Bob guccione biography video only elvis

As he reaches pensionable age,Tom Jones tells Bob Guccione Jnr about the early days in south Wales, the nights with Elvis and Frank. And the legendary sparkle in his eyes.

When I was a boy in the Sixties, Tom Jones was the biggest pop star in the world. More than that, he was sex. I didn't know what sex was but I knew it was really, really important and that Tom Jones was its king because women threw their underpants at him.

Bob guccione biography video only elvis

The only underpants anyone ever threw at me were mine, by my mother, disgusted that I'd left them lying around the house. When you're young you have no sense of the trajectory of effort, success and failure, just of things being there, as permanent fixtures, like parents and buses.

So Tom Jones was just there, the world's greatest pop singer, hanging statically in the firmament like a silver-paper star in a school play. There were other, smaller, less shiny cut-out stars that twinkled briefly when they caught the spotlight, who had hit records, some fabulous, so