Tom Jones Close Up

Author : Lucy Ellis
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857121073
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Jones: Close Up written by Lucy Ellis and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Jones: Close Up surpasses all other attempts to chronicle the life of a unique star who has been notoriously unforthcoming about himself. It also offers a fascinating insight into half a century of pop, spanning the Fifties pub scene of South Wales, the glitzy resort hotels of Eighties Vegas and a triumphant period of personal reinvention for a whole new generation of Jones fans at the start of the 21st century.This highly readable biography finally separates truth from myth to reveal the flesh-and-blood man behind the legend. With over 70 interviews including friends, family and colleagues, Tom Jones: Close Up offers a minutely-researched chronology of Jones' 40-year career as well as details of his odd life of deep family ties and unbridled sexual promiscuity. From Las Vegas and L.A. to London and South Wales, the authors the pieces together the roller-coaster life of Tom Jones spanning his carer childhood and the days of legendary stardom, through the career slump in the eighties to the spectacular comeback of the Reload album. Includes 24 pages of photographs from every era of Jones' life.

Author : Sir Tom Jones
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399576363
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Top and Back written by Sir Tom Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited autobiography of legendary singer Tom Jones, following six decades of unparalleled experiences in the spotlight to coincide with his 75th birthday. Across six decades, Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in a risky, unstable business notorious for the short lives of its artists. With a drive that comes from nothing but the love for what he does, he breaks through and then wrestles with the vagaries of the music industry, the nature of success and its inevitable consequences. Having recorded an expansive body of work and performed with fellow artists from across the spectrum and across every popular music genre, from rock, pop and dance to country, blues and soul, the one constant throughout has been his unique musical gifts and unmistakable voice. But how did a boy from a Welsh coal-mining family attain success across the globe? And how has he survived the twists and turns of fame and fortune to not only stay exciting, but actually become more credible and interesting with age? In this, his first ever autobiography, Tom revisits his past and tells the tale of his journey from wartime Pontypridd to LA and beyond. He reveals the stories behind the ups and downs of his fascinating and remarkable life, from the early heydays to the subsequent fallow years to his later period of artistic renaissance. It's the story nobody else knows or understands, told by the man who lived it, and written the only way he knows how: simply and from the heart. Raw, honest, funny and powerful, this is a memoir like no other from one of the world's greatest ever singing talents. This is Tom Jones and Over the Top and Back is his story.

Author : Gwen Russell
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1857827759
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Jones - An Extraordinary Life written by Gwen Russell and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he owner of one of the most recognizable faces - not to mention voices - in the entertainment business, Sir Tom Jones is the definition of a national treasure. It has been over fifty years since Jones's breakthrough single 'It's Not Unusual' reached Number One in the UK, and it seems as if he has been a permanent fixture on our airwaves ever since. Songs like 'Delilah' and 'She's a Lady' are by now a part of the nation's cultural fabric - but this astounding success wasn't always assured for the legendary Welsh entertainer. Having already overcome a devastating bout of childhood tuberculosis, Tom Jones married his teenage girlfriend at the youthful age of sixteen. With a young family to support, it seemed far more likely that a career as a vacuum salesman was beckoning. However, Jones's voice was destined for greater things than sales patter, and with thirty-six Top Forty singles to his name, his enduring popularity is a testament to just how talented that voice is. His career hasn't always been plain-sailing though. Lengthy quiet periods without much professional success, combined with well-documented infidelities in his private life, has meant that Jones has known his fair share of tough times. In An Extraordinary Life, bestselling biographer Gwen Russell charts Jones's journey from young, unsigned local singer to one of Britain's best-loved entertainers. With his seventy-fifth birthday behind him, and forging a successful TV career thanks to his work heading The Voice, Jones's status as a living legend is guaranteed.

Author : Aubrey Malone
Publisher : Y Lolfa
ISBN 13 : 1847715818
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still Rockin' - Tom Jones, A Biography written by Aubrey Malone and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short biography of Tom Jones's rags to riches story - his journey from a Welsh mining village to superstardom. The author explores his musical career, his special relationship with his wife and Wales, and also gives an insight into his phenomenal womanizing. This is a balanced and sympathetic account of Jones's personal and professional life.

Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849439249
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Jones written by Henry Fielding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Jones was Henry Fielding’s greatest work. The first piece of English prose to be considered a novel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge praised it as ‘one of the most perfect plots ever planned’. A hero, a heroine, dead parents, adversity, misadventure, mistakes and then resolution, happy ever after. A story told throughout the ages, part of our collective unconscious. Uproarious and unconventional, Tom Jones was adapted by John Osborne for the 1963 Oscar-winning film. Directed by Tony Richardson and starring Albert Finney, it won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The novel has been used as a basis for opera and television adaptations as well as Osborne’s much-loved screenplay. Re-published in this new edition, Tom Jones is eminently suitable for stage productions.

Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Tom Jones written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595271669
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Tom Jones written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Donald
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691004633
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Close Up 1927-1933 written by James Donald and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close Up was the first English-language journal of film theory. Published between 1927 and 1933, it billed itself as "the only magazine devoted to film as an art," promising readers "theory and analysis: no gossip." The journal was edited by the writer and filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson, the novelist Winifred Bryher, and the poet H. D., and it attracted contributions from such major figures as Dorothy Richardson, Sergei Eisenstein, and Man Ray. This anthology presents some of the liveliest and most important articles from the publication's short but influential history. The writing in Close Up was theoretically astute, politically incisive, open to emerging ideas from psychoanalysis, passionately committed to "pure cinema," and deeply critical of Hollywood and its European imitators. The articles collected here cover such subjects as women and film, "The Negro in Cinema," Russian and working-class cinema, and developments in film technology, including the much debated addition of sound. The contributors are a cosmopolitan cast, reflecting the journal's commitment to internationalism; Close Up was published from Switzerland, printed in England and France, and distributed in Paris, Berlin, London, New York, and Los Angeles. The editors of this volume present a substantial introduction and commentaries on the articles that set Close Up in historical and intellectual context. This is crucial reading for anyone interested in the origins of film theory and the relationship between cinema and modernism.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857125958
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Popular Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Author : James Donald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441116060
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Close Up: Cinema And Modernism written by James Donald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. This volume republishes articles from the journal, with an introduction and a commentary on the lives of, and complex relationships between, its writers and editors.