Shirley Bassey
The Performance

Welsh songstress Shirley Bassey (a.k.a Dame Shirley Bassey or DSB) has been performing and recording now for over fifty years and for the most part ha...

Much is made of the success being enjoyed by pensionable pop stars (92 in the case of chart-topper Dame Vera Lynn) but, really, it's only to be expect...

Shirley, Shirley, Shirley. Love her or hate her, the woman is a legend. Take a look at the cover of her latest album. She’s 72 years old and you could...

Her first new album in 22 years, Bassey enlists top-line writers like Pet Shop Boys and Gary Barlow, alongside David Arnold's orchestral productio...

Following her imperious domination of the Electric Proms, the dame delivers her first full studio album in 20 years, singing songs written specially f...

In The Performance we are invited to deduce that there is more (in a way, less) to Bassey than meets the eye: away from the spotlight, she's just a wo...

Crests tend to come as standard for schools, sports teams and royal families. Outside of such institutions though, they’re not so commonly found...

UNDER CONSTRUCTION....

Fully 45 years ago Shirley Bassey strode onto the music scene and belted out John Barry's theme to the James Bond film Goldfinger. She'd return to th...

Gleich dreimal durfte Shirley Bassey bislang einem James Bond-Film den dazu gehörigen Titelsong schenken. Bislang Ja, denn wer sagt denn, dass nicht ...