If it doesn’t always work, no harm done: the knicker-throwers will still turn out, as long as he deigns to sing Delilah when they do. Surrounded by Time is magnificent -- it's redolent with wisdom and a raging lust for life that is free of camp. Johns had told Island Records that he wanted to work with Jones the most, and the label eventually brought the two together.

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The third single from the album, " One More Cup of Coffee", originally written by Bob Dylan, was released on 18 March. The world does not need another version of ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’, if it ever needed the original in the first place.He has won Brit, Golden Globe and Grammy awards, had the admiration of everyone from Elvis to Otis Redding, and boasts a back catalogue of standards – “Delilah”, “It’s Not Unusual”, “Green Green Grass of Home” – that are part of the fabric of British life.

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Johns is to Jones what Rick Rubin was to Johnny Cash: the director of affairs, the Svengali not to a promising starlet, but a giant made of leather and stone. Sir Tom Jones announces new album Surrounded By Time – LISTEN to his first single here SIR TOM JONES has announced his new album Surrounded By Time while releasing his first single Talking Reality Television Blues. Critics mainly praised Jones' vocal ability at a late point in his career as well as the songs selected to be covered for the album. For the Japanese CD release, Jones' 1965 recording of " It's Not Unusual" was included as a bonus track. Additional recording took place at Johns' Three Crows East studio in Wiltshire and the Bert Jansch Studio in Frome.

There’s no false tooth sibilance, and every lyric on Surrounded by Time is crisply enunciated and delivered with conviction and thought. The re-release includes an additional disc comprising a cover version of Bob Dylan's " Not Dark Yet", a new composition titled "One Hell of a Life", four live performances of Surrounded by Time tracks at Shepherd's Bush Empire, and an interview with Jones and Peter Paphides. The pair’s collaboration has recast Jones as a refined interpreter of emotionally resonant, stripped-back gospel, blues and contemporary leftfield songs: think Johnny Cash’s late-life work with Rick Rubin. I Owe It All To You has all the trademark flourishes you might expect from the queen of the divas, but, as Gary Raymond explains here, this is an album that sits well with the great goodbye albums of recent years.

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Album opener ‘I Won’t Crumble’ is utterly defiant, with closing statement ‘Lazarus Man’ promising another re-birth, another tussle with renewal. Fans – and there’s a lot of them – come to expect your trademark, and arrive at gigs demanding something they recognise, as opposed to something that will surprise them.

Upon arrival, the team soon learns that not only is the island surrounded by a wormhole that causes time to reset every three days, but it's also crawling with hideous monsters. Additionally, Surrounded by Time was the best-selling album of the week in terms of both physical and download sales. Surrounded By Time’ finds an artist chafing against encroaching limitations, while also serving notice that he won’t be bound by them. Sir Tom seems to be in the enviable position of sitting at the apex of a three-pronged career; one where he can please his fans by trotting out the well-worn hits at gigs (yes, Jones is still touring and has recently announced live dates for 2021 ), where he can enjoy himself in the elder statesman role on Saturday prime time television, and where he can experiment and express himself on albums.

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I hate that new hit of his – it’s sentimental crap,” kvetched the Who’s Pete Townshend as The Green, Green Grass of Home spent seven weeks at No 1 in 1966. The Daily Telegraph 's Neil McCormick awarded the album five out of five stars, lauding Jones' vocal ability at 80 years of age.

After Linda died, Jones relocated from Los Angeles, where he had lived for more than 40 years, to London. This latest album, Surrounded By Time , is dominated by a sharp and lush electronic sound fashioned by producer Ethan Johns . A repackaged expanded edition of Surrounded by Time, named The Hourglass Edition, was announced on 19 October 2021. I’m realising how important it is when you put something on record – that it’s going to live for ever,” he says. Sir Tom doesn’t have the avant garde pretensions to do anything as profound as what Bowie did, but he has the grit and passion to do something more interesting than Bassey.