More on Burke

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He got married, went to Italy. He did find his voice. Tom was 29 when he sang for the first time at Covent Garden. This was in 1919 and the start of his successful music career. Unfortunately Tom could not handle the fame. His eccentricity, his sensitivity, the anger he still felt about the poverty he experienced as a child, his fighting spirit. Also Tom had a deep, latent antagonistic loathing towards people of wealth and power. His mixed up emotional powder keg erupted on several occasions and helped to ruin his career. He was at the top for about 12 years. From the early 1930’s he began the slide downwards into obscurity.