SATURDAY marked five years since Sir Tom Jones lost Linda, his wife of 59 years – and it’s a loss that has had a huge influence on his forthcoming 42nd album Surrounded By Time. “This is the first album I’ve done since she passed away,” Jones, 80, tells me over Zoom from the London home he moved to after Linda died of lung cancer in 2016. “It’s the first one without her so it’s very important to me.” The pair married in 1957 when they were both 16.
A month later they had their only child, Mark (Woodward), who is now his dad’s manager and co-produced the new album with Paul McCartney and Kings Of Leon producer Ethan Johns, who has worked on Jones’ last three records.
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