Ka taƙaita labarin:  TOM JONES: RAYUWAR. ta Sean Smith. " Rayuwa ta fi kyau. " (HarperCollins £18.99) Tom Jones ya kasance tauraron duniya na gaskiya na rabin karni. Mutane nawa ne za su iya faɗin hakan? Bisa ga lissafin da na yi, ba su wuce 'yan kalilan ba: Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Clint Eastwood da kuma HM The Queen. Kuma daya daga cikinsu, na yi imani, zaune a cikin wani ya fi girma gidan fiye da Sir Tom. Sir Tom Jones (hoton da ke Los Angeles a shekarar 1978) ya samu lambar farko a Birtaniya a watan Maris na shekarar 1965. A watan Maris na 1965 ne ya fara bugawa, It's Not Unusual, ya tafi No. 1 a Burtaniya kuma ya sa ya shahara. Har wa yau, ba a ɓata sunan ba kuma baiwar ba ta yi sanyi ba. Wani muhimmin abin tunawa yana gabatowa a ranar 7 ga Yuni, lokacin da zai cika shekara 75. Dukkanin abin da ya sa shi cikakke batun ga wani lavishly nada, babu-holds-barred hardcover tarihin. Smiths ba shi ne na farko ba a gaskiya, shi ne na goma sha biyu. Amma shi ne na farko a kusan shekaru biyu, kuma ya kamata ya ci gaba da mu har sai kaka, lokacin da Sir Tom's autobiography ya fito. Me kuma babban mutum zai iya bayyanawa, ganin cewa kusan duk wani abin da za a iya tunaninsa an riga an bayyana shi? Tom (hoto a farkon shekarun 1970s) ya auri matarsa Linda a 1957 lokacin da suke duka shekaru 16 ne kawai. Domin Sir Tom bai yi rayuwar sirri ba. Ko da yake ya yi aure ga Linda, née Trenchard, na tsawon shekaru 58, kuma cikin farin ciki, ya ji dadin rayuwar soyayya mai ban sha'awa. Amma muddin Linda ba ta karanta game da shi a cikin jarida ba - bari mu yi fatan ba ta karanta wannan ba - sai ta rufe ido. Ba wai kawai batun samun kek ɗinka da cin shi ba. Yana da ciwon cake fiye da kowa da ya taba yi da kuma cin kowane karshe crumb na shi. Irin waɗannan damar ba za su taɓa tasowa ba, ba tare da baiwa ba. An haifi Jones da baiwar murya ta zinariya, kuma ya san ainihin abin da zai yi da ita. Wannan ya bayyana a karo na farko, kuma bai yi jinkiri ba tun daga lokacin. An haifi Tom Jones (a hoto) Thomas Woodward amma manajansa Gordon Mills ya shawo kan ya canza sunansa, wanda kuma ya shawo kan tauraron ya koma London daga Wales....
Tom Jones ya cika shekaru 75 a wannan shekara kuma ya kasance tauraron duniya na rabin karni. Ya yi farin ciki da matarsa Linda a cikin shekaru 58 da suka gabata. Duk da haka ya ji dadin rayuwar soyayya mai ban sha'awa. Elvis ya gamsu da cewa Tom ya sa safa a gaban wando.