Olly Murs said to me on The Voice, ‘You knew Solomon Burke, right?’, I said, ‘Yeah, and my favourite Solomon Burke song has always been ‘Cry To Me’.’ “And so I sang it.
Well, that was on Saturday night and apparently we went viral with it. “So now I’m thinking, ‘After all these years of kicking this song around, it’s finally getting the recognition it deserves’.”In time for his 82nd birthday, Sir Tom also shared a series of photographs of himself alongside the Queen for her 70th anniversary on the throne.
The legendary singer praised the monarch’s record-breaking reign with a relevant tribute in view of his 444,000 Instagram followers.He penned: “Always inspiring, the magnificent Queen Elizabeth II.”Tom also added the hashtag “#PlatinumJubilee”.The selection of photos included the hitmaker and the Queen shaking hands at the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium in 1968.Another captured the moment Tom was knighted in Buckingham Palace in 2006.And finally, Tom included a snap of himself standing on the stage with the Queen and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall at the Diamond Jubilee concert back in 2012.Tom’s latest Album, Surrounded By Time, was released in May 2021.
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