Tom Jones Recruits U2, Sings Springsteen For New Album

Las Vegas staple Tom Jones will release his first U.S. album of new material in 15 years, as 24 Hours hits stores on November 25th. Just as Jones' 2002 Reload (which did not get a domestic release) featured a plethora of guests, Jones will welcome U2's Bono and the Edge on one song this time around, as the U2 duo wrote and perform on the new song "Sugar Daddy," which was written specifically for Jones. Over half of the new material was co-written by Jones himself and produced by Future Cut, who have also produced for Lily Allen, Kate Nash and Estelle. The album will also feature Jones covering Bruce Springsteen's Devils & Dust cut "The Hitter," as well as covers of songs by Tommy James & the Shondells, Pumali Panthers and Carla Thomas. "It's all very well just singing songs, but for this record I really wanted to get properly personal," Jones says. "I've been getting reflective recently, looking over my journey through life, and I wanted to make something that was all about me, my stories, to get that down in song. In other words, you listen to this album and you get the real me."

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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