Tom Jones - the Life (32 page)

One of the two most significant liaisons Tom has had outside his marriage was with Mary Wilson of The Supremes, pictured with him at a backstage party after he opened at Caesars Palace in April 1971. (
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The other was with Miss World, Marjorie Wallace, with whom he enjoyed a famous kiss in Barbados in February 1974. (
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The whole world knew that Tom and Marji were more than chest good friends. (
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Tom was worried about the well-being of Marjorie Wallace when he celebrated his thirty-fourth birthday in 1974. Celebrity friends Joan Rivers, Sonny Bono, Dionne Warwick, Debbie Reynolds and Liberace helped to cheer him up. (
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When a fan kissed Tom Jones, she got her money’s worth. This woman received a smacker at a Paris concert in 1979 that she would remember for the rest of her life. (
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Not every couple gets to have Tom Jones sing at their wedding. His son Mark and Mark’s new wife Donna were the lucky bride and groom when they married in March 1982. (
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Tom is hugely proud of his family and showed off his new grandson Alexander, with Donna and Mark, when he visited Britain in September 1983. He was a granddad at forty-three. (
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Tom with Freda Woodward, the mother he adored. (
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Tom and his best friend Dai Perry were like brothers, growing up together in the same street in Treforest. Tom was thrilled when his pal became his bodyguard in the 1970s. (
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Dai was someone to share those champagne moments with, as well as keep a watchful eye on things. (
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They were still best buddies twenty years later, when Dai visited from his home in South Wales.The boys pose in front of the beautiful Utah landscape on a visit to the Snowbird resort near Salt Lake City in 1993. (
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Tom made sure he had time for his genuine fans, especially those, like Glenna Stone, who would plan their whole year around his tours. She saw him in concert hundreds of times and would always give him a box of his favourite After Eight mints. (
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