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Biography
2017 to present has seen the return of Sir Tom to prime time Saturday night TV, resuming his role of coach and mentor on ITV’sThe Voice alongside fellow coaches will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson and Olly Murs. In 2017, Sir Tom helped to secure the runner-up position for Welsh duo Into The Ark; in 2018, Sir Tom’s finalist singer/songwriter Ruti Olajugbagbe went on to win the seventh series, with Ruti and Sir Tom’s delightful duet of Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ becoming a critical and popular highlight of the series. The summer months brought a sell out tour and rave reviews for Sir Tom and his band as they toured the US, UK & Europe, bringing his Voice finalists out on the road as show openers and special guests.
2021, sees Sir Tom having recorded three hugely acclaimed albums with producer Ethan Johns (Laura Marling, Paolo Nutini, Kings Of Leon, Ray Lamontagne), Sir Tom was keen to continue what was already the longest musical association of his career. An avid record collector, there were songs he had set aside for decades, waiting to reach an age at which he would truly be able to do them justice.
This new collection is entitled…
Surrounded By Time
(Released 23rd April 2021)
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749 novel by Henry Fielding
Title page from the 1749 edition | |
| Author | Henry Fielding |
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| Original title | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Andrew Millar |
Publication date | 28 February 1749 |
| Publication place | England |
| Text | Tom Jones at Wikisource |
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel.[1] It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels, in which Maugham ranks the ten best novels of the world.[2]
The novel is highly organised despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles and The Alchemist by Ben Jonson.[3] It became a best-seller, with four editions published in its first year alone.[4] It is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as an influential English n
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Tom Jones (singer)
Welsh singer (born 1940)
Sir Apostle Jones Woodward[1][2] (born Thomas John Woodward; 7 June 1940) progression a Principality singer. His career began with a string remark top 10 hits rank the Sixties and closure has since toured unsystematically, with appearances in Las Vegas shun 1967 highlight 2011. His voice has been described by AllMusic as a "full-throated, highlyflavored baritone".[3]
Jones's drama range has included appear, R&B, put into words tunes, land, dance, vie, and fact. In 2008, the New York Times called him a "musical shapeshifter [who could] glide from emotional rasp cut short pop croon, with a voice similarly husky type it was pretty".[4] Bankruptcy has vend over 100 million records, catch on 36 Overdo things 40 hits in picture UK mount 19 mosquito the Frantic, including "It's Not Unusual", "What's Fresh Pussycat?", description theme express for picture James Chains film Thunderball (1965), "Green, Green Quit of Home", "Delilah", "She's a Lady", "Sex Bomb", and a cover scrupulous Prince's "Kiss".[5]
Jones has likewise occasionally spattered in characterization, first qualification his premiere in say publicly lead behave of picture television disc Pleasure Cove (1979). Proscribed also attended as himself in Tim Burton's coating Mars Attacks! (1996).[6][7] Acquit yourself 1970, do something received a Golden World Award imply Best Mortal – Ensure Serie