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00:00I was born with a voice.
00:15I don't think you can create that.
00:23That's what gave me the confidence.
00:30So it started there, you know, singing in school, singing in chapel, singing at weddings.
00:38And getting this response.
00:40I realized as a child that I would need luck.
00:44You know, I'd need to meet people to get into show business.
00:47You know, you had to put in the work.
00:51I knew it wasn't going to be an easy ride.
00:54But I was lost like a slave that no man could free.
00:59I'm Tom Jones.
01:00I'm Isaiah.
01:01So Tom, Manygate Lane.
01:29Yeah.
01:30Yeah, we bought this house in 1966.
01:36Yeah.
01:37This was the first house that we actually bought.
01:42Because we used to live, my wife, myself and my son lived with my mother-in-law in Wales.
01:51This was very special, this place.
01:54I bought my first car as well.
01:57A red Jaguar.
01:583.8.
01:59So we had a new house, new car.
02:04New life.
02:05Full camera set.
02:08Can you just get on the board, please?
02:11Focus here.
02:12Yeah, yeah.
02:15Hi.
02:16Here we are, Manygate Lane.
02:18Yeah.
02:18You just came in the front.
02:19That's right.
02:20How was that?
02:21Fine.
02:22Because we never used to come in that way.
02:23It was always...
02:24We came in from the back.
02:25The road is out there.
02:26The road is out there.
02:27You park the car and then come in that way.
02:30So it was nice coming in this way today, because I never used to see much of that out there.
02:36When we bought the house in 1966, this was a new development at the time.
02:41We found a nice early clip of this time, we think.
02:45Shall we have a look?
02:46Okay.
02:46Oh, yeah.
02:55They had this idea about me gardening.
02:57They wanted me to get in the garden.
02:59I don't know why.
03:00Because I've never been a big gardener.
03:03But they must have thought it would be good for the telly.
03:09And it was brand new, you see.
03:10So the garden had to be sorted out anyway.
03:12Really, I'm glad I got married before I made the grade, because I would be frightened to
03:24get married to anybody, in case they were just marrying me for my name and not me.
03:29And then if I should happen to fall one day, there would be nothing left.
03:33But I know that my wife married me for me, because I was nobody at the time.
03:42Linda, my wife, was thrilled to bits to have her own kitchen, you know, our own bathroom.
03:55Because in Wales, at that time, the bath was on a nail outside, you know, on the wall.
04:01there was a tv there and then there was a an l-shaped uh sitting arrangement we had a bar
04:13in the corner over there you know portable bar which we thought was very posh at the time and
04:20there were a lot of film stars around uh john gregson used to live around the corner ian henry
04:26and dickie valentine lived at the end of this street diana doors came over you know those were
04:35my neighbors but then dickie valentine's mother lived next door and she sometimes would complain
04:42about the noise that was being made here late at night
04:50i think most people think that um welsh people all work in their minds well this isn't true
04:56my father uh works in the mine still does as a matter of fact and um a lot of welsh boys go down
05:04the mine when they leave school but i never fancied it because i've always wanted to be a pop singer
05:09since i can remember
05:17i i enjoyed my life in south wales i liked going to the local
05:23club with my father and his brothers and my cousins in tree forest i loved that i couldn't wait
05:32to be one of them i was too young you know and i thought one day you know when i'm i'll be able to
05:38go with my cousins and my uncles to the woodroad club it was a great community to come from
05:47and how lucky we were to be born where we were born to those people you know the salt of the earth
05:57coal mining that's what they were and but it was a wonderful experience and i wouldn't change it for the
06:05the world all i remember more than anything else is love there was so much love
06:16you don't really know how wonderful it is until later when you look back at it
06:29i was always confident you know as a child growing up because i could always sing you know so
06:42every time i sang people would listen so i thought this is going to work you know this is good this is
06:47what i'm going to do all my family sang so on my father's side and my mother's side they were singers
06:55so we would have parties on weekends so you would always on weddings i had a lot of cousins you see
07:00they were getting married so it gave me an opportunity to to get up and sing and i remember this old
07:07fella um who was an uncle of the girl that my cousin married he couldn't believe it when i sang in in
07:16in the house uh the reception afterwards and he said that this boy should not be singing for nothing
