Tom Jones hits the top of the charts around the world in 1968 with the controversial murder-ballad “Delilah”

In order for today’s society to be able to think and analyze the fact that a 1968 song that trivializes the idea of murdering a woman can still remain so popular today, we have to put up in perspective history and the 1960’s and 1970’s society as well as the once very trendy “murder ballad” genre, and “Delilah” is despite all the controversy one of the greatest Pop songs ever made

Tom Jones turns 84 today

Tom Jones career has now spanned six decades, and he has literally done everything in the music business, from hit singer to Variety shows to Las Vegas appearances and even as a coach in The Voice on recent years. Today the “Delilah” singer turns 84

Tom Jones gets the first of his many No.1 hits on this day in 1965 with “It’s Not Unusual”

Tom Jones was one of the biggest hitmakers on Pop music. His first No.1 “It’s Not Unusual” wasn’t originally written him, find out who declined the song in his favor

When Bruce Dickinson leads a crowd of Metalheads into singing along to Tom Jones’s 1968 classic “Delilah”, you know there is nothing else he cannot do

The Iron Maiden frontman may well be the only person in the world capable of leading a crowd of Metalheads into singing along to “Delilah” enthusiastically