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The Real Shirley Bassey
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Websites
Miss Bassey
www.geocities.com/~sbwebmaster/welcome.htm
Nice site with photo galleries, video footage, articles, press cuttings
and biographical information.
This is Dame Shirley Bassey Fanclub
http://shirleybassey.tripod.com/
Dutch fan club with an online swap shop and general information on her
life and music.
The Songs of Shirley Bassey
http://home.arcor.de/bassey/
Quotes, interviews, articles and concert reviews, plus a comprehensive
list of all her singles and albums.
Greatest Hits Shirley Bassey
www.basseyonline.com
Information on her albums, with video footage and downloadable screen
savers.
Your Mobile
www.yourmobile.com/
Download Shirley Bassey songs as ring tones for your mobile phone.
Books
Shirley: An appreciation of the life of Shirley Bassey by
Muriel Burgess (Arrow, 1999) £6.99
Shirley Bassey has sold more records than any other British female singer,
but personal tragedy has fuelled the emotionalism of her songs. This biography
covers her poverty-stricken childhood, her teenage pregnancy, her marriages,
and her affairs.
Shirley Bassey: My life on record and in concert
by Shirley Bassey (Bloomsbury, 1998) £25
This autobiography spans five decades of Bassey's career, from her beginnings
in Cardiff, where she supplemented her weekly wage working in a sausage-making
factory by accepting singing engagements, to her more recent successes
and collaborations as a mega international star.
There's No People Like Show People: Confessions of a showbiz agent
by Michael Sullivan (Quadrant Books, 1984). Out of print.
Memoirs of the man who launched Bassey's career, and who was her first
agent, this book gives valuable background information not only about
Bassey, but also about the world of show business in 1950s and 1960s Britain.
Music
That's What Friends Are For (DRG, 2001) £16.99
Tracks include: Wind Beneath My Wings, Yesterday, That's What Friends
Are for and Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word.
This is my Life: The Greatest Hits (EMD/Capitol,
2001) £14.99
Tracks include: Big Spender, Moonraker and Something.
Diamonds are Forever (EMI, 2000) £14.99
Remixed tracks include: Goldfinger (Propellerheads remix), Never
Never Never (Groove Armada mix) and Light My Fire (Kenny Dope
remix).
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