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Shirley Bassey: My Life on Record and In Concert (Hardcover)

by Shirley Bassey (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (15 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074754090X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747540908
  • Product Dimensions: 27.3 x 26.7 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 106,824 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

It's Bassey's Diamond Jubilee--OK, so it's only four decades in showbiz, and the lady's nearing 62, but who's counting? From her birth at 182 Bute Street, Cardiff, to a ship's fireman and a local Tiger Bay girl, to her recent retro-smash with the Propellerheads, the whole rags-to-riches story is here, gorgeously illustrated (birth certificate, school photographs) and with La Bassey herself illuminating her inspirations, songs, nerves, and remarkable voice.

The book's odd title properly conveys Bassey's astute move from hit- parade fodder to bigtime cabaret and concert venues, where her greatest successes now lie. You never forget the Bassey entrance to the power chords of "Goldfinger" in a fabulous full-trained frock, raising her arms before launching into that trademark roar. The hem of the frock makes it onstage sometime during the second chorus.

This is a book for fans, and they're well treated by it. Record covers, concert programmes, reviews and press releases are all lovingly reproduced--and when Sean Connery pens your album notes, why not? It shies clear of Bassey's marital problems, her daughter's tragic death, and her alleged hauteur with the help, but then her attempts at personal sincerity have always seemed strangely misplaced. Bassey is glitz and guts and tawdry glamour, and it's all here. In buckets. --Alan Stewart



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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 in the world of music.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not for the uninitiated -, 10 Dec 1998
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This book contains all the detail of album covers and concert programmes and notes and sippets that a true fan will revel in. If you are looking for a gritty account of her rags to riches bumpy ride through life, or insites into what makes her who she is forget it. This is glitz, glitz and more glitz, though nicely done. A must for a fan and anyone intersted in a pictoral report of one of the greatest recording/caberet voices ever. Truely a great performer
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5.0 out of 5 stars A MARVELLOUS FORM TO KNOW SHIRLEY'S LIFE, 7 Jan 2001
By MACELLARI, Anibal Carlos (MAR DEL PLATA, BUENOS AIRES Argentina) - See all my reviews
EXCELLENT FORMAT AND PHOTOGRAPS. I THINKS IS UNFORGETABLE FOR ALL SHIRLEY'S FUNS.
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