Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck's feud – bitter fallout and attempts to make up
dailystar.co.ukSir Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck have long been at loggerheads – for more than 25 years in fact – but what really caused the feud and what's gone on since?
Both successful singers, Tom, 82, and Englebert, 86, were quite good friends prior to their careers starting and their subsequent feud.The duo were both involved with the same record label – MAM – and in 1965 Englebert teamed up with Gordon Mills, his former roommate who was the manager of Sir Tom Jones at the time.While Welsh singer Tom first shot to fame when Gordon got Jones a recording contract with Decca and subsequently released his debut single Chills and Fever in 1964.
Gordon and Tom then teamed up to create record label MAM, which signed Englebert before a bitter break up.The pair first fell out when Englebert left the MAM Record label in the 1970s which was founded by Jones and Gordon, and managed both artists.Wales Online have previously reported that the pair "grew resentful of each other’s success and developed a simmering rivalry".It has also been widely reported that the pair have long been feuding over who is the most successful singer.Although the pair are said to have feuded over who was more successful, in 2015 it emerged that they in fact argued over a girl.Seven years ago Californian entrepreneur Charlotte Laws, who had a three-year affair with Jones from 1979, said she met Tom's arch nemesis when he was performing in Las Vegas.Back in 2015 she explained: "I’d been with Tom a year or two when I happened to be walking through the MGM and I was approached by members of Enge’s entourage.
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