Despite cheating on his wife with scores of women, Sir Tom always maintained that Linda was his soulmate.
From the day they met at school in Treforest, Pontypridd, he claimed to have known she was the one for him.
Sir Tom described her as “the most important thing in my life” and an “unbelievable woman” in a 2006 Daily Mail article.
But a decade later, Linda died after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, at the age of 75.
Her death was roughly one-year before Sir Tom and Linda would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
Tom Jones and wife Linda were married for 59 years before she died in 2016 (Image: GETTY)
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The Welsh singer has sold more than 100 million records during five-and-a-half decades in the music industry. During that time, Sir Tom landed 36 hits in the UK Top 40 chart including It’s Not Unusual, Delilah and Sex Bomb. The Voice star, 80, also brushed shoulders with a number of unforgettable vocalists and admitted he once faced a dilemma over whose advice to follow.
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The legendary singer, 80, has savoured an illustrious five-and-a-half-decade career and received scores of accolades, most notably including a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In recent years, Sir Tom has been a permanent fixture on the ITV talent contest The Voice, where he has mentored a new generation of musical talent. But unearthed accounts reveal the ‘It’s Not Unusual’ crooner’s determination to become an international hit was influenced by nearly dying when he was younger.