Tom Jones International

Hi, All:

We each met Tom in 1978. Here are the photos.

Do you have photos from *your* first time? Send them to us and we’ll post them.

Ursula & Ellen

In an interview with Bono, *Rolling Stone* editor Jann Wenner discussed the U2 frontman’s musical influences. Tom was among them:

Read more at [RollingStone.com](http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/8651280/u2?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple3)

*When Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber were writing their hit musical, they were stuck for a name. As told by Michael Coveney on pbs.org:*

>Tim had spotted a picture of Tom Jones with a caption that read: “Tom Jones, the World’s Number One Superstar,” and he thought, “Why not stick that in? And of course, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ is a brilliant title. We were a bit shocked about what we’d done, just as Andrew had been a bit worried about ‘Joseph [and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]‘ being too slangy. But of course, it was its being precisely that — slangy and funny — that made it work.”

Read more at PBS.org