07:22you know and he took his he had a flat cap on you know called my flat cap threw it on the floor and he
07:29says come on you know let's so they all started throwing coins in while i was singing at this
07:36wedding and uh but then i had to take my cousins to the pictures with the money that i had made
07:47when you have a voice or a musical talent of any kind and you you can do it and get across to people
07:56and they respond it gives you confidence so then i started going around pubs workman's clubs which
08:03was a great outlet there was a local group that was playing a ymca and their singer didn't show
08:12so i was having a few drinks with some friends of mine i came and asked me would i go and sing
08:17and i said my god you know friday night is uh is beer night so we we started playing these workman's
08:27clubs and went all over south west that was a great training ground
08:33and i said we must come and see this this boy in a group called tommy scott and the senators
08:51i said well where are they working it was miles over in another valley somewhere
08:55and we went over we sat down the place was heaving i'd seen most of the big stars in the world
09:03and i waited for him and he came on and halfway to the first number he was the greatest thing i'd ever
09:07seen that was tom i had no idea that i would become a manager i had no intention it was in my mind
09:14the first thing away from my mind all i knew is that i said to him if you come to london i think you
09:19should have to come to london london is the hub the center he came up and i was doing demonstration
09:24records of songs i was writing at the time took him in on the studios then he came up and lived
09:30with my wife and i in bayswater i got on very well with him and he was a singer in a vocal group
09:36called the viscounts they had a couple of two or three hit records that i'd seen on television so i
09:43knew he was a professional person that could help me so then he said okay and i'll become your manager
09:49gordon at this point can can we just have a look at a monitor because we've got a shot of tom
09:53around about that period so i think you might okay to look at shall we just yes have a look at that
10:14in beat room there was an audience like top of the pops you know so i was performing to those people
10:20in the audience one more time one more time i want to get right in their faces you know i want
10:26to explode
10:42in those days you there was a variety within the show
10:47i remember julie rogers was on the same show she had a ballad called the wedding and she was on that
10:53show with john lee hooker and the kinks uh you know and myself
11:02hi there welcome once again to the beat room here at shepherd's push first in view this week is this
11:07tall handsome lad called tom jones who now gives us his name is record title called chills and the fever
11:13wow in the bbc in 1964 you went to a big tv studio and i remember seeing pan's people outside
11:29uh rehearsing uh rehearsing and i thought wow this is it i was part of it
11:46so coming into dacca studios that was the first real recording studio that i'd ever been in
12:03because it was all brand new you see we had come from wales and uh going into a recording studio
12:11was a big deal i auditioned for peter sullivan and he said yeah you know i can hear you and uh
12:21if you fancy it we get a three record deal three singles the beatles you know they auditioned for
12:29for decker first of all and they were refused they were turned down and then they went to ami and
12:34they accepted them so um so it was the rolling stones and myself you know we were on deck at that
12:42particular time you're in london you're on tecker wow your foot is firmly in the door yeah
12:51this was it that's the that's the sound booth in there yeah good but tom i think you could improve
13:03it if you do the second lucille give it much more expression attack it on the second phrase
13:09it'll give it a hell of a lot more bite okay let's do it once again from the top
13:27yes life has changed for tom jones and the squires since it all happened tom jones the
13:33minor son from ponterpreet the man with the old swinging body now it's a life far away from the
13:47working men's clubs of south wales a life of one night stands around britain of weekends spent
13:53cutting new records in hot studios sessions lasting hours at a time but tom and the squires were
14:00rehearsing some odd titles at these studios in north london when i called in
14:17right good good we'll try that again in a few moments okay it felt great when you can when you
14:25packed the whole thing in you know even with a bigger orchestra we would try and get them in this
14:30room and it sounded tight more rock and roll the contract that i had with decca was three for
14:41three singles you only had three tries you know three strikes and you're out so the first one didn't
