When was tom jones born

So as long as it's there I wanna get up There's only one Sir Tom Jones! The current lockdown means his birthday celebrations might be limited, but Sir Tom has experienced self-isolation before, having been kept at home in a single room for two years after his TB diagnosis as a child.

Wife of singer Sir Tom Jones dies. Tom Jones on love, life and Elvis. Sir Tom's Musical Years. It wasn't unusual in the valleys towns of South Wales. But the boy was clearly something special: he'd regularly sing at family gatherings, weddings and his mother's Women's Guild meetings. He also sang in his school choir, although it's said he was once told off for drowning out the rest of them as they sang Men Of Harlech in school assembly.

By the late s Tom had become entranced by the new rock 'n' roll sounds coming from the radio. In his teens he was becoming something of a tearaway, missing school, drinking and chasing girls.

Tom began courting Melinda Trenchard, a local Catholic girl known as Linda. Soon after, however, he was struck down by tuberculosis and bed-ridden for almost a year.

It was a critical time for him, but he could do little else but listen to music and draw. At 16 Tom left school. He married Linda the following year, one month before their son Mark was born. At the time, Tom was working nights in a paper mill, a situation which paid fairly well but was getting in the way of his singing. Something had to give. He gave up working at the mill. In he became the frontman for Tommy Scott and the Senators, a local beat group whose former singer Tommy Redman preferred singing ballads.

Sir Tom Jones is one of the world's most popular entertainers but how old is he, is he married, does he have children and what is his real name? But where is Sir Tom Jones from and how big is his family? Tom Jones ' birth name is Thomas John Woodward.

His parents were Thomas Woodward , a coal miner, and Freda Jones He began singing at an early age, at family gatherings, weddings and in his school choir. At 12, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and spent "two years in bed recovering". In March , Sir Tom Jones married his high school girlfriend, Linda Trenchard, when they were expecting a child together, both aged Tom Jones has said that he was with up to groupies a year at the height of his fame.