Sir Tom Jones, legend, national treasure and international superstar was honoured last night with the prestigious annual Music Industry Trusts Award sponsored by Ingenious, PPL, PRS for Muisc and Spotify, In recognition of his outstanding contribution to music. Sir Tom Jones was presented with the accolade by Award-winning film director Tim Burton.
The BRIT School Choir kicked off proceedings with a memorable Tom Jones medley and continuing the Welsh theme for the evening Cerys Matthews gave a very special performance in honour of tonight’s Award recipient. A specially made tribute film about his life was shown as he collected his Music Industry Trusts’ Award featuring tribute messages from friends and contemporaries, including Priscilla Presley who said, “They would sing songs together and jam together, for Elvis to do that he really had to have a lot of trust in someone because he admired Tom's voice so much.” Kelly Jones, Don Black, Paul Anka and many more also passed on their congratulations.
Closing the evening on a true high, Tom Jones took to the stage with Stereophonics front man Kelly Jones and Cerys Matthews to perform some of his greatest hits.
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