ATP Masters Party in Monte Carlo.

Dame Shirley attended the ATP Masters player’s party in Monte Carlo on 11th April.  The above photograph shows her on the red carpet. Special thanks to Susan & Astrid for the photo.

After 10 & The Rhythm Divine -Part 1-

For todays blog a request by Jonas from Germany. He wants to see the performance of Shirley on Jimmy Tarbuck’s show “After 10″, because Shirley is performing his favourite song “The Rhythm Divine”. The recording of this show was in 1988 and Shirley was living in Marbella in Spain at the time than later moved to Monte Carlo. [...]

Astrid’s Simply Bassey #95

Today I’d like to play a special request for Audrey, who asked me to play “I Want To Know What Love Is” Audrey recalled how she was in the front row the night Shirley sang the song for the first time and remembers how wonderful it was, so much so that it caused an immediate [...]

New Book

It appears that there is to be a new book published on the 2nd September.  It is written by John Williams.  I hope it will be a vast improvement on the previous two books that have been published about Shirley.  Neither were authorised and I doubt very much that this one is either.  Shirley has [...]

Fiddler on the roof & The BRIT’s

For today 2 (very) short clips of Dame Shirley Bassey. The first one is from 1994: Dame Shirley at the opening night of “Fiddler on the roof”. The second one a clip I found on my recorder when coming back from my holidays: Dame Shirley at the BRIT’s this year. About “Fiddler on the roof” [...]

DSB at Bruce Fortsyth’s easter show -Part 2 (Last part)-

  Today the second part of the 1991 Bruce Forsyth Easter show with Dame Shirley Bassey singing: “How do you keep the music playing?”. I would like to dedicate it to my dear friend Maria Teresa from Santiago in Chile because I know this is her favourite song and because I am glad that none [...]