1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 2: Well, he's one of the most iconic and influential singers 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,959 Speaker 2: of all time, sold more of one hundred million records worldwide, 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 2: knighted by the Queen, honored with countless awards, and he's 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: not stopping anytime soon. Great for us. He's going to 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 2: be touring Australia next year. We have thrilled to talk 7 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 2: to you, Tom Jones. 8 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. 9 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 2: So lovely to talk to you. We met you when 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 2: you're in Australia. Last time we had it. We had 11 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 2: a couple of drinks we had, did we We had 12 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: like a whiskey or something. There you go, charming. I 13 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 2: love your story. I've always loved you every time you 14 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 2: come to Australia. I'm always there front and center. But 15 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 2: you've also reinvented yourself a million times. You as a 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: host on the Voice has probably introduced you to a 17 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 2: whole new audience. 18 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: Quite great. It's a great thing. I love doing that shoe, 19 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: you know. I really loved being on the Voice because 20 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: I love to listen to new singers and to try 21 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: and I like to to do as much for them 22 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: as I can. You know, what they want, especially if 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: they come on my team. Then I'll I'll do as 24 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: much as I can for them and try and give 25 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: them as much advice as I can. So that's it's 26 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: it's a it's a very gratifying thing to do. I think. 27 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 2: Is it true that many years ago you entered a 28 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: talent show but lost to eventual request? 29 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 1: Yes, quite right, and she was and she wasn't very 30 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: good either. I always tell I tell him that, you know. 31 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: I said, look, you know, if you don't, if you 32 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,199 Speaker 1: don't pass this, if you don't get on the show, 33 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: you know, don't worry about it, because I lost to 34 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: a ventriloquis. And that's quite true. So as well, I 35 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: am told me on the show. He said, so, actually 36 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: you lost out to a dubby? What sort of dummy? 37 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: Did she have? Just a regular little you know, like 38 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: a little boy or on her knee, you know. So, 39 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: but you know she wasn't she was not good either, 40 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: you know if she if she'd been a great nurloquence, 41 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind it. 42 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 2: How old were you when you discovered you had a 43 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: voice that was that was better than others? 44 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: It was different, Well, when I was when I was 45 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: a child, because I come from a big family, you know, 46 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: a lot of aunties and uncles and cousins. That all 47 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: my cousins or most of them were older than me. 48 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: So they were getting married and I was, you know, 49 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: I used to sing at the weddings, so when I 50 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: when when other people would come and see me, you know, 51 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: whoever my cousin would marry her or his family would 52 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: come to the to the wedding. So I would be 53 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: singing and these people would be saying, my god, You're 54 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: going to be a star. And I thought, wow, I'm 55 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: going to be a star. Know, So it was it 56 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: was always there ever since I was a child. I 57 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: wanted to become a professional singer. How far it would 58 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: get me, I didn't know. But I thought, if I 59 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,679 Speaker 1: could just do this for a living, you know, would 60 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 1: be a wonderful thing. And so I started in pubs 61 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: and clubs, you know, once I left school, and then 62 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: I would get jobs in the daytime to make money 63 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: so I could go out and sing at night. So 64 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: it was always always there, and I would sing along 65 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: with records, you know, I would sing along with the 66 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: songs that I heard on the radio, and I thought, well, 67 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: you know, I don't hear anything that's I felt that 68 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: was any better than what I was good that I 69 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: could do, so I thought, well, I think I can 70 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: compete with these professional singers. So that was it. So 71 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: once I got a chance to go to London and 72 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: to prove it, I finally, you know, I finally did. 73 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: So thank god I did, because I love everything about 74 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: what I do for a living. Is fantastic with the recordings, 75 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: with the TV shows and live performances especially, and it 76 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: gives me a chance to travel all over the world. 77 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: So I'm still living in the dream. 78 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 2: You've done so many iconic collaborations Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, 79 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: Van Morris, and Ed Sheeran. Who is your favorite to 80 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 2: work with? 81 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: Well, it all depends on the song, you know. It 82 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: all depends on if you're going to do a duet, 83 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 1: You've got to find the right song, and if it's not, 84 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: you know, then it doesn't work out that well. But 85 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: Arita Franklin was great to sing with, you know, when 86 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 1: she did my TV show. But I was lucky enough 87 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: to have a TV show in the late sixties early 88 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: seventies when I got a lot of people on there 89 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: that I wanted to sing with, like Jerry Lee Lewis 90 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: and so to sing with him and Little Richard you 91 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: know on my TV show because they were my heroes 92 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: in the fifties, so I had them on my show. 93 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: So they were the important ones to me, the ones 94 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: that I grew up listening to and then getting a 95 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: chance the same with in. 96 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 2: The same vein. I watched you flirt outrageously with it 97 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 2: the average on a show I was watching the other day, 98 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 2: she was flirting with you. To be fair, I don't 99 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: know how much flirting was coming back. 100 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: I remember saying to me, have you had any plastic 101 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,799 Speaker 1: surgery downe there? And I said, well, maybe a little 102 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: nip and tuck, you know, here and there. And then 103 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: he said, or she said, but you're still recognizable, Tom. 104 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: That's the great thing. It was great, But he was great, buddy, Great. 105 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 2: Well, Tom, It's always a treat to catch up with you, 106 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: Tom Jones. Ages and Stages Tours on sale now from 107 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 2: Live Nation dot com dot are you. We'll be there. 108 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: Always a treat. Keep doing what you're doing. 109 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 2: See you when you get to Australia. 110 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: I will thank you very much.