Tom Jones’ wife, Melinda Rose Woodward, has died after a “short but fierce battle with cancer”.
Melinda Rose Woodward – known as Linda – who was married to Tom Jones for 59 years, died on April 10 at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
According to a statement on the 75-year-old musician’s website, she died “surrounded by her husband and loved ones”.
Tom Jones recently cancelled concerts due to a “serious illness” in his family.
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The singer, famous for hits including Delilah and It’s Not Unusual, had been due to perform at a number of his tour dates in Japan, Thailand, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, but apologized to fans after pulling out.
Tom Jones met his wife, his childhood sweetheart, when they were both 12 and growing up together in Treforest, Pontypridd.
They started dating at 15 and married when they were 16 in 1957.
They had one son Mark, 59, who is also Tom Jones’ manager.
In his 2015 autobiography titled Over The Top And Back, Tom Jones revealed they wanted more children, but a miscarriage had left Melinda infertile.
Speaking ahead of the book’s release, Tom Jones told the Sunday Times Magazine while he enjoyed life in the spotlight, his wife had always preferred being at home and had become increasingly reclusive in recent years, rarely leaving their Beverley Hills home.
Tom Jones said of his wife: “She is an unbelievable woman. She’s the most important thing in my life. All the rest is just fun and games.”
Tom Jones will appear alongside Morrissey at a Los Angeles concert in May, it has been announced.
“I will be Morrissey Official’s special guest at his show at the LA Sports Arena on May 10th,” wrote Tom Jones on Facebook.
Cliff Richard will also appear as a special guest at a Morrissey concert in New York on June 21 at the Barclays Centre.
Missouri singer Kristeen Young will join the performers on both dates – the first confirmed shows for Morrissey since he abandoned touring last year.
Tom Jones and Cliff Richard will appear on separate dates in Morrissey concerts
Morrissey, who eventually cancelled more than 40 dates, suffered a number of illnesses while on tour including a bleeding ulcer, Barrett’s oesophagus and double pneumonia.
The 54-year-old singer is expected to release a 10th solo studio album later this year.
In January, Morrissey took a swipe at the music industry saying: “The majority of people have lost faith in the music industry… It’s all, now, solely a question of marketing.
“All success stories are safe and dreary, and you will never be taken by surprise by a hit song that sounds out of place.”
Tom Jones is to perform at the legendary West Hollywood nightclub Troubadour as part of a small tour in the US.
The Troubadour is a venue famous for early gigs from fellow greats Sir Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Sir Tom Jones, 72, will also take to the stage at Philadelphia’s Theatre of the Living Arts and the Bowery Ballroom in New York during the tour in May.
It will follow Tom Jones’ latest stint as coach on British talent show The Voice.
The concerts were confirmed in a statement on Tom Jones’ official website.
Tom Jones is to perform at the legendary West Hollywood nightclub Troubadour as part of a small tour in the US
The dates, which run from 11 to 18 May, are being held to mark the US launch of Tom Jones’ latest album Spirit In The Room, his second “back-to-basics” collection of blues numbers.
The short US tour will see Tom Jones perform intimate gigs at venues more often frequented by up-and-coming rock bands.
Founded in 1957, the Troubadour on Los Angeles’ Santa Monica Boulevard famously helped establish the careers of numerous bands and singers.
Artists including James Taylor, Carole King, the Eagles, The Byrds, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Guns N’ Roses played gigs there in their early days.
Philadelphia’s Theatre of the Living Arts was originally a cinema, while New York’s Bowery Ballroom was built as a shop in the 1920s.
Most recently Tom Jones has performed in front of millions of viewers on the second series of The Voice in UK, in which he returned as a coach for aspiring vocalists alongside Jessie J, will.i.am and The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue.
Tom Jones, the charismatic veteran singer, has been forced to cancel a concert in Monaco due to a “severe dehydration”.
The “Sex Bomb” singer, who is now recovering at Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco, denied that a heart attack played a role in the cancellation of the Saturday, August 27 concert, as British media reported.
Tom Jones, 71, apologized to his fans on his website:
“There are NO heart problems, as has been reported in the press,” the singer’s website stated.
Tom Jones, who burst to international fame in 1964 with “It’s Not Unusual” and other hits, blamed his illness on 3-month successful “Praise & Blame” tour, “where many of the shows were in locations that were in the throes of high summer heat”. Monaco show was supposed to be the finale of his long tour.
Tom Jones, the charismatic veteran singer, has been forced to cancel a concert in Monaco due to a "severe dehydration"
“Sir Tom was ordered by doctors not to perform in Monte Carlo yesterday evening due to severe dehydration,” the statement continued.
“This was extremely disappointing for Tom, the band and all connected with the tour.”
Sources said that Tom Jones was admitted to intensive care on Saturday but he was moved to a regular room the next day because “was doing well”.
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Sir Thomas John Woodward, known to the public by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer, particularly noted for his powerful voice. Since the mid 1960s, Tom Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records.
Tom Jones, whose charisma onstage earned some comparisons to his idol, Elvis Presley, made his singing debut at three.
In 1967, Tom Jones performed for the first time in Las Vegas at the Flamingo. His charismatic performances and style of dress (increasingly featuring his open half unbuttoned shirts and tight trousers) became part of his stage act. Women would swoon and scream, and some would throw their knickers on stage. Soon after he began to play Las Vegas, he chose to record less, instead concentrating on his lucrative club performances. At Caesars Palace, his shows were traditionally a knicker-hurling frenzy of raw sexual tension and good-time entertainment. It was there that women started throwing hotel room keys on stage.
Tom Jones and his idol Elvis Presley met in 1965 at the Paramount film stage, when Elvis was filming Paradise, Hawaiian Style. Afterward, they became good friends, spending more and more time together in Las Vegas and even duetting until the early hours at Presley’s private Las Vegas suite. Their friendship endured until Elvis Presley’s death in 1977.
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Tom Jones held onto his sexy image for decades, only recently agreeing to perform and be photographed without touching up the gray in his hair and beard.
However, Tom Jones still plans for this year a short tour of central and Eastern Europe starting in November.
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