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Tom Jones<\/span>\u00a0showed no signs of slowing down as he touched down in\u00a0Brisbane<\/span>\u00a0on Saturday, ahead of his gig at the\u00a0Byron Bay<\/span>\u00a0Blues Festival.<\/p>\n

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The music legend, 85, is touring around Australia after revealing last year he has no plans to retire.<\/div>\n

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Tom looked a little tired as he walked through the terminal ahead of his performance at the BluesFest, which attracts more than 100,000 music lovers<\/p>\n

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The singer cut a casual figure in a black checked flannel shirt, jeans and a baseball cap for the flight.<\/div>\n

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Tom, who has been travelling around Australia and was in\u00a0Perth<\/span>\u00a0earlier this week, looked like he had been making the most of the sunshine as he sported a bronzed tan.<\/p>\n

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Tom Jones showed no signs of slowing down as he touched down in Brisbane on Saturday, ahead of his gig at the Byron Bay Blues Festival<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The music legend, 85, is touring around Australia after revealing last year he has no plans to retire<\/p>\n

He next performs at A Day On The Green in NSW on Saturday, then has shows in Adelaide and Melbourne.<\/p>\n

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The Sex Bomb hitmaker will also appear at various dates through March and April including the Newcastle Entertainment Centre.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

He finishes up with a show in Sydney at the Aware Super Theatre on April 4th.<\/p>\n

Last year, Tom\u00a0insisted he has\u00a0no plans to retire from performing<\/span>\u00a0anytime soon.<\/p>\n

The music legend admitted while he can\u2019t dance around the stage as much as he did in past shows, he\u2019ll only retire if his voice starts to fail.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Tom revealed he\u2019d\u00a0had his second hip replacement surgery after having<\/span>\u00a0his first done back in 2017.<\/p>\n

It came after he admitted he had to sit down during a majority of his shows, and could only perform around four of his songs while standing up.<\/p>\n

\u2018The only way [I would retire] is if I couldn\u2019t sing any more. If something went wrong with my vocal ability, I wouldn\u2019t want to go on not in full strength. I wouldn\u2019t like to shortchange an audience,\u2019 he told\u00a0Metro.<\/p>\n

Being old, you can\u2019t do what you used to do. I mean, I can\u2019t walk around like I used to but I wouldn\u2019t want to now. When you\u2019re young you\u2019re full of p*** and vinegar and you\u2019re giving it plenty. Now I concentrate more on singing than I do anything else.<\/p>\n

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Tom looked a little tired as he walked through the terminal ahead of his performance at the BluesFest, which attracts more than 100,000 music lovers<\/p>\n

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\u2018I\u2019m still able to get up there and do it live. I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s a good question because I\u2019ve never really thought about that \u2026 If people want to go and see that then fine.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tom added that if he was ever unable to perform in the future, he\u2019d be open to the idea of a hologram to replace him, though he hopes that\u2019s \u2018nowhere near.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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