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Old 22-10-2015, 07:53 PM #1
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Sir Tom Jones has been blasted by fans after suggesting that he believes homosexuals are not 'normal'.

The ageing crooner admitted he used to be prejudiced towards gay people when he first arrived in London - and that he was so uncomfortable in their company that he even contemplated returning to Wales.

He also said he struggled to accept his first-ever music producer, the late Joe Meek, because of his sexuality, and became paranoid about his own managers and whether they were gay or not.

In a clumsy interview with The Big Issue, the 75-year-old said: ‘I was ready for most aspects of the music industry but, when I met [him - Joe Meek], that threw me off a bit, because he was a homosexual.

‘I thought: “Wait a minute, is the London scene — the people who run British showbusiness — are there a lot of homosexuals involved here? Because, if so, I’m going back to Cardiff.”'

He added: ‘When I signed with Decca, and Peter Sullivan became my manager . . . I said: “You’re not one of these queer fellows, are you?” and he said: “What are you on about?”

'I became paranoid, you see. I wondered, was that required to make a hit record?’

Sir Tom goes on to express his relief at discovering that most men in the music business were, as he described it, ‘normal’.


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Being gay was bloody illegal and everyone thiught like this including ALL your relatives

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Because I can read and can see that the things mentioned were all mentioned using a past tense, equaling to him not feeling like that anymore, considering his age and when he first experienced London and the gay scene, it was still seen as abnormal by the majority of people, because it was illegal, it's not his fault he was born in that era, I'm not going to judge a person in today's world by thoughts they had in the past and have since changed.
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