Uploaded by MrHalasa on Feb 4, 2011
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh singer. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. Bassey is an international artist who has accumulated 20 silver discs for sales in Britain, Europe and the Middle East; fifty-plus gold discs for international record sales; and countless greatest-hits collections including one gold and two platinum. Her Top 10 albums include Shirley; Something; Something Else; Never, Never, Never and 2007's Get the Party Started.
Bassey was born on 8 January 1937 at 182 Bute Street, Tiger Bay, Cardiff, to a Efik Nigerian sailor father and a mother from Yorkshire, who divorced when she was three. She grew up in the working-class dockside district of Tiger Bay as the youngest of seven children. After leaving Moorland School at the age of fifteen, Bassey first found employment packing at a local factory while singing in local pubs and clubs in the evenings and weekends. In 1953, she signed up for the revue Memories of Jolson, a musical based on the life of Al Jolson.....
Bassey's first marriage was to Kenneth Hume (from 1961 to 1965) and ended in divorce. Her second husband was Sergio Novak. Bassey and Novak were married from 1968 until they divorced in 1977; Novak served as Bassey's manager for this period of time. Bassey has two daughters and one adopted son. Her first daughter Sharon was born when Bassey was seventeen. Bassey's second daughter, Samantha, was found dead in 1985 after apparently having jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. Bassey has always insisted the death of her daughter was not suicide....
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full moon ha
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maya rudolph?
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Ha ha ha ha.......as long as you have something pleasing to the eye to show....it's just okay if you flaunt it.......
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@Pauly69s Lol? are you joking ,,,
rihanna? lady gaga?beyonce/
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@Pauly69s We are so BassAckwards!!!!!! I agree!!! We are uptight, drugged out, depressed and obese......after all that, who wants sex? LOL!!!!! I agree with you Pauly!!!
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you could show ass crack on Brit tv...we Americans are way to uptight about that...we love our blood and gore and violence but VERY uptight about sex and the human body...
1 month ago 4
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look at all the guys with their mouths on the floor
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Fierce
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she's pissed
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Just so you all know, the bare back look (with the butt peek) was a official style in those days
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you could show your ass crack on tv in the 60s? like for real?
themodelgirl 6 months ago 58
@themodelgirl LOL. Apparently so!
Rosannasfriend 4 months ago 15