Oct 2005
Shirley Bassey added glamour to the celebrations at Baroness
Thatcher’s 80th birthday party. The Queen and over 650 guests
honoured the former Tory Prime Minister on Thursday 13th...
Sep 2005
Shirley has appointed Sotheby’s to offload a collection of beautiful
ornate furniture and works of art from her elegant apartment in
Monte Carlo. Don’t worry, she’s not fallen on hard times. She...
Sep 2005
Dame Shirley Bassey is among the first sixteen celebrities to get
their names emblazoned on Britain's own Hollywood-style walk of
fame, in London, situated outside St. Paul's in Covent Garden...
Jul 2005
A new take on 'Diamonds Are Forever' is set to become one of this
summer's biggest hits. 'Diamonds From Sierra Leone' is the latest
single from rapper Kanye West and takes the airwaves by storm...
Jun 2005
The contents of Dame Shirley Bassey's London Residence. Items to
go under the hammer include personal effects, paintings, furniture
and related ephemera. It consists of just 86 lots and is scheduled...
Mar 2005
Many great singers have performed a James Bond film title song,
but nobody does it better than Dame Shirley Bassey. It was no
surprise when Shirley Veronica Bassey was named one of the...
Sep 2004
A Glittering Event - Full of Fun, Music, Laughter and Champagne!
Shirley looked good and was on magnificent form. All for a great
charity in the Land of Song. See Peggy's wonderful report & pics!
Sep 2004
When the epoch-defining songstress stepped into the playroom
at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, she filled it with the
regal glamour rarely seen this side of the Russian Revolution...
Sep 2004
Dame Shirley Bassey has been given a grand tour of the new
Children's Hospital for Wales she helped to fund. The Cardiff-born
singer gave £125,000 to the project and a new cancer unit will be...
April 2004
Thinking pink was the order of the day for the Laurent-Perrier
Chilled Pink Party. The champagne was Laurent-Perrier Rosé,
reportedly one of Dame Shirley's favourites...
Jan 2004
Welsh superstar Dame Shirley Bassey received eight standing
ovations as she took to the stage on boat Queen Mary 2
following a bout of sea sickness...
Nov 2003
She was awarded the first ever lifetime achievement award at the
Western Mail Welsh Woman of the Year Awards ceremony. It was
an emotional night for Dame Shirley as she tearfully...
Oct 2003
Dame Shirley Bassey was awarded a special award for outstanding
contribution to music at a star-studded ceremony which took place
at London's Carling Apollo in Hammersmith...
Oct 2003
Dame Shirley Bassey, flown in from London just for the night, raised
goosebumps... she tossed her gold lame cape, which she had
extended as if in flight, to the floor and disappeared with a poof...
Jul 2003
What a night! Dame Shirley Bassey stayed throughout the auction
and serenaded the big spenders several times. Nearly £250,000
raised. An amazing event and great fun...
Jun 2003
There aren't many singers who could claim to have nothing while
standing, dripping in diamonds and wrapped up in furs, in front
of 60,000 adoring fans. But Shirley Bassey...
May 2003
It's a success story that would be returned to any scriptwriter foolish
enough to submit so fantastic a fable to a Hollywood film studio. But
while her career has rarely faltered, there...
Apr 2003
Legendary singer Dame Shirley Bassey has been awarded the Legion
d'Honneur, due to her huge popularity in France. More than 60 of
Dame Shirley's closest friends including actress Joan Collins and...
Nov 2002
Shirley Bassey of lung-busting Goldfinger fame, is keen to get her
larynx round another James Bond theme, she told me at last nights
party after the premiere of Die Another Day. "Id do it like a shot...
Sep 2002
A highlight of the evening was Dame Shirley Bassey's performance.
Guests were so moved by her performance that they chanted her
name until she came back onstage to deliver a powerful...
Jun 2002
Over in Mayfair, the Magical Fashion Fantasia Ball lives up to its name.
The National Kidney Research Fund organises it and you'd have thought
you were in fairyland what with icons Shirley Bassey...
April 2002
Dame Shirley Bassey forced her way onto the rostrum to sing Summertime
for £200 from each table for the auction, and kissed Christie's auctioneer
Jussi Pylkkanen. What did he do? Maintained...
Feb 2002
Singer Shirley Bassey delighted hundreds of well-wishers by turning up
in a scarlet gown with matching beret and fur. Asked if she was looking
forward to the wedding, Bassey replied: "Of course I am...
Jul 2001
Shirley Bassey, the big-voiced singer from Cardiff's Tiger Bay, seems
like a classic diva, with a