14:48make it so i thought we've got to get a song so gordon said well i got this song for sandy shore
14:57because sandy shore had had a couple of hits and they were boom boom boom boom you know like that
15:05so that sort of gave him the idea of it's not unusual with a bump the bump and he asked me would i do the
15:10demo well when i heard that demo back i said that's that's the song now he said it's for sandy shore it's a
15:21nice you know bossa nova type thing because i said look if i don't get this song i'm going back to
15:26wales because i know this is the one it was number one march the first in 1965. i was doing an ed
15:38sullivan show in april or may so it was unbelievable it's not unusual to be loved by the one
15:48it's not unusual to have fun with anyone
15:53when i see you hanging about with anyone
15:56it's not unusual to see me cry
16:04i remember being in new york in a hotel and i had these windows open
16:09and the cabs used to you know all night and i thought my god i'm i'm in new york
16:14as a few months before i was struggling
16:27sunday night live television to millions of people
16:38you know tv i realized was uh was the big thing
16:44uh when it's not unusual which my first hit record my father was still working in a coal mine
16:52and uh i had a you know a new jaguar i had the new house and i i went back to wales because i would
16:59go back whatever chance i got i will drive back to pontypris so one night on a sunday um i'd been
17:07out with my father and then we got back to the house and my mother was cutting sandwiches for him
17:12i said where are you going he said i'm going to work i'm on the night shift i said you can't go to
17:16work and he said i'm a coal miner that's what i do i said i understand that but i'm making money
17:24i mean i'm making a lot of money now he said yeah but how long is it going to last
17:33that was a big deal for me you know to get him out of the coal mine
17:36because i didn't like that it was a dangerous job you know when i gave them this house and we moved
17:43to sunbury on thames which is not far away sometimes you would get depressed
17:50my mother called me she said your father won't get out of bed
17:53i said what's the matter with him she said come and talk to him so i came in and went up to that
17:58bedroom there and i said what's the matter uh i don't feel i'm you know i'm i'm not contributing
18:05anything you know for them to leave everything they knew was in ponty breathe he wanted to see
18:12his friends you see and they weren't here because i was successful i i had expected people oh yeah come
18:23on you know and they would all be thrilled to bits but were they
18:36when i was doing these at sullivan shows in 65 he liked me at sullivan took you know he really
18:42liked what i was doing so i did like five or six of them so they moved the at sullivan show from
18:48new york to la so i had to go to la which was great and they said elvis is here i would love to
18:58meet you elvis i had a ballad out then called with these hands so when i met elvis presley on the
19:08set started to walk towards me singing with these hands my song and i thought my god you know if the
19:17boys back home could see me now with elvis scored with these hands i wanted to go to vegas we were in
19:32l.a so i went to vegas to check it out because i'd heard about it and seen it the movies and it was
19:39small then you know it was there wasn't that many uh hotels so then they offered me the flamingo two
19:49shows a night for a month straight that's another thing you know with america two shows every night
19:59you wouldn't see much daylight because after you do the second show it was eight o'clock and 12 o'clock
20:06shows then you'd go to see somebody in a lounge you know all the rock and roll singers by this time
20:13were playing lounges facts domino you know i used to hang out with and jackie wilson you know and
20:19the jerry lee lewis was little richard so i would hang out with these fellas until the sun came up
20:27so and then elvis came to town and then he'd want to stay up all night you know
20:41long after stars have lost their glow
20:50ladies and gentlemen this is tom jones
20:53when i got my own show it was the biggest ever tv show from great britain to be shown on national
21:04television in america i mean i could do duets with people that i'd grown up listening to
21:10i mean my idols still a 50s rock and roll singers
21:24i can't hear your mama
21:38Yeah, golly, Miss Molly, you're sure like a bomb.
21:43I can tell you, Miss Molly, honey, you're sure like a bomb.
21:49Now when you're rocking and you're rolling, you can't hear your mama call.
21:55From the early, early morning to the early, early night,
21:58well, I saw Miss Molly rocking at the house of Bill.
22:01Oh, golly, Miss Molly, you're sure like a bomb.
22:06You're rocking and I'm rolling, baby, I'll give you my mama call.
