United Kingdom, Oct. 30 -- Sir Tom Jones has recalled how his father kept working down the coal mines when he found stardom.

The 85-year-old singer has confessed that he was anguished to discover that his dad Thomas Woodward was still working in the coal mines of the Rhondda Valley in Wales after he achieved his first chart-topper with It's Not Unusual in 1965.

Speaking in the BBC series In My Own Words, Tom recalled: "I had a new Jaguar, I had a new house, and I went back to Wales, because I would go back whenever I could.

"One Sunday night, I'd been out with my father and when we got home, my mother was cutting sandwiches for him. I said, 'Where are you going?' He said, 'I'm going to work, I'm on the night shift.' I said, 'You can't ...