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.

Mills became Tom's manager, and took the young singer to London. He also renamed him Tom Jones (there was another Tommy Scott singing in London). The Senators became the Playboys, and later still ...

From then he went on to Caesar's Palace, where Tom's shows were traditionally a knicker-hurling frenzy of raw sexual tension and good-time entertainment. The Tom Jones ... cost the singer $1 ...

undertook a massive tour of Europe and was presented with a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. 2004 saw the release of a collaboration with Jools Holland. The album Tom Jones ...

He first heard the song on a Jerry Lee Lewis album, Country Songs For City Folks, but the song was interpreted by many to refer to Jones' native Wales. The following year, 1967, Tom performed for ...