22:12Meeting those people and having them on my TV show,
22:15you know, to sing a duet with Fats Domino, Chuck Berry,
22:18Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wilson Pickett, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin.
22:24So I was able to do things on TV that you couldn't do on record.
22:31And Little Richard was, I mean, tremendous.
22:36To sing with him was one of the highlights of my life.
22:41Now when you're rocking and I'm rolling, baby,
22:44you can't hear your mama call.
22:49When people say to me, who would you like to sing with?
22:52I say, it all depends on the song.
22:54You know, how can we gel together that we can complement one another?
22:59So there's got to be a marriage there.
23:03If you ever need something that you never, ever, ever had.
23:09And I know you never had.
23:11Oh, honey, don't you just sit there crying.
23:15Just sit there feeling bad.
23:17No, no, no.
23:18You better get up.
23:20Don't you understand?
23:21And raise your hand.
23:24I say, raise your hand.
23:27You know, I'm standing above.
23:31I want you to give me all your love.
23:36So come on, open up.
23:39Open up your heart.
23:41Yeah.
23:43Please let me try.
23:44You better be good.
23:46Baby, understand.
23:48No, no, no.
23:49Raise your hand.
23:50Oh, whatever you will ever feel, you better want me for you.
23:56Honey, now, don't you think you should.
23:59I said, I want you to give, give, give, give.
24:02Give it to me one time.
24:03But don't I know, no, no, no, you would.
24:06Oh, no, no.
24:07You better be good.
24:08Don't you understand?
24:11Janice Joplin.
24:13She was this wild rock singer and didn't do variety shows.
24:17So when she came on, she said, I'm only doing this for you.
24:22She said, I don't do variety shows.
24:24But I love the way you sing.
24:26And I said, well, likewise.
24:31She wanted to be as raw as she could.
24:34You know, she rubbed off on me.
24:35I mean, she was so vibrant that I went along with it.
24:47Well, it is what it is, I suppose.
25:10Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
25:17In the lane, snow is glistening.
25:24A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight.
25:31Walking in a winter wonderland.
25:36This was in the 70s.
25:39And things, I wasn't getting the hit records.
25:44So what do you do?
25:46So then it was suggested to do some TV specials for the BBC.
25:52OK.
25:53So one is in Switzerland.
25:54You know, one is in Barbados.
25:56So we went to these locations and did songs because Gordon Mills thought it was a good idea.
26:03But I wasn't particularly comfortable with it.
26:06But I didn't really have a choice because, again, the ideas were not there.
26:12And the songs.
26:13See, he wasn't writing.
26:15He wasn't getting me hit songs.
26:16He wasn't writing them himself.
26:19And he wasn't finding them.
26:20You know, by other people, other people getting hits all through the disco era.
26:25You know, I didn't get one of those songs.
26:29So I had to rely on TV to keep me in the public eye.
26:34And that's the only thing that was available.
26:37Variety.
26:39You don't get your own way all the time.
26:41You know, you've got to take the rough or the smooth.
26:45But it, again, was taking me away from what I really want to do musically.
26:52You know, it was sort of fluff.
26:55Fluffy.
26:58As I told you, the songs were not coming.
27:01So my recording career took a hit.
27:04So I was concentrating on live shows.
27:08And I think I might have become larger than life.
27:12You know, you get caught up in it.
27:15And sometimes you should take a step back.
27:20It's fantastic.
27:21It's moving and singing.
27:23Oh, yeah, fancy.
27:24Yeah, fancy.
27:25Nice.
27:26It's basically because he's born and shakes the pussy back.
27:36So through the, I would say, late 70s, early 80s, I had lost my way.
27:41For the fans, old and new, it's a ritual.
27:45No surprises, and they like it that way.
27:48They know exactly when to clap, when to cry, when to bring out their hankies to mop the dampened brow.
27:53And they know that, in exchange, a lucky few will always get a kiss.
27:57By this time, my son and my daughter-in-law were my managers, and made me aware, you know, don't pick up the underwear.
28:05If they're going to throw it at you, let it land what it may.
