Another single from the 1976 Love Life And Feelings album. The A-side is If I Never Sing Another Song and the b-side is Everything That Touches You.
THE JAPANESE SINGLES # 14
Monthly Archives: March 2024
FROM THE ARCHIVE 620 -2002-
For today’s blog we go back to the year 2002, when Dame Shirley attended Joan Collins’ wedding, with three newspaper articles from The Daily Post Liverpool, The Daily Mail and The Independent. Also below you can listen to a wonderful concert from a year unknown that I found on an audio tape. It was labelled Monte Carlo 2002. If anybody knows from what year it was please let us know.
Twentieth-Century Divas: Shirley Bassey
From London’s Gresham College: a lecture by Professor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, Visiting Professor of Film and Theatre Music about Dame Shirley Bassey.
The Black Welsh singer started out recording cover versions of American songbook classics but rose to international fame after her performance of the title song of Goldfinger. Movie songs, successful albums and popular television specials followed, but so too did personal tragedy and a highly critical (and gendered) reputation of her professional behaviour in the media.
The word ‘diva’ has been applied both admiringly and misogynistically to her life and work, typifying her experience as a Black British woman.
Gresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of their supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. They believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds.
Shirley Bassey at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club # 1
Today the first part of a video from 1970: Shirley Bassey at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club where she wears the famous catsuit.
As you will see in the video the Monte Carlo audience is a bit peculiar and if you click the player below you can listen to an interview from 1984 where Shirley speaks about this.
Dame Shirley Bassey Blog 
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