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I was thinking that night about elvis the day that he died i was thinking that night about elvis as aay that he died country boy that combed his red hair he put on the shirt his mother made and he went on the air girlook it like a chorus and he shook it like a harlem queen he shook it like a midnight rambler, baby like you never seen, like you seen een, never i was thinking that night about elvis the day that he died day that he died i was thinking that night about elvis, the day that he died, day that he died how he took it all out of blackandwhite grabbed his wand in the other hand and he held on tight he shook it like a hurricane he shook it like to make it break and he shook it like a holy roller, baby , his souloul at stake at stake i was thinking that night about elvis died, day thate he died i was thinking that night about elvis day that he died, day that he died alone in long decline thinking how happy john henry was when he lay down and died when he shook it and he rang like silver he shook it and he shined like gold he shook it and he beat that steam drill, baby bless my sould, bless my soul he shook it and he beat that steam drill, baby bless my soul, whats wrong with . Charlie i am pleased to have certain tom jones at the table for the first time and what an honor it is. Began when you heard rock around the clock . Sir tom thats when i first heard rock n roll. But i was first saying long before that. I was born in 1940 and my mother said i could sing before the walk. Sir tomcharlie did you have tuberculosis . Sir tom i had tb when i was 12. I was bedridden. For the first year. The second year i could get up one hour per day. I stayed warm. When they discovered i had it, there were these tb hospitals in scotland and switzerland. Charlie sanatoriums . Sir tom exactly. My mother said if you sent him there he will never get well. Charlie stay here with me and i will make him well. Sir tom and she did. We lived in a threestory house. They put me in a room on the middle floor. My mother was up and down stairs all day because the doctor said, you cannot worry about anything. Stress is the worst thing. Shehe took it to heart and nursed me through it. Charlie you have said an interesting thing to me. You said that to be great in music, you have to have young ears. What do you mean young ears . Sir tom to keep them open. There are some people who have been in the business as long as i have and they say it is not like it used to be. It has all changed. It hasnt really. You still have to get in front of a microphone and sing. I have always kept my ears open. I have always been interested in new sounds and new singers. To know what is going on. I dont want to be an oldie burt t goodie, i want to be still in the ring. I am proud of the records i have made the cut at the time they were made to very good records. Up. Stand i dont want to live in the past. I dont want to go on the road and say i will do the greatest hits forever. Charlie how do you take care of your voice . Sir tom get plenty of water and get eight hours sleep if possible. Go easy on the alcohol. I never got into drugs. I never fancied any of that. But, alcohol, you have to be careful. Everything in moderation. Charlie how many dates do you do for your . Sir tom i used to do do you do per year . Sir tom i used to do a lot more than i do now. I used to do about 200 per year. Some years have more than others, but i did a European Tour for june, july, and august which was packed for three months. I am always singing somewhere. I love to sing. Charlie are you happiest when you are singing . Sir tom definitely. I dont know what life is like without it. I have always sung since i was a child. Take that away, i would not know what to do. Charlie who has influenced you the most . Sir tom a lot of people. Mostly american roots music. Jackson was the first gospel singer i heard. I went to a presbyterian chapel. Weve to do a song called the old rugged cross. I always loved that song and i heard Mahalia Jackson sing it and then i thought why dont we do it like them . She must have read gofundme, and becausebbed off on me, in school they would say why are you singing this like a negro spiritual . I said i do not know what that is, i am just singing it like i feel it. I must have heard it. Jerry lee lewis says i was born with what i got. Sir tom were you influenced by charlie were you influenced by presley . Sir tom definitely. When rock n roll came, elvis was doing what i was doing basically. He was reassuringly. Charlie where did delilah come from . Sir tom it came from a man named les reed. I had been friendly with him. He did the arrangement on the green green grass of home. He took it from the country. And spread it out. Les has been a friend of mine for a long time. I was looking for a new song he came up with delilah. Charlie little tape. Roll tape. Delilahmy my why why why delilah . See that you are no good for me but i was lost like a slave that no man could free charlie how many undergarments did you get thrown at you for delilah . Sir tom quite a few. Get from the you sheer sense of saying to the world that this is one of the sex symbols of our time . Sir tom the initial thing with the underwear was the copacabana. I was standing on the same level as the people sitting at the tables. They were giving the table napkins because i was sweating. This woman stood up and lifted it like this. And i said, be careful you do not catch a cold. Clubs int workermans south wales, whatever happened to try to turn it to your advantage. Working mens clubs. Coal miners. Bottle,meone throws a you try to catch it and say thank you very much and drink a drop. But whatever. When that happened, i did