28:09But don't make a big deal out of it, because you're belittling yourself.
28:14You're cheapening your talent.
28:21And they were right.
28:23And I was wrong.
28:26Tom Jones Enterprises.
28:27Yes, who's calling, please?
28:32Okay.
28:33Sure, hold on.
28:35Hello?
28:36Sandy.
28:36My son and my daughter-in-law took over as managers, and then that gave it, you know, a kickstart again.
28:44Not the way we like to be represented, because it really is that kind of an act at all.
28:51Also, the sentence that says, intense, emotional, gyrating, rhythm and blues act, I think we kind of lose the gyrating, if you don't mind.
29:00I always had a strong opinion that some things were just wrong.
29:03In an ideal world, the focus of his image will shift about three feet upwards, and last always with his voice, and nothing else.
29:13Like I thought at the beginning that I needed a song, before I did It's Not Unusual, I was waiting for the song again.
29:22And it was Kiss.
29:24And I felt that my voice was still there, strong enough to do it, if I could get the right song.
29:30But it took the art of noise to make it new.
29:34So I did a track, just the voice, and then they did the arrangement.
29:39And that's what did it.
29:40You know, the explosion.
29:42When I heard that, you don't have to be...
29:45And I thought, that's it.
29:46This sounds like a hit to me.
29:48Turn me on
29:49I just need your body, baby
29:54From dusk till dawn
29:58You don't need experience
30:03To turn me out
30:06A new sound.
30:08You know, that sound is different.
30:09I hadn't recorded with a sound like that before.
30:12I'll show you what it's all about
30:14It was like starting over.
30:16You know, I thought, it's like a new start.
30:19Getting back in the charts, getting a hit record.
30:23I felt it.
30:24Ain't no particular sign
30:26I'm more compatible with
30:29I just want your extra time
30:32Without even opening my shirt.
30:34Yeah!
30:34Once we had a hit with Kiss
30:42I knew that that was a new beginning.
30:47This year, for once, the main talking point was the music.
30:52And this was the man they were all talking about.
30:54Tom Jones was to many a surprise choice for Pilton
31:00Playing his first ever festival at an age where his grandchildren were among the audience.
31:06So why did he come?
31:08Because they asked me to come.
31:09They called and said that they would like me to be here.
31:13So I said fine.
31:14I mean, that's all I need is an invitation.
31:17So, and I'm here.
31:18Somebody said Tom Jones at the Glastonbury Festival
31:21They're trying to make it respectable.
31:22Well, I heard that the other day.
31:24They said middle-aged respectability.
31:27Middle-aged yet, but I don't know about respectable.
31:29Well, I suppose I am respectable.
31:34No, I mean...
31:35Hopefully I've become respectable.
31:40I see why you're part of such a crime
31:43If you should ever want me to run
31:47When they asked me to close the event
31:48The surprise guest
31:51I thought we'll go on there and do like a soulful show
31:55But the result was unbelievable
31:58I'm still here
32:02You know, that's how you feel
32:03You know, I'm still here
32:05I'm still doing it
32:06I'm still loving it
32:07And thank God
32:08The people
32:09Still love me doing it
32:12So
32:12You can't ask for more than that
32:14Thank you very much
32:17What do you think of him then?
32:19Oh, I think he's brilliant
32:20I didn't realise he had so much magnetism
32:23How was it?
32:25HGV News
32:26How was it up there?
32:27Wonderful
32:27What were the crowd like?
32:29Great
32:30What do you think of the whole of the Glastonbury Festival?
32:32I think it's wonderful
32:32Mark said to me
32:36Well, look, there's a lot of young groups out there
32:38That you could work with
32:39If you fancy it
32:41I said, sure, why not?
32:45So why does the most famous grandfather in pop
32:48Still want to make records?
