Tom Jones: If you can get over that grief, if you can just see through it, time does heal

Earlier this year, Mr Jones, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, became the oldest man to top the UK album chart

Surrounded By Time, his 41st studio album, also gave him his fourth number one – and his first since 1999’s Reload. Picture: EMI/PA

Tom Jones has been much compared to Johnny Cash recently.

But what could the late grizzled country and western icon, dubbed the Man in Black, have in common with him – one of Wales’ finest pop exports and a polished former heartthrob.