Why Is It That Sir Tom Not Naming Names?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/868344/Sir-Tom-Jones-admits-sexually-abused-start-career-The-Voice-Harvey-Weinstein

[jackthehat]

Let me guess......is it because he's a bloke and 'got over it'?

Although, living in a glass-house himself......

[Hopkirk]

Libel and slander laws

[Old_Geezer]

Proof, hassle, no desire to sue.

[melv16]

He did name a famous record producer that took a shine to him in a documentary some years ago.

[Islay]

Why do you think he is not naming them?

[-Talbot-]

Do you think Weinstein is being hard done by, AOG?

[237SJ]

Why should he name names? He's just saying that that sort of thing goes on in the music industry - he's not making a formal complaint

[ummmm]

Putting it simply...he doesn't want to.

[snags]

Its not unusual.

[bednobs]

well as the start of his career was probably over 50 years ago, perhaps he can't remember the name!

[melv16]

Telstar..look up the producer.

[Peter Pedant]

// In 1963 Meek worked with a then little-known singer Tom Jones, then the lead vocalist of Tommy Scott & the Senators. Meek recorded seven tracks with Jones and took them to various labels in an attempt to get a record deal, with no success. Two years later after Jones' worldwide hit "It's Not Unusual" in 1965, Meek was able to sell the tapes he had recorded with Jones to Tower (USA) and Columbia (UK).// wiki
as chubby brown might say - who the h+++ is Joe Meek?

You teenie ABers are too young to remember the Payola scandal that the News of the Scrows uncovered in the seventies - sleep with me and I'll record you

and the producers of Top of the Slops saying to little teeny bops " dja wanna be a star. I can make you a star - you'll dance on Top of the Slops!" - They never got Mr Big - the man with the mike - Mickey Most - probably because he er didnt.
Huge entry in wiki on his proteges

[Peter Pedant]

so a lot of over fifties are looking at headlines

shock! horror! Harvey Weinstein - groped showered and did other things to would-be starlets....

and think - um yeah - they all knew what the deal was before they went into the casting room

Charge of the Light Brigade - didnt some wag say that the sex scenes were replays of what had gone on the casting couch ?

[Peter Pedant]

Richard Leech said of Noel Coward:
( Richard who? bit part actor in the black and white dickens adaptations on the beeb in the sixties)...

"it took a long time for me to realise that he wasnt after my body. He was spending a lot of time giving good advice to a young author who never made it."

[mikey4444]

Joe Meek was a homosexual, when it was illegal for him to be so. It is likely that Meek may have been the person to whom Jones is referring. ::::

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Meek#Personal_life