London Fashion Week + Sex After 70? + Quiz Answers + John Barry + Bride Link + Tarzan Wants Dame

Copyright: Daily Mail

Golden girls Joan Collins and Dame Shirley Bassey bring a grin to London Fashion Week

This latest picture was taken at Julien Macdonald’s catwalk show, as covered in blog dated 18 September

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Click here to read the report by Duncan Robertson in the Daily Mail

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This is cut from the Telegraph’s article:

Those two veterans of sparkle and spangle, Dame Shirley Bassey and Joan Collins, enjoyed front-row treatment at Julien Macdonald’s show. Joan was dressed to impress in a metallic trench by Carmen Marc Valvo and Dame Shirley wore a black leather biker jacket over one of Macdonald’s sequinned shifts.

“Sex after 70?” mused the latter, who recently wowed a new generation of fans in crystal-encrusted wellies and another Macdonald frock at Glastonbury. “Maybe, if it hit me like a thunderbolt!” Her secret for eternal youth? “Think young; look after yourself… and a little Botox.”

Copyright: Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at London Fashion Week. Telegraph.co.uk

If you want the whole (Non-DSB) report click here

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A couple of days ago there was a fun quiz here. I didn’t know the answers. But some fans made an educated stab!

Estimated about 1968

Estimated about 1962

The gentleman on the left is John Barry

Thanks to the fans who identified him in this 1960′s photo with Shirley and David Jacobs

Here’s a link to the Wikipedia page about this wonderful composer, whose cinematic style – often with sublime strings – is instantly recognisable

Remember those swirling strings on You Only Live Twice? Sampled by Robbie Williams on a single? That’s pure John Barry

This is what John looks like now (b: 3 November 1933):-

Taken from this 2006 interview in the Telegraph

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Composers

While we’re looking at the composer of Goldfinger and many other great songs, here’s a link to Never The Bride’s MySpace page. Nikki and Catherine wrote The Living Tree and have a new song being considered by DSB

Click here to visit the bride

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Gossip

This is from The Times a few days go:-

“Lord Heseltine, the former Deputy Prime Minister, is rumoured to have sounded out Dame Shirley Bassey to see if she would perform at his 75th birthday party at his home at Henley-on-Thames in March. Big spender, eh?”

Michael Heseltine was born in Swansea, Wales 21 March 1933

He was ranked 170th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2004, with an estimated wealth of £240 million

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