article_snippet: For Tom has not lived a particularly secretive life.
article_snippet: Tom was a member of a band called The Senators, who weren’t going anywhere terribly fast.
article_snippet: Tom was already in Tom mid-20s.
article_snippet: For 20 years, until Gordon died of cancer, Tom always deferred to Tom expertise.
article_snippet: In return, Gordon did all Tom’s dirty work and sacked anyone who needed sacking.
article_snippet: No bow-tie was larger or fluffier than all Tom’s, no hips swivelled more suggestively.
article_snippet: Tom knew everyone and got on with nearly all of everyone, though Tom didn’t like it when John Lennon, with Tom characteristic Scouse wit, called Tom a ‘Welsh poof’.
article_snippet: Nonetheless, an artistic nadir of some sort was reached when Tom recorded five consecutive country albums in the early Eighties.
article_snippet: But was it making Tom happy?
article_snippet: Well, yes, but at the same time, Tom clearly needed to reconnect with the bluesier, rootsier music