Shirley Bassey

...Kaiser Chiefs, Richard Hawley and Gary Barlow of Take That. Next month, Geffen releases The Performance, Bassey's first album of entirely original material in almost 20 years. Its genesis came with her appearance at Glastonbury in 2007,...

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Other songs on The Performance, Dame Shirley's first new studio album in 20 years, were provided by Rufus Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Nick Hodgson from the Kaiser Chiefs and Richard Hawley, who were also all in attendance tonight. Barlow...

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...hear that as I was writing the song. It's impossible not to. " Barlow and the likes of Wainwright or KT Tunstall are immediate matches for Dame Shirley but the album also features artists you would not have connected to her, such as Richard...

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...it cost GBP21, something like that. " Dame Shirley described her new album, which features 11 songs written for her by such songwriters as Gary Barlow and Rufus Wainwright, as autobiographical. Part of that is a reflection on her early...

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...span of top 40 hits by a woman (52 years). And now Bassey is back. She has recorded The Performance, her first album of original material for 20 years, and it's wonderful. The songs are instant Bassey anthems - some grandiose epics, others...

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...Paul Sexton - 15 mins ago LONDON (Billboard) - One of Britain's most beloved entertainers, with global career sales estimated at 135 million by her label, Shirley Bassey hardly needs to make albums anymore. But on November 9 in the...

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"Shirley Bassey is a truly iconic artist and one of the most successful British female singers of all time, but this new album gives her the potential of achieving the kind of commercial success she has not enjoyed in years. "A truly...

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