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It might prove a stroke of good fortune in the end, to be let go from what amounts to arguably the highlight of cerebral boredom for many, listening to televised Karaoke aimed at those to whom many will be forgotten and dismissed in the search for vanity in the three or four minutes it takes to sing a song. For true mastery, for longevity and absolute superstardom, Tom Jones was and more than likely will always be, a true voice in which music just turns to velvet within. If being released from a television show can have a golden glint attached to it, then the Welsh maestro’s latest album Long Lost Suitcase is a room full of liberated bullion.