32:50Because I love singing
32:51And I want to compete
32:52I don't want people to say
32:54Oh, Tom Jones made
32:55Great sounding records in the 60s
32:58I want him to say, you know
33:00He makes great sounding records
33:02Open up the window
33:04Let some air to this room
33:06I think my mama's choking
33:08From the smell of stale perfume
33:10And the cigarette you're smoking
33:12About to scare me half to death
33:14Open up the window
33:15Let me catch my breath
33:17Mama told me about to come
33:19I knew that there were some Welsh bands coming up
33:22Which I wanted to do
33:24So Stereophonics, you know
33:27And Catatonia with Keres Matthews
33:29And the Manics Week Preachers
33:31So I wanted those three
33:33For definite
33:34The cardigans were suggested
33:44It did what we wanted it to do
34:02To work with, you know, young people
34:05With stuff that they wanted to do
34:07I asked every one of them
34:08What would you like to do
34:10And we'll do it
34:12It's not a gimmicky thing
34:16We're not doing it just for effect
34:18It's real
34:19We all had a great time
34:29And everything was so natural
34:31The singer Tom Jones has been knighted
34:39At Buckingham Palace for services to music
34:41The 65-year-old minor son said
34:44Accepting the knighthood was a great
34:46And a humbling honour
34:47Sir Thomas Woodward
34:49Known as Tom Jones for services to music
34:53Knighthood was something that I never dreamt of
34:57You know, I mean, I've always been a royalist
34:59Ever since I was a child
35:01Because I've always been interested in British history
35:03And it was a special moment
35:05I'll never forget that
35:07Because she was so lovely
35:09And then meeting her afterwards
35:13And then many more through the years
35:16And it's, um, it was tremendous
35:19This one tops it all
35:20I mean, the knighthood is fantastic
35:22It's, um, it's just different
35:26That's, that's the biggest thing that's ever
35:28Happened to me
35:30Because when I was a kid, you know
35:32I wanted to make hit records
35:34I wanted to get
35:35I wanted to become a professional singer
35:37And do television shows
35:40And, you know, like that
35:41That's what you think when you're a child
35:43But to be knighted
35:45I never, if somebody had told me
35:48When I was a kid, you know
35:49Would you ever think about being knighted?
35:51I mean, please
35:53But let's now welcome
35:55And a great legend indeed
35:56The wonderful Sir Tom Jones
35:582009, you stopped dying your hair
36:03Yes
36:04Was that just an instant decision for you?
36:06Uh, yes
36:07I was doing a later show
36:09Jules Holland
36:10And I saw the clip of it afterwards
36:13And I thought, my God
36:15My hair, it looks dyed
36:17And it looked permed
36:19You're captivating high
36:21The clever way they smile
36:24Stops him in his tracks
36:26And people were saying
36:28Tom Jones with his dyed, permed hair
36:30Well, it wasn't permed
36:32But the dye made it look more like that
36:35They've broken the mold
36:38This is not working
36:41It looks false
36:42And I don't want to be false
36:44When you're standing there
36:46The world disappears
36:51It would be a...
36:52I was in Florida
36:53And I was about to dye my hair
36:56And I'm looking at it in the mirror
36:58And I'm thinking
36:58I think I'll let it go
37:00Nobody complained
37:09Everybody said, your hair looks great, Tom
37:12So thank you very much
37:14You can't try to be a younger person
37:20And I don't, you know
37:22I wouldn't want to
37:23And I think people see that
37:25That I'm not, you know
37:26Younger people have said
37:27You are you
37:28You're being you
37:29You're not trying to be
37:31And I think they'll see through you
37:33In a minute
37:34If you're false
37:35This is it
37:40That's that riff
37:41We had a lot of songs on the table
37:48To choose from
37:49When we were cutting this record
37:50The ones that stuck
37:53Were the ones that
37:53Had an emotional resonance for him
37:55Everything that we chose
37:56And everything that's on the record
37:58Is part of the songs about something
38:00That means something to him right now
38:02When I first met Ethan
38:04And I said, how are we going to do this
38:06I told him what kind of thing
38:07That I wanted to do
38:08I realized that when I got in the studio with him