something and handed it to. But it taught up with cash i did some thing and handed it back. But it caught up with me. People would say there is tom jones, throw underwear at him. But it backfired. Gnet. Ame like a nickerma i never meant it to be. Charlie what is your biggest passion outside of music . Sir tom that is a good question. I dont really have. Music is my life. I know it is an old cliche. Sir tom Presley Presley came over to you once and said, how do you sing like that . Sir tom yes, when i first met him. It was at paramount studios. I went to talk about a movie and they said elvis is here and he would like to say hello. I didnt know he existed i didnt know that he knew i existed. Elvis was walking toward me singing, and i thought, if the boys back home could see me now. When i used to sing in pubs and clubs, i used to sing a lot of Elvis Presley songs. I said i will meet elvis oneday. They would say, tom, we love you, but please. I said i am telling you. So when i was shaking his hand, all of these guys faces were flashing in front of me. 1965 upfriends from until about two years before he died, because he started pushing everyone away from him. Charlie american blues had a big influence. Sir tom definitely. Listened60s, we all to roots music. Cocker, the, joe caulker, th beatles, the stones. All of us of a certain age. I am the same age as john lennon. We were all listening to that and wanting to do it. Then it came about like bb king said, if it were not for the british rock bands, the blues might have died. But they brought it and sold it back to america. Charlie you are also on the same wavelength as Frank Sinatra. You were friends. Sir tom yes, but when i was in vegas at the same time as Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, i recorded an album called from the heart. It was a bunch of standards that i did with big arrangements. Elvis had bought it, and i said what you think . And he said, we dont do that, tom. We leave that to frank. He said we. ,dont go there. I said, i like a lot of standards. But he said, dont go there, dont recorded. When i would see Frank Sinatra, he would say forget that rock n roll. You are a great jazz singer. You could really get into just. I said into jazz. I was in a position where Frank Sinatra was trying to pull me one way and Elvis Presley another. What a position to be in. Being pulled by two of the greatest singers ever. Charlie what was it about sinatra . Sir tom think it was the tone of his voice. He had a demanding tone. And he was a very good singer. I learned to appreciate Frank Sinatra later on. Rock n roll in the 50s hit me hard. When that came in, i thought all the other stuff is oldfashioned. When you get older, and you realize more about music, than when you are a teenager, then Frank Sinatra started to make a lot of sense. I started to watch a lot of his old movies. There was one song when he did Old Man River in a musical. You hear how great his voice was. He had a quality, and he set a trend. Singers after that wanted to sound like Frank Sinatra. Charlie in the 80s, things calm down a bit . Sir tom for me . Well, what happened was i got complacent. Not meeting to. Because of the success in the 1960s and 1970s, i was playing arenas in america. Throughout the 1980s, trying to get songs but they were not coming my way. I thought, maybe they wont. Maybe i will just wait until a song comes. Playing places that maybe i should not have been in. Thats why i started in massachusetts, playing in a place with a head weddings in the daytime and singers at night. My son was working the lights. Mark, trying to get the spotlight to the chandeliers that were still hanging from the afternoon. My son made me aware. He said, do you really want to play these places . And i said, yeah, youre right. He made me aware. Charlie so you did what . Sir tom when my manager, gordon mills there was a musical written by two british writers. They sent over these songs to l. A. They said they had been looking for a singer to sing the songs. They had gone to the opera singers, but they were too operatic. They tried with pop singers, but they did not have the range. So it has all come down to you. You are the only one. So, i was listening to it, and meanwhile, gordon mills had cancer and he died. And my son and my daughterinlaw just took over. My son had been working with me and knew me better than anybody else. We listened to the songs and mark said, why dont we bring and mikeiegela nd to l. A. And try them. Charlie you are a family man . Sir tom of you. Oh yeah. Together wife and i have been years. I was 16 and she was 70. Charlie how did she feel about all that sex symbol stuff . Sir tom she knew i was aiming for that. When i said i have got to go to london, i met gordon mills. She knew that he was in show business and could do something. Charlie you call this open over the top and you call this over the top and back. Meeting . Sir tom i went over the top into those comfortable areas, and said wait a minute, lets get back to recording properly. So now i am back. Especially with these albums i am doing now. They are more like what i was doing in wales. Back to brass tacks. With a resume Rhythm Section singing blues, country, gospel flavored songs. Now i am doing it. Charlie this is a montage of you. Roll tape. Golly miss molly every time i think about the bright lights i think about you day older andher deeper in debt like a johnny with a ball headed sally that is the life. Sir tom i am still having it. [laughter] charlie who took this picture . Sir tom i cannot remember the photographer, but it is a recent one. The one in the back is 1964. Charlie how old were you . Sir tom 24. Charlie you are 75 . Yeah. M charlie great to see you. Sir tom i watch you, and