Tom Jones - the Life (27 page)

Eggar, Robin.
Tom Jones: The Biography
, Headline, 2000

Ellis, Lucy and Bryony Sutherland.
Tom Jones Close Up
, Omnibus Press, 2000

Hildreth, Stafford and David Gritten.
Tom Jones: The Biography
, Pan, 2000

Hopkins, Vernon.
Tom Jones: Just Help Yourself
, Iponymous, 2012

Humperdinck, Engelbert.
Engelbert: What’s in a Name?
, Virgin, 2012

Jones, Peter.
Tom Jones: Biography of a Great Star
, Arthur Barker, 1970

Love, Darlene.
My Name Is Love
, William Morrow, 2013

Macfarlane, Colin.
Tom Jones: The Boy from Nowhere
, W. H. Allen, 1988

Mitchell, Leanne.
Finding My Voice
, BBC Books, 2013

Nash, Alanna.
Elvis and the Memphis Mafia
, Aurum Press, 2005

Powell, Don.
Pontypridd at War 1939–45
, Merton Priory Press, 1999

Roberts, Chris.
Tom Jones: A Life in Pictures
, Carlton, 2013

Savile, Jimmy.
Love Is an Uphill Thing
, Coronet, 1976

Schwartz, Bert.
Tom Jones
, Grosset & Dunlap, 1969

West, Sonny.
Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business
, Triumph, 2007

Wilson, Mary.
Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme
, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987

