“You couldn’t make up a life story as big as this” says author Sean Smith of his subject, Tom Jones. It was published ahead of the indomitable Tom Jones’ 75th birthday in June and provides an entertaining and informative look at a long and successful career. Sean Smith has gone back to the beginning – in South Wales, to talk to the people who knew Tom Jones, making this a very personal and revealing life story. ~ Sue Baker
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Now approaching his 75th birthday, Tom Jones' life has been an unforgettable rollercoaster ride. From starting out in a little Welsh mining town where he married his sweetheart at just 16, who could have known that seven years later he would go on to become a major musical hit that would propel him to Bel Air? Through intimate interviews, Smith uncovers all this and more, including the years Tom spent as little more than a Vegas lounge singer, before being rediscovered in the late '80s and becoming a maestro on the music scene once again.
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Now approaching his 75th birthday, Tom Jones' life has been an unforgettable rollercoaster ride. From starting out in a little Welsh mining town where he married his sweetheart at just 16, who could have known that seven years later he would go on to become a major musical hit that would propel him to Bel Air?
Tom Jones - The Life features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
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Tom Jones - The Life was written by Sean Smith and published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Tom Jones - The Life has 320 pages