my wife. Big fence. Charlie steve martin and 80 burquelle are here. Steve martin called it an accident. A followup to their grammy awardwinning debut album. Here is the trailer for so familiar. Got my four wheels on the pavement if you look you will find me gone got the title to the metal pedal to the metal my radio on got you in the Rearview Mirror that dark roadn the road you are on i have been there i will goe there anywhere but i wont go back charlie i am pleased to have steve martin and edie at this table. Congratulations. You said this was a giant accident. What did you mean . Steve i meant that it was not by design. It was kind of a coincidence, and we have had such Great Fortune come from it. Not talking financially, but artistically. It was just a couple bits of serendipity that edie ran into me at a party, and said i would like to write a song with you. I had never written a song with anyone, nodding going, yeah, sure. Said i have to call her. Charlie before you got together, did you send her something . Steve the first time we didnt. I just came to your house. Nejraedie we were both so shy. I could not believe he was showing me the tune. I thought the suggestion would float away like feathers on the wind. Steve we didnt really know how to Work Together or how it was done. I would play the song and she would walk around with it. We were both a little tense, and she said lets just record and i will spend time with it. So i recorded it and she sent this beautiful tune which is in our physical. Open our musical. The sun has got to shine. Charlie tell me about it. Steve it is hard to discuss. It is opening at the kennedy center, that it is coming to broadway in march. The music is based around the type of music we write. We agreed that we both love musicals, and we grew up on them. One of the great assets were strong melodies. That is kind of the way we think that we write or try to write. We found a story am i talking too much . [laughter] charlie what were you surprised about with steve . Steveedie his heart. I knew he was a smart guy, and Everybody Knows how funny he is. Me a version of the script very early on and he had written the most beautiful scene. Had so much heart and love that i was moved. Up the phone pick and said i cannot believe you have written this. Did not mean to be insulting, of course. It was the most gorgeous thing. Steve he and i are edie and i are alike. I dont think either of us is crazy all stop we get along and dont make crazy. We get along and dont make demands. Charlie what was your training . Edie i dont have any training. [laughter] singing around the house. My mom singing around the house. She allowed for a house that was not shy. It was like a soundtrack to life. We were encouraged to sing along. Charlie what is the process for writing a song . Edie with steve i am invited inspired by his then joe track banjo track. Images settle in my subconscious when i listen to them. The music dictates how you will sing and in what key. Steve you also have many ways of writing songs. The way that we define it is one thing, but you can improvise a new song. Edie that is my favorite thing to do. Just Pay Attention to what is flowing through the consciousness. Charlie steve brings out the best in your . Steve and likewise. Edie thank you. Charlie how does that work . Because she understands what you are capable of . Steve here is what the best collaboration is. Where the other person is doing something you cannot do as well. Edies lyrics she has written the lyrics for the show, and i think they are stunning. First of all, when you write a musical, when you write a regular song, one person is singing, but in a musical you have several people singing in various characters. She has excelled at that. Opinions coming back and forth. You have annexed for challenge in a musical an extra challenge in a musical that the song does not reiterate what came in the scene before. The song has to reveal new information, new story, new thoughts. Charlie you have said that he does not write stock banjo parts. Edie they are not banjo parts like i have ever heard before. There are very melodic. It is not what i would expect. Way. Ays in an original t. At is how i hear it is that charlie you say it is not bluegrass. It is americana. Steve bluegrass is a very genre which runya generally means banjo, mandaoli, bass. , violin. Ours swings a different way. I dont define it as bluegrass at all, just music. Charlie this is you and 80 edie performing the grammywinning song love has, for you. You. Or she had a job with the men from the bank family tried to give that child away tried to erase what you done when she held that sweet boy in her arms none of their words meant a thing when she held that sweet boy in her arms she heard the quiet angel sing love, love, love has come for you performing in front of an audience, singing and playing the banjo, is it the upe sensation has stand comedy . Steve in that show, im so glad we taped it, we toured that show for several years. It was consummate changing. And glad constantly changing. I am glad we have some kind of record. But there is a lot of comedy in that show. Im glad i do not have to do 1. 