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Aaland Hotel, Bloomsbury 78

ABC cinema ban (P. J. Proby) 104

ABC network 146, 155, 156

Aberfan disaster 124

AC/DC 71

Academy Award nomination 113

Aero Zip factory 47

AFL Grand Final, Melbourne 275

Agnes Browne
229

‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ 156

‘Ain’t That a Lot of Love’ 237

Ali, Muhammad 195

‘All I Get from You Are Heartaches’ 128

All Saints 235

Allen, Lily 256

Allen, Vicky 245

Allen, Woody 113

Along Came Jones
111–12

Altham, Keith 104

American Green Card 183

American Music Awards (1995) 218

Amos, Tori 217

‘Angels’ 222

Animals, The 107, 239

Anka, Paul 161

‘Apache’ 53, 55

Apollo Theater, Harlem 116

Apple Studios, London 261

Archell, Don 204, 276

‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’ 236

Art of Noise, The 206–7, 221

Ashman, Charlie 42

Asia 71

Associated Television (ATV) 146

Atlantic City 227

ATV 146

Audience with Tom Jones, An
240

Babalola, Tunde 256

‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ 239

Bacharach, Burt 112–13, 115, 157, 247

Back to Black
256

Bad Company 213

Bag o’ Nails (pub), West End 120

Bal Paree, Munich 135

‘The Ballad of Tom Jones’ 234, 235

Ballard, Florence 136

‘Bama Lama Bama Loo’ 60

Bambi Awards 135

Barker, Sally 274

Barratt, Alan 45, 46, 47, 51

Barrowman, John 211

Barry Island 22, 68

‘(Barry) Islands in the Stream’ 258

Basie, Count 251

Bassey, Shirley 112, 243

‘The Battle of the Sex Gods’ 213

BBC 87, 100, 167, 204, 212, 214, 265

Children in Need (1997) 220

Hootenanny (1998) 250

Music Awards 285

Online 240, 250

Radio 20, 95

Wales 64

Beat City Club, Oxford Street 89

Beat Room, The
(BBC2 show) 91

Beatles, The 70, 73, 83, 99, 101, 107, 108, 109, 125, 159, 179, 205, 243, 263

on
Ed Sullivan Show
109

NME
concert (1965) 107

Beazer, Elias 46

Beazer, Gill 45, 46–52, 63

Bedwas Working Men’s Club (the Green Fly), Caerphilly 63, 69, 70, 283

Begley, Andrea 267

Bel Air mansion, Los Angeles 183–4, 194, 195

Believe It or Not
144

Bennett, Johnny 81, 82

Benton, Brook 62

Berkery, Jonathan 210, 282

Berkery, Katherine 208–10

Best, George 169

Big Bill Broonzy 20

Billboard
charts 17, 75, 111, 161, 207

Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas 73, 83

Black, Cilla 96, 104, 105, 107

‘Black Betty’ 249

‘Black, Brown and White’ 20

Blackboard Jungle
29

Blackie (dog) 140

Blackler, Brian 9, 22, 28, 31, 38, 40, 225, 279

Blackler, Cliff 11

Blackler, John 42

Blethyn, Brenda (Nina) 271

Blinkhorn, Albert 82–3

Blossoms, The 179, 180

Blue Hawaii
189

‘Blue Suede Shoes’ 42, 54, 175

Bodyguard, The
268

Bond, James 95, 112, 122, 185

Bono 220, 256

Boone, Daniel 97

Boston Globe
215, 217

Bowie, David 220, 244

‘A Boy from Nowhere’ 205, 245–6, 252

BPI Awards 243

Bradfield, James Dean 238, 239

Branson, Richard 247–8

Brit Awards

1982 243–4

1998 222–3, 234

2003 249–50

Britain’s Got Talent
43

Brithweunydd Road, Trealaw 201

British Coated Board and Paper Mills 37

British Harmonica Championship, Royal Albert Hall 83

British Legion, Rhydyfelin 40, 49

Broccoli, Cubby 185

Brown, Campbell 275

Brown, Ian 244

Brown, James 112

Brydon, Rob 258, 273, 277

Bucket of Blood 40, 49, 90, 164

see also
British Legion, Rhydyfelin

Buckingham Palace, Diamond Jubilee concert 273, 286

Burke, Solomon 62

‘Burning Down the House’ 236, 240

‘Burning Hell’ 262–3, 282

Burton, Richard 276

Burton, Tim 218

Burvale Cemetery, Hersham 200

Cable, Stuart 238

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas 164, 166, 171, 176, 178, 181

