's a Lady
DE: 7 - 1971 – 17 Wo.
UK: 13 - 1971 – 8 Wo.
Puppet Man
DE: 36 - 1971 – 5 Wo.
Till
DE: 40 - 1971 – 2 Wo.
UK: 2 - 1971 – 17 Wo.
(The) Young New Mexican Puppeteer
DE: 35 - 1972 – 3 Wo.
UK: 6 - 1972 – 11 Wo.
Letter to Lucille
DE: 49 - 1973 – 1 Wo.
UK: 31 - 1973 – 5 Wo.
Something 'bout You Baby I Like
UK: 36 - 1974 – 3 Wo.
Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
UK: 40 - 1977 – 1 Wo.
A Boy from Nowhere
UK: 2 - 1987 – 10 Wo.
It's Not Unusual (2.)
UK: 17 - 1987 – 6 Wo.
Kiss (Art of Noise & Tom Jones)
DE: 16 - 1988 – 12 Wo.
UK: 5 - 1988 – 5 Wo.
All You Need Is Love
UK: 19 - 1993 – 2 Wo.
If I Only Knew
DE: 82 - 1995 – 7 Wo.
UK: 11 - 1994 – 5 Wo.
Burning Down the House
(Tom Jones & Cardigans)
DE: 27 - 1999 – 14 Wo.
UK: 7 - 1999 – 7 Wo.
Baby, It's Cold Outside (Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews)
UK: 17 - 1999 – 7 Wo.
Mama Told Me Not To Come
(Tom Jones & Stereophonics)
DE: 73 - 2000 – 8 Wo.
UK: 4 - 2000 – 7 Wo.
Sex Bomb (Tom Jones &
Mousse T.)
DE: 3 - 2000 – 15 Wo.
UK: 3 - 2000 – 9 Wo.
You Need Love Like I Do
(Tom Jones & Heather Small)
DE: 100 - 2000 – 1 Wo.
UK: 24 - 2000 – 3 Wo.
Tom Jones International
UK: 31 - 2002 – 2 Wo.
Black Betty/I Who Have Nothing
DE: 49 - 2003 – 6 Wo.
UK: 50 - 2003 – 2 Wo.
Stoned in Love (Chicane &
Tom Jones)
UK: 7 - 2006 – 13 Wo.

Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh pop music singer particularly noted for his powerful voice. He was born in Treforest, Pontypridd, near Cardiff in South Wales, United Kingdom.

usical career

Tom Jones rose to fame in the mid-1960s, with an exuberant live act that included wearing tight breeches and billowing shirts, in an Edwardian style popular among his peers at the time. He was known for his overt sexuality, before this was as common as it has become in subsequent years.

In 1963 he became the frontman for Tommy Scott and The Senators, a local beat group. Clad in black leather, he soon gained a reputation in the South Wales area of the United Kingdom, although the Senators were still unknown in London.

In 1964 they laid down seven tracks with maverick Telstar producer Joe Meek, and took them to various labels in an attempt to get a record deal, with no success. The plan was to release a single, Lonely Joe / I Was A Fool, but the ever-flighty Meek refused to release the tapes. Only after It's Not Unusual became a massive hit, Meek was able to sell the tapes to Tower (USA) and Columbia (UK). The group returned to South Wales and continued to play gigs at dance halls and working men's clubs. One night, at the Top Hat in Cwmtillery, Jones was spotted by Gordon Mills, a London-based manager originally from South Wales. Mills became Jones' manager, and took the young singer to London. He also renamed him Tom Jones, an ingenious moniker that not only linked the singer to the image of the title character - a good-looking, low-born stud - portrayed in Tony Richardson's film of Fielding's "Tom Jones", which was a huge contemporary hit, but also subtly emphasized his nationality. Gordon Mills gave many rock stars their stage names, among them Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey). The Senators became the Playboys, and later still the Squires. It was the beginning of the second phase in Jones' career.