5 hours a standup. I get to break it up with songs, make jokes with the band, make a joke with edie. It is a relaxing way to work. Charlie this is a clip of wont go back. I have been there i have done that i will go anywhere t i wont go back i have been there i have done that i will go anywhere but i wont go back Never Never Never going back back never never going never going back you once said about the banjo, if you are sitting at home playing and your spouse seinfeldlook, jerry is doing an evening of original songs for the basoon. Steve i forgot about that. Charlie you are past that . Steve i have been playing for 50 years. Charlie why the banjo . Steve from the first time that i heard it, i loved it. I loved it for several reasons. It has this ability to be played at high speed, hard driving, fast speed. What i really was interested in it for was its capacity for melancholy. It is a very american sound. Copeland never used it, but he didnt need to. I love a banjo with strings and it is an emotive instrument. It has gone through a huge complex history. We are supposed to be together i know i feel it way down deep in my soul we are never meant to be a part i keep you here inside of my heart i always have always will always always always will i always have always will always always always will we are supposed to be together its true i have had my doubts but not about you we are not meant to be a part i love you now i have from the start i always have always will always always always will i always have always will always always always will i always have always will always always always will i always have always will will always always charlie we are pleased to have ed sheeren here. The video for his single has been viewed over 730 million times on youtube. He has shared the stage with musical royalty like elton john, beyonce, and the rolling stones. Trailer for jumpers for goal posts. [applause] i will tell you a little secret. Every wish i have made comes true. I wished to play wembley. Now it has come to it and reality hits. 240,000 people. This is my first headline stadium show. When you play guitar and start on the pub circuit, your dreams dont stretch that far. Armse me into your loving this is the most important milestone so far. Real people, buying real tickets, to sit with all these other people to watch me play. [inaudible] [applause] show, then went jay zizza with an and beyonce, then took them to the pub. Charlie you are i dont know how to say it other than a phenomenon. How would you characterize your experience . Ethoshave always had an with working harder than anyone else i admire and respect, and trying to be nice. Dad always told me to choose someone you admire and to work harder than and be nicer than them. So when i signed, i saw that james blunt had sold however many of back to bedlam. So i took the diary of everything he did that year, and doubled it. We did everything he did and twice as much. We sold half as much, but on this record we sold more. Charlie other than hard work, what else is at the core of this . Are you writing lyrics people connect to . Ed i dont know. I have only ever written songs from the heart. I dont see the point of making music if it is not an expression of self or a form of therapy. If i have a bad day, i want to write a song. I dont want to write it to have a hit, i want to write it to make me feel better. If has never been about the audience or pleasing people. It has just been about myself and my love for music. I guess that has come across. Charlie wembley. This was three concerts over three days. Wembley stadium. Stadium. Ed [laughter] it was interesting charlie its not a pub. Stadium. Ed it was difficult to cover hand. I dont play with the band. I use a sample pedal. Even an arena i thought i could not do an arena, but when i did it, and it was fine, i thought we might as well try wembley. The worst that could happen is fail but you still sold when the. Wembley. Pets what everyone else does. That is what everyone else does. Charlie how many people were there . Ed 87,000 every night. Charlie 87,000. Ed it is a big old stadium. If you fail, you have not lost you achieve, if the possibilities are endless. Control of everything that i do. If i want to go off on a tangent to a gig, i dont need to look around and make an signals. Or if i mess up, i can rectify it without anyone else worrying about it. I will definitely have a band at some point the thing people say to me is they like that i do not have a band. So why change it . Charlie what is the biggest challenge now . Ed carrying on the momentum. To get up to a stadium level for any artist is kind of the peak, but the challenge from there is staying at that level. To remain at the stadium level. To keep releasing records. Not necessarily hit, but connect with people. I have never been worried about my record selling millions of copies, but i have been in tent on writing songs that come in tent on writing songs that come from me. Than they will come to the shows. The show is always the end goal. I see the album as a commercial to the show. By the album, download the album, however you listen and then come to the show. Charlie are artists getting fair treatment in a world of spotify and apple music . All the downloading of music . Ed i dont want to be a spokesman for anything. Spotifylaying live, so allows me to play large venues around the world. Norway you cannot buy a record in norway. Norway is just modify. If you dont just spotify. If you dont have it on spotify, no one will know your music unless they rip it off youtube. I think if you make a record and go out and tour 95 of my income comes from live. Charlie that is true of most artists today. Ed it is, but live separates it from who is meant to do it from who is not. If you cannot play an instrument or sing live, you should not be a musician. Charlie [laughter] success words, if your is based on technology and people ed its just it is different things. Really enjoyi it. Someone like taylor, when you see her show live, it is a spectacle. The songs come to life. There are lots of things going on, but it is still at the core music. She is someone who sells a phenomenal out of tickets. If you cannot sell tickets because you do not have a good life show then you should not. Charlie what happens in