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Dizzee Rascal seeks the voice (of Tom Jones)
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 13 June 2013
Tom Jones’ flirtation with hip hop a decade ago may have been shortlived, but that doesn’t mean he can never return to the genre. And Dizzee Rascal is the man to lure him back. Or so he hopes.
That said, Dizzee completely failed to do it on his latest album, telling The Daily Star that he’d wanted to get Jones on the record, but it didn’t quite work out. He said: “Tom Jones is the original gangsta so one day I’ll get him. I was just lucky other people’s schedules meant they could do it. I’m blessed to have Robbie Williams, Tinie Tempah and Sean Kingston on there”.
Dizzee Rascal’s fifth album, ‘The Fifth’, is due for release on 1 Jul. As well as Williams, Tempah and Kingston, the record also features producers Warren Okay ‘Oak’ Felder, Andrew ‘Pop’ Wansell, Jean-Baptiste Kouame, Ryan Buendia, Damien Leroy III, Oliver Goldstein, MJ Cole and RedOne, plus vocals from Teddy Sky, Bun B, Trae The Truth, Angel, Will.i.am, Calvin Harris and Jessie J. But not Tom Jones.