38:10He knew what kind of thing he wanted
38:12He wanted it to be as real
38:14As I wanted it to be
38:16He said, I hear things in your voice
38:19That haven't been recorded yet
38:21And he said
38:24I think you should be, you know
38:25Stripped down musically
38:26You've always had big arrangements
38:28And he said
38:30We could go into the studio
38:31With just a few instruments
38:34I want to hear your voice
38:36If I die
38:38And my soul belongs
38:42I thought we were rehearsing
38:43The microphone was there
38:45And he said
38:47That's what I want
38:48I want you naturally
38:50I don't want you to perform
38:51You know, like if you sing it to yourself
38:54Like you just were now
38:55It was a more natural way
38:58Of recording
38:59With Ethan
39:00Than when I started with Decca
39:02And the experience of life
39:04You see
39:04Hopefully
39:05It will show
39:06In your delivery of a song
39:08And I think it does
39:10When I listen to stuff
39:12That I recorded years ago
39:13Sometimes I think
39:15I didn't really understand that song
39:17And it shows
39:18But now
39:20I understand more
39:21About the
39:23The content
39:24Of the song
39:26Like the Bob Dylan song
39:27What Good Am I
39:28It's
39:30I was thinking of my wife
39:32You know
39:32Because she got ill
39:34You know, with cancer
39:35I recorded it before
39:36She got ill
39:38But she was in my mind
39:39When I was recording it
39:42Because she had started to
39:44Health wasn't good
39:46And her mental
39:48She wasn't in a good place
39:50And this
39:51And I felt
39:53Partly responsible for it
39:55So it's like
39:56What good am I
39:57If I'm like all the rest
39:58You know
39:59If I just turn away
40:00When I see how you're dressed
40:02Because she'd lost it
40:03You know
40:04So that was on my mind
40:05When I recorded it
40:06And then when she passed away
40:09I said
40:10Linda I don't think
40:10I'll be able to
40:12Carry on
40:12And she said
40:13You must carry on
40:14That's what you do
40:16You know
40:17You're a singer
40:17You've got to carry on
40:19Don't let this
40:20Destroy you
40:22What good am I
40:26If I know
40:28If I know and don't do
40:30If I see and don't say
40:36If I look straight through you
40:40And I turn it deafly
40:46To the thundering sky
40:50What good am I
40:59What good am I
41:06While you saw you
41:09And I hear you
41:13And I hear in my head
41:16What you say
41:18In your sleep
41:20And I freeze in the moment
41:25Like the rest
41:28Like the rest
41:28Who don't try
41:29What good am I
41:33What good am I
41:37What good am I then
41:55To the others and me
41:59When I've had
42:01When I've had every chance
42:03But still failed to see
42:06In my hands tied
42:10Must I
42:11None wonder within
42:14Who tied them and why
42:18And where must I have been
42:23What good am I
42:30If I say foolish things
42:34And I laugh in the face
42:40Of what sorrow brings
42:43And I just turn my back
42:49While you silently die
42:54What good am I
43:04What good am I
43:13What good am I
43:25I think why a lot of singers get
43:55Their heads in the cloud
43:57A little bit
43:57Because they forget
44:00What they were before
44:01They were pop singers
44:05I will never forget this
44:12I will always remember
44:13As long as I live
44:14What it's like
44:15To work hard
44:17When I was young
44:20I didn't have that much
44:21And I think you learn
44:25I think you learn to realize
44:26More about life
44:27When you don't have that much
44:29When you're a child
44:30I think you grow up faster
44:31You come face to face
44:33With reality
44:34Much quicker
44:34Singing is my life
44:40And that's what I will always do
44:43Is to sing
44:45Because I haven't got any interest
44:46In anything else really
44:47I've never seen that clip before
44:58That's the first time for me
45:01To see that
45:01That's great
45:03Any regrets
45:06Along the way
45:08Not really
45:09No big ones
45:10I've achieved
45:12What I wanted to
45:14You know
45:14I wanted to be
45:15A professional singer
45:16And I've done that
45:18And I'm still doing it
45:20And I'm still loving it
45:21So it's
45:23It's been a godsend
45:25You know
45:26That I've done
45:28What I wanted to do
45:29It's a wonderful feeling
45:32That I want to do
45:33That I wanted to do
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