With millions of devoted fans, Tom Jones is not only one of the most successful singers of all time but he has sustained his popularity over an incredible four decades. His story begins in the tiny South Wales mining village of Treforest where he was born in 1940. When he contracted tuberculosis as a young boy he vowed never again to let anything hold him back: it was a prophetic moment. Today he lives in a large house in Bel Air and has earned a fortune that still exceeds $1 billion.
Robin Eggar has talked to close friends, family, business associates in England and the United States, and to Tom Jones himself, and paints a rounded portrait of the man from the Welsh Valleys who has become a pop legend: the sixtysomething sex symbol with an unbelievable voice who has encountered and survived the many pitfalls that come with celebrity, yet whose life is still completely dedicated to singing.
