Sir Tom Jones has revealed one song has stuck with him following his wife’s death in 2016 – and it’s one of Bob Dylan’s most famous. Jones lost his wife Melinda Rose Woodward, known as Lady Linda, to a “short but fierce” battle with cancer two years ago, after 59 years of marriage. She died in the Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles “surrounded by her husband and loved ones” according to a statement posted to Jones’ website. The singer has since revealed he is haunted by thoughts surrounding his wife due to the words of one song.
Jones revealed the one song which haunts him is Bob Dylan’s ‘What Good am I’, which now plagues him with guilt.
He said he questioned whether he was partly to blame for his wife’s death.
The song includes the lines: “What good am I, if I’m like all the rest? If I just turn away, when I see how you’re dressed?
“If I shut myself off, so I can’t hear you cry?”
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Sir Tom said to the Daily Mirror: “I was reading into the lyrics, thinking: ‘Jesus Christ, was I partly to blame? Should I have woken up before?
“You start to think: ‘What if I had forced her to go to the doctors?’ Because she didn’t go.
“You think: ‘S***, maybe I should have said she had to.’ So that song is very touching.
“That song is the one I was scared of. She loved it.”
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Over the course of his marriage to Linda, Jones had engaged in a number of affairs with other women.
Despite this, the singer’s love for his wife appeared genuine, and he claimed to fall in love more than once wasn’t possible.
He once wrote he “never had that feeling for anyone else, I don’t think you can fall in love more than once”.
Linda remained generally out of the public eye, and allegedly once told a friend she had “never felt good enough” to be Sir Tom’s wife.
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Linda emigrated to the US long ago, while Jones continued to travel, and the two rarely saw each other, according to biographer Sean Smith.
He said: “Linda has her housekeeper and gardener, and sees more of them than anyone else.
“She hasn’t flown in years and is unlikely to come back to the UK again.
“When Tom’s in LA they are a retired couple in their 70s, having gentle drives and enjoying reading in the sun and TV, like a million other pensioners.”