the life show . Ed i never walk on as a presence. And one of the first things i say is, my job is to entertain you, and your job is to be entertained. Like wrapping them in and saying, i am going to lose my voice and sweat if you are willing to do the same. Charlie kind of a Bruce Springsteen approach. Ed i have been influenced by many people. I watched a coldplay dvd numerous times and have taken little tricks that chris martin does with the crowd. Even it if it is just, sing this part here. One thing that i learned quite early on my friend went to go see u2 and they were singing streets have no name, and he was in the front row and at the chorus bono goes, now you sing. And my friend was like, no. I paid to see you. Now every time i play, i make sure i do the whole song. Sing along happens. I give as much as i can, and then you do the singalong. Charlie do the tattoos tell a story . Ed i am a very strange person. I am quite eccentric at times. These tattoos can be viewed by someone is quite an eccentric thing. A bit odd. Charlie that is why i asked the question. Ed every tattoo relates to something important to me. This one is by henri matis. Of a mother and child. Boughtthe first thing i with a paycheck from my mom, a drawing of mother and child. These three boxing gloves i sold out Madison Square garden three times. Hegranddad was a boxer, always said when you make it in america cannot you play Madison Square garden. This one from my granddad who was irish. This from my first take in canada first gig in canada. There is lots of stuff. Go,ll relates to people what are you going to look like when you are 80, and i think i will look awesome. Charlie your life story will be there. Ed you will have your grandkid on your lap pointing and say that is when i went to do this and that. I like it. I have not got anything on my body that is pointless. You know how people get like ruins an tribal tattoos, just as it looks cool. That when you grow up when the great. People may think that i will look very sad, saggy, ugly, colorful old man, but i will be very happy. Charlie did you have a new one recently . Ed yes. A lion. Charlie why . Ed that was for the wednesday stadium show. Its the biggest stadium you can play in england, and no one ever does it. The england crest. You have an eagle, we have three lions. The england show would be three lions on the shirt. I wanted to get a lion tattooed on me. The chest would be a very proud place to put it, a centerpiece of all the things i have done in my life. A lot of people think it is odd, but i really like it. You dont have to see it every day, i like it and you do not have to see it. Charlie the documentary. For all posts. Ed americans dont get this because you do not call sweaters jumpers, but in england when you play football in the park, you take off your sweater and use it as a goal post. Venue me, playing this like 1500 capacity, that was the first goal. Then you move it. To wembley. But now that wembley has happened, the goalposts are empty. Charlie you said that you never thought about playing wembley because it seemed out of reach. Charlie when you move the goalposts, to see ed when you move the goalposts, you see the next one. Charlie are you Business Savvy . Ed i have some savvy in terms of mrs. But i do not own stocks or anything. Charlie but you know that you want to do stuff that is good. Because your core belief is, if it is good it will sell. Ed no. If it has heart, it will sell. Anything that makes anyone feel something will sell. Theis why films like fault in our stars, the notebook, saving private ryan. Anything that kenexa with human beings that connects with human beings will be good. That is why adele has had the biggest album because it is pain pouring out. Charlie do you have pain in your . Ed i am a happy person because i get the pain out in the songs. My pain might be different to someone else. That might not be on the scale of someone else, but it still creates music. Charlie im impressed that you go to africa to look for new sounds. Ed i know a lot of very talented musicians from that side of the world. The thing i like about it is, there is no other reason to make music in ghana, other than to make music. You go to l. A. , and everyone is looking for a piece. That one publishing or to play in your band. When you go anywhere else in the world where there is not an infrastructure, like hollywood, or grammys, or voting, they make music for the hell of it. They make music because they love it. I want to get back to that because i have been surrounded by so many people who make money off me. I want to sit in a room with people that just want to make music. Charlie thank you for coming. When your links dont work egs dont work like they used to before still smile from your cheeks darling, i will be loving you til were 70 heart, my still my heart at 23 im thinking about how people fall in love in Mysterious Ways maybe just a touch of the hand me i fall in love with you every single day i just want to tell you i am armse me into your loving kissed me under the light of the stars place your head on my beating heart found love right where we are when my hair is almost gone and my memory fades and the crowds wont remember my name when my hands dont play the strings the same way i know that you will still love me ney ever in your smile for my mind and memory im thinking bout how people fall in love in Mysterious Ways baby it is all part of the plan mistakes keep making hoping that you will understand , take me into your loving arms kiss me under the light of the stars placed her head on my bidding place your head on my beating heart maybe we found love right where we are thank you very much. 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