Cage, Nicolas 228

Campden Hill Towers (flat) 84, 89, 95

‘Can’t Get Enough’ 213

Cardiff International Arena 244

Cardigans, The 236, 241

Carrying a Torch
212

‘Carrying a Torch’ 211–12

Carter, Mel 114

Cartwright, Jim 270, 271

Cartwright, Tony 120, 129

Cash, Johnny 16, 157

Cassie (dog) 231, 233

Catatonia 234, 240

Cecil Cinema, Treforest 8, 13, 279

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 199

Celtic Manor Hotel, nr Newport 196

Central Guest House, Treforest 279

Central Hotel, Pontypridd 46, 48

Central Secondary Modern School, Treforest 15, 189, 279, 280

Central Television 214

Charles, Ray 43, 50, 53, 62, 147, 156, 274

‘Chattanooga Choo Choo’ 83

Checker, Chubby 62

Cher 227

Chicago blues 20

Chicago Sun-Times
202

Chicago Theatre 208

Chieftains, The 218

‘Chills and Fever’ 76, 91, 94, 250

Church Village 45

Clapton, Eric 20

Cleaves, Johnny 69

Cliff Terrace, Treforest 24, 36, 60, 62, 100, 142

Clinton, Bill 245

Clydesdale Road, Notting Hill 88

Cocker, Joe 215, 221

Cockney Rebel 222

Cohen, Leonard 272

Collins, Jackie 105, 187

Collins, Joan 105, 187

Collins, Joe 105

Columbia label 108

Comic Relief 213, 214, 258

Commonwealth Games 253

Connery, Sean 185

Connors, Jimmy 172

Cooper, Dai 87, 88

Copa De Oro Road, Los Angeles 228

Copacabana (Copa) club, New York 129–32

Cosby, Bill 204

Country
194

Country Club
(radio show) 95

Country Songs for City Folk
122–3

County Cinema, Pontypridd 24, 279

Crewe, Marion 51

Crews, Harry 186

Cromwellian Club 120, 122

Crosby, Bing 16

Croydon ABC 104

Curtis, Tony 31

Cwm Colliery, Beddau 4–5

Cwm Welfare Club, Beddau 63

Daily Express
30, 176

Daily Mirror
102, 139, 150

Daily Telegraph
212, 260

Dangerous
217

Daniels, Billy 22

‘Danny Boy’ 130, 261

‘Daughter of Darkness’ 158

Dave Clark Five 110

David, Hal 112, 113, 157

Davies, Keith 40–1, 53, 55, 57, 59, 60, 64, 71–2, 81, 85, 87

Davies, Ken 36

Davies, Ray 240

Davis, Sammy, Jr 131, 157

De Avalons, The 43

De Niro, Robert 208

Decca 75, 76, 78, 90, 98–9, 151, 189, 194

Decca Studios, West Hampstead 98, 129, 158

Deer Lake, Pennsylvania 195

Definitive Tom Jones, The
250

Delilah
189, 243

‘Delilah’ 17, 143–4, 205, 222, 237, 249, 259, 273, 285

Dene, Terry 84

Des Lane, The Penny Whistle Man 97

Desert Island Discs
20, 263, 276

‘Detroit City’ 128

DeVito, Danny 228

‘Didn’t It Rain’ 284

Disc
(magazine) 137

Discs A GoGo
54

Dixon, Willie 251

Dr Dre 217

‘Doctor Jones’ 235

Dodd, Ken 103

Dom Pérignon (champagne) 134, 141, 177

Donald Peers Presents
(BBC Wales) 64

Donegan, Lonnie 128

Donovan, Jason 101

Dorsey, Gerry 83–4, 85

see also
Humperdinck, Engelbert

Dorsey, Pat
see
Healy, Pat

Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme
(Wilson) 135

Dudley, Anne 206, 221

Duplessis, Jerry 247

Dylan, Bob 262, 272

Earls Court, London 222, 244, 249, 285

Easy Listening Chart (US) 158

Ed Sullivan Show, The
109, 110–11, 114, 132

Eddy, Duane 206

Eden, Barbara 156

Edinburgh castle 245

Edwin (uncle) 7, 8

Eggar, Robin 130, 141

Elizabeth II, Queen

coronation 21

Diamond Jubilee concert 273, 286

Silver Jubilee 243

Tom’s knighthood 253

Tom’s OBE 241

Ellis, Chris 69, 77, 89, 120, 122, 130, 137, 138, 153, 168, 182, 190

Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire 152

Elton, Ben 244

EMF 214, 215, 259

EMI 194, 260

Empress Ballroom, Abercynon 62

‘End of the Road’ 251

Epstein, Brian 73

Erasure 214

Eric Burdon and The Animals 239

Esposito, Joe 174

‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love’ 107

‘Evil’ 284

Faith, Adam 58, 95, 97

Faith, Paloma 285

fans 61, 105–6, 139, 163, 190, 227, 245

super-fans 192–3, 204

Fats Domino 166

Felder, Raoul 209

‘Female of the Species’ 234

Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Denver 225

Fifth Dimension, The 149

Finding My Voice
(Mitchell) 268

Finney, Albert 90

Fitzgerald, Ella 131, 133, 157, 161

Flack, Roberta 182

Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas 132–3, 135, 136, 175

Ford, Eric 97

Ford, John 16

Forest Lawn Memorial Park, nr Bel Air 195

Fourmost, The 104

Frankie Goes To Hollywood 217

Franklin, Aretha 157

Franzese, Sonny 131

Freddie Feys (record shop), Pontypridd 42, 91, 101

Freeman, Alan 100

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The
216

From Here to Eternity
186

Fugees, The 246–7

Full Monty, The
221, 222

Fury, Billy 58

Future Cut 256

Gabriel, Peter 262

‘Games People Play’ 150

Gaye, Marvin 131

Gee, Mickey 87

General Strike (1926) 5

George, Uncle 7, 50, 100, 124

‘Ghost Riders in the Sky’ 17, 26, 75

G.I. Blues
148

Gibson, Mel 154

Gill, Andy 273

Gingers nightclub, Pontypridd 165

Givens, Robin 209

Glastonbury, John 70–1, 74, 149–50

see also
Myron and Byron

Glastonbury Festival

1992 213–14

2009 259

Glitter, Gary 205

Glover, Martin 217

Glyndwr Avenue, Rhydyfelin 57, 72

‘God Only Knows’ 285–6

Godfrey, Raymond 70–1, 74, 149–50

see also
Myron and Byron

‘Good Golly, Miss Molly’ 61

Gospel Singer, The
186

Grade, Lew 145–7, 161–2

Grammy Awards

1966 (Tom Jones) 141

1986 (The Art of Noise) 207

Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl 73

‘Great Balls of Fire’ 56

Green Fly
see
Bedwas Working Men’s Club

Green, Green Grass of Home
17, 128

‘Green, Green Grass of Home’ 123–4, 136, 191, 202, 220, 233, 249, 252, 259

duets 175, 237

Elvis on hearing 124–5

Elvis’ version of 184

Jerry Lee Lewis on hearing 124

Greenberg, Gerry 63–4, 66, 70, 89, 91, 100, 160

Greene, Lisa 255

Greenfield, Lloyd 110, 133, 173, 193, 204, 226, 232

Griffith, Hugh 98

Grosvenor House Hotel, London 263

Guardian
244, 248, 255, 259

‘Guitar Man’ 190

Gut Records 235, 244

Haley, Bill 29

Hancock, Tony 146

Harris, Richard 276

Harrison, George 100, 139

Harry Cipriani (restaurant), New York 227–8

Hatchetts (club), Piccadilly 166–7

Hattenstone, Simon 255

‘Have I the Right’ 77

Hawaii 175

‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ 220

Healy, Pat 85

‘Heaven Help Us All’ 215

Heinz (of The Tornados) 75, 77

‘Hello Young Lovers’ 130

Hendrix, Jimi 97, 136

Henry, Lenny 213

Herald
248

‘High School Confidential’ 61

Hilton Hotel, London 173, 276–7

Hilton Hotel, Rhode Island 193

Hit Factory studios, Manhattan 219

‘The Hitter’ 257

‘Holding Back the Years’ 237

Holland, Jools 250–1, 266

Holly, Buddy 54

Holmes, Guy 235

Honeycombs, The 77

Hooker, John Lee 262

Hope, Bob 157, 214

Hopkins, Sir Anthony 154

Hopkins, Vernon 33, 44, 60, 62, 63, 68–9, 86, 92, 102, 120, 259

and renaming of Tom 58–9

in The Senators 53, 55, 56–9, 64, 66, 67–8, 71, 72, 73, 87

in The Squires 117, 150, 151

Horn, Trevor 217, 218

Hospital Club, Covent Garden 267

‘Hound Dog’ 175

Houston, Whitney 268

Howlin’ Wolf 284

Hucknall, Mick 237

Humperdinck, Engelbert 83–84, 139, 160,161, 166, 167, 178, 190, 199

Huston, Anjelica 229

Hutchence, Michael 237

Hutchins, Chris

exposé 190

on Mark Woodward 168

on Tom 115–16, 117, 121, 140, 142, 151, 164

as Tom’s publicist 109, 125–6, 127, 132, 137–8, 143, 167, 170–1, 173, 174, 189

‘I Apologise’ 105

‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ 153