Record companies were finding his style and delivery to be too abrasive and raw. Jones' vocals were considered to be too raucous, and he moved like Elvis. But eventually, Decca rekindled their early interest, and Jones recorded his first single, Chills And Fever in late 1964.

The single didn't chart, but the follow-up, It's Not Unusual, (co-written by Les Reed), was an instant hit, released in early 1965. Initially, the BBC refused to play it, but an offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline, picked it up. Its orchestrated arrangement, coupled with Jones' energetic delivery, proved infectious, and by March 1 the song reached number one in the UK and the top ten in America. In the same year, Jones sang the theme song to the James Bond film Thunderball. Jones was awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Artist for 1965. In 1966 Jones' popularity began to slip somewhat, causing Mills to redesign the singer's image into a more respectable, mature, tuxedoed crooner.

Inspired by long-time influence Jerry Lee Lewis' country version, Jones released his most successful single ever, Green Green Grass of Home (written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr. in 1965), and began to sing material that appealed to a broad audience, as well as a string of hit singles and albums including What's New Pussycat?, Help Yourself and Delilah. The strategy worked, as he returned to the top of the charts in the UK and began hitting the Top 40 again in the U.S.

In 1967 he performed for the first time in Las Vegas, at the Flamingo. In 1968, starting at New York's Copacabana night club, women would swoon and scream, and some would throw their knickers on stage. Soon after, he began to play Las Vegas and began recording less, choosing to concentrate on his lucrative club performances. At Caesar's Palace his shows were traditionally a knicker-hurling frenzy of raw sexual tension and good-time entertainment. There, they started throwing hotel room keys. Jones and Elvis Presley became good friends, spending time together in Las Vegas. They had a friendship that endured until Presley's death in 1977.

Jones had an internationally successful television variety show from 1969-1971 titled This Is Tom Jones. This hit TV show was aired by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC-TV) in America and ITV in the UK. The 1970s saw Jones' popularity leveling off, but the hits kept coming: Daughter Of Darkness, She's A Lady, Till and The New Mexican Puppeteer were all hits in the UK. On July 29, 1986, Gordon Mills, Jones' long-time manager, died of cancer. Jones' son Mark became the singer's manager. In April 1987, the singer re-entered the singles chart with the hit A Boy From Nowhere, which got him back into the public eye. A few months later he performed a version of Prince's Kiss, and recorded it with The Art of Noise, and it was an instant hit. In 1993 he signed to Interscope Records, releasing the album The Lead And How To Swing It, and his profile was raised with a younger audience by a powerful performance at the Glastonbury Festival. In 1998 he performed a medley of songs from the film The Full Monty with Robbie Williams at the BRIT Awards. That same year, Space and Cerys Matthews released The Ballad Of Tom Jones.

In 1999 he recorded the blockbuster album Reload, a collection of duets with some of the year's brightest stars, which brought him back into the limelight. On new year's eve to ring in 2000, President Bill Clinton invited him to perform at the Millennium celebrations in Washington. Throughout that year, Jones garnered several honors for his work, including a BRIT Award for Best Male. In 2001 he toured throughout the Middle East and Europe. In subsequent years, he recorded albums in collaboration with artists such as Wyclef Jean and Jools Holland.

In celebration of his 65th birthday on 28 May 2005, Jones returned to his homeland to perform a spectacular concert in Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd. This was his first performance in Pontypridd since 1964.

His early hits include:

Jones' recording career slumped on the pop charts during the 1970s and '80s, although he placed 16 singles on the Billboard Country Music charts between 1976 and 1985, the biggest of which was "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" (# 1 Country, # 15 pop) in 1977, and his touring continued successfully. When his son Mark became his manager in 1987, his musical style was taken in a different direction. His recording career was revived with his first major hit single in over a decade, A Boy From Nowhere, taken from the musical Matador. In 1988 he collaborated with The Art of Noise to record Prince's popular song Kiss. Following this, he started to record in collaboration with a younger generation of musicians:

His Reload album, released in 2000, became the biggest hit of his career. An album of cover versions recorded as duets with contemporary artists, using their record producers, and utilizing their recording methods, it reached number one in the United Kingdom, and sold over 4 million copies worldwide.[3] In 2002, he released the album Mr. Jones, which was produced by Wyclef Jean and included the singles Tom Jones International and Black Betty. In 2003, he was honored with a BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2004, his Sex Bomb single became a major US club hit.

For his contribution to the recording industry, Tom Jones has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Blvd.

In 2005 the album Together In Concert, was recorded live with John Farnham and his band.

He has collaborated with Chicane for Stoned in Love, a dance track that was released 24 April 2006. It entered at number eight in the UK charts the following Sunday.

The singer was awarded an OBE in 1999 and a Knight Bachelor in the 2006 New Years Honours list for his services to music, and was subsequently knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London on 29 March 2006.

Although his manager and public relations staff has attempted to change his sex-bomb image and neutralize the knicker-throwing fans, to the delight of his audiences Jones has never felt the need to tone down his behavior in the shows. Tom Jones has remained highly respected by other singers and continues to attract audiences of all ages. As of 2008, Jones continues to tour and record. A major portion of the year he regularly performs his show at the MGM Grand hotel, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA, near Las Vegas. His show at the MGM is performed in a cabaret style theater. Other venues on his yearly schedule include numerous shows at Atlantic City, NJ and appearances in the USA, United Kingdom and Canada. Jones has recently made long awaited performances in South America.

On July 1, 2007, Jones was one of the invited artists who performed at Wembley Stadium at the Concert for Diana, joined on stage by guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith and British soul singer Joss Stone. He sang the British National Anthem before Ricky Hatton's fight against Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas on December 8, 2007.

The BBC reported in 2005 that Jones had amassed a fortune of 175 million pounds.

Personal life

The son of coal miner Thomas Woodward (died 5 October 1981), and Freda Jones (died 7 February 2003, of cancer), Jones began singing at an early age. He'd regularly sing at family gatherings, weddings and also sang in his school choir. He was struck down by tuberculosis and bedridden for almost a year. It was a critical time for him, but he could do little else but listen to music and draw. At the age of sixteen, Jones married Linda Trenchard on March 2, 1957 and had a son named Mark, long before becoming a pop idol. Jones quit school with no qualifications and took a variety of jobs including a builder's laborer and a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman.

In 1974, Jones moved to the United States, buying the mansion formerly belonging to Dean Martin in Bel-Air, Los Angeles. Despite publicized infidelities, including an affair with the dethroned Miss World of 1973, USA's Marjorie Wallace, and a one night stand with Cassandra Peterson a.k.a. Elvira, in which he claimed her virginity, he has remained married to his wife Linda for 50 years. One of his dalliances, a weekend with 24-year-old U.S. model Katherine Berkery in a suite at New York's Ritz Carlton Hotel, produced a love child, Jonathan Berkery, born June 27, 1988. Jonathan has followed in the footsteps of his father in the music industry, regardless of Jones refusal to recognize him as his son. Berkery has been singing and recording music for several years with the intention of becoming a popular music artist such as his father. Jones and his wife have two grandchildren, Emma and Alexander Woodward.

Jones also owns a ten acre small holding in the Welsh Valleys which he uses when in Wales, and continues to tour extensively.

Discography

For a detailed discography, see: Tom Jones discography

Filmography

A fantasy story about the London Bridge being brought to America
A TV musical celebrating the 200th anniversary of London's most renowned Oxford Street

Bibliography

 References

  1. ^ "Tom Jones leads New Year Honours", BBC News, 2005-12-31. Retrieved on 2008-01-23. 
  2. ^ "Financier heads Welsh rich list", BBC News, 2005-4-2. Retrieved on 2008-2-12. 

 

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