JONES' ALCOHOL LIMITS SAVED HIM FROM AN EARLY GRAVE

Last updated: Thursday, October 30, 2008

JONES' ALCOHOL LIMITS SAVED HIM FROM AN EARLY GRAVE

Veteran crooner TOM JONES credits his self-restraint with alcohol with helping him to survive the hellraising days of his youth.

TOM JONES

The Delilah singer was close pals with the late King of Rock 'n' Roll Elvis Presley, who died at the age of 42 after suffering from drug addiction and a string of health problems.

But Jones avoided the pitfalls of fame in the 1960s and '70s by limiting himself to only one form of excess.

He tells Uncut magazine, "(It's) very simple. I like to drink - I'm not a bloody alcoholic but I love good wine and beer and British pubs. But I won't drink to the point where I hurt my instrument, my voice.

"I never bothered with drugs because I saw what was happening. Cocaine and all that s**t, you'd see entertainers in the toilet - it didn't look attractive to me. And smoking joints smelled bloody foul."

Source: WENN

| Thursday, October 30, 2008

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