022. Sir Tom Jones

George Ezra & Friends

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week George chats with the living legend, Sir Tom Jones. He is one of the few musical artists whose profession began at the dawn of modern popular music and continues to have a vital recording & performing career to this day. Sir Tom has garnered at the age of 78, the best reviews of his career for his most recent albums Long Lost Suitcase, Spirit In The Room and Praise & Blame. Sir Tom has always been about the power of the song, the power of the voice. This podcast was edited by Warren Borg. The animations and visuals are thanks to Oisin Griffin. Thank you to Josh Sanger and the Closer Artists team. Thanks to Sir Tom for chatting with George. And of course, thank YOU for downloading and supporting this podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to George Ezra and friends the podcast and this
0:20.0	week I can't believe I'm saying this but this week our guest is the one and only the legendary
0:25.8	Sir Tom Jones and I can't tell you I can't even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed recording
0:32.1	this conversation it was just Tom very kindly invited me over to his place which was you know
0:38.5	very surreal and to sit down in front of the man himself and talk to him about everything
0:43.4	that he's done to make this a reality and you know keep music in his life every turn and he
0:51.3	just loves it you know he loves singing and it's just it's so inspiring to sit down with somebody that
0:57.0	loves what they do as much as this man loves singing and also Tom Jones is one of those people I
1:03.6	assume all of us think feel as if we know a little bit about he's been a part of our lives for well
1:09.0	especially as I'm aware for as long as I can remember it's just such a fascinating story I know
1:14.4	I shouldn't pick favorites don't tell the other guests but I think this might be one of my
1:20.4	I need to get off the fact this was my favourite episode to listen back to so far I absolutely
1:25.1	loved it so I hope you all enjoy it of course at the halftime break we will hear a word from our
1:31.7	partners at mind charity now mind they're a group of people and their main goal is to help all of us
1:38.2	and our mental health and so thank you very much mind and we will hear from you at the halftime
1:43.8	break and if you're listening with children there might be one or two naughty words one or two
1:50.3	swear words but I'm giving you a heads up so there you go that might happen and yeah ladies and
1:57.6	gentlemen please sit back and enjoy this conversation with Sir Tom Jones
2:02.6	so thank you very much for inviting me over and meet you me today
2:15.4	I sure I like it's amazing there's a lot of things I've been very excited about us talking about
2:23.0	yeah and I think what is most interesting or is very interesting or what I admire the most
2:33.0	in people is just their love for what they do yeah sure and I've been completely submerged in
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