DSB at Gorbachev 80th. birthday party (Part 1)

Today two videos appeared in YouTube of Dame Shirley Bassey’s performance last night at the Royal Albert Hall in London for mr. Gorbachev 80th. birthday party. Songs: ‘Diamonds are forever’ and ‘The lady is a tramp’.  She sounded and looked amazing. (With special thanks to Susan) From Bloomberg.com: Storming Shirley The good-bad, stop-start energy was [...]

Interview from 1990

For today we have an interview for you from American TV from 1990 with Dame Shirley Bassey where she speaks about her new album at the time ‘Keep the music playing’ and her tthe USA. It is from a local New York TV. channel and I  think most of you haven’t seen this interview before as I [...]

The Diamond Awards Show -Part 8- (Last part)

For this Sunday we have the last part of the ‘Diamond awards show’ from Antwerp and part two of the interview from the Sunday Times. Song: ‘I Am What I Am’. For the studio version of ‘I am what I am’  CLICK HERE please. Written by Jerry Herman. Released in 1984 on a single and [...]

Astrid’s Simply Bassey #138

This week I’d like to respond to an email from Jill concerning “Here’s To Life” Shirley has indeed performed this song live on several occasions around 2005/2006 and it was recorded at “Another Audience” but sadly not included in the final edit. Today I shall play for you a bootleg recording and while it may [...]

The Diamond Awards Show -Part 7-

Part 7 of the ‘Diamond awards show’ has the songs: ‘This is my life’ and ‘I wish you love’.  Below an interesting newspaper cutting (Part 1) from the ‘Sunday times’ from 1997. The year of the recording of this DVD. ‘I wish you love’ is originaly from the album ’12 of those songs’. This album seems to [...]

DSB Dress For Auction.

Dame Shirley has donated a dress for The Noah’s Arc Appeal which she supports.  Above is a signed photo of Shirley wearing the dress which will be given to the winner of the auction.  For details please follow the link below.  http://www.noahs-ark-appeal.org/New%20Site/news.html#dress Sealed bids will be accepted from people who are not able to attend [...]