Shalini Dore at Variety reports that Dame Shirley Bassey will be making a rare American performance at amFAR’s Inspiration Gala on 29th October in Los Angeles. Gwyneth Paltrow will host the event honouring Tom Ford at Milk Studios in Hollywood.
Sharon Stone, will be joined by event chairs Bryan Lourd, Aileen Getty, and amfAR chairman Kenneth Cole at the black-tie event. A veritable who’s who of Hollywood has signed up to co-chair the gala including Matt Bomer, Courteney Cox, John Demsey, Michael Patrick King, Daphne Guinness, Simon Halls, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Tim Hanlon, Alan Poul, Vincent Roberti, Rich Ross, JR Savet and Amber Valletta.
Launched in 2010 to raise funds for AIDS research, the galas have a different city and theme each year, raising $16m so far. Already this year there have been two such galas, in Milan and Dallas.
What Now My Love: (Original French lyrics by Pierre Delanoë.)
recorded: July 4, 1962
released:
UK: July, 1962 on Columbia single DB 4882
US: August 10, 1962 on United Artists single UA 503
charted: single UK: #5, August 30, 1962
In 1962 released on the album Let’s Face The Music and on some singles. The single reached position number five in the UK singles charts and stayed in the charts for 17 weeks.
The song is available on CD on a digitally remastered album. A new studio recording with the London Symphony Orchestra was released in 1984 on the album I Am What I Am. A live recording is available for example on the 1997 The Birthday Concert and on the video Shirley Bassey Live In Cardiff.
This was originally the French song “Et Maintenant” by Gilbert Bécaud 1961.
Other songs of Gilbert Bécaud recorded by Shirley Bassey are Love On The Rocks, and It Must Be Him.
“Et Maintenant” has been re-recorded more than 150 times. With the English lyrics by Carl Sigman as “What Now My Love” it became famous all around the world.
1966 Sonny and Cher reached position number 14 in the US Billboard with this song.
In the album sleeve note Kenneth Hume wrote:
“One of the last arrangements being What Now My Love, was written by Nelson Riddle the morning of the recording session and parts of the orchestra score only arrived halfway through the session – the copying being done by an extraordinary organisation, appropriately called Panic Music…”
Below the live version from 1980. Also the remix version of this song from the ‘Get the party started’ CD.
For the video click left
For the remix click the player below
Lyrics:
What now my love?
Now that you’ve left me
How can I live Through another day?
Watching my dreams Turning to ashes
And my hopes Into bits of clay
Once I could see Once I could feel Now I’m numb I’ve become unreal I walk the night Without a goal Stripped of my heart My soul
What now my love? Now that it’s over I feel the world Closing in on me Here come the stars Tumbling around me There’s the sky Where the sea should be
What now my love? Now that you’re gone I’d be a fool To go on and on No one would care No one would cry If I should live Or die
What now my love? Now there is nothing Only my last Good-bye
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