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Tom Jones admits homophobia when he was younger
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Legendary Welsh singer Tom Jones wouldn’t have a career if he hadn’t got over his homophobia.
The It’s Not Unusual singer said, when he was first met producer Joe Meek in 1964, that it ‘threw him off’ that he was gay.
Speaking to The Big Issue, he said: ‘I was ready for most aspects of the music industry but when I met the producer 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.’
But Tom didn’t do that, and instead confronted Meek away from his band mates.
‘I said, you’re not one of those 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?
‘But then I got into it and I realised no, it just so happened that the first guy to record me was a homosexual producer. Once I got over the shock of that, and realised it wasn’t true, most people were normal.
‘Well, I shouldn’t put it like that. Homosexuals are normal, it’s not that they’re not normal. It’s just that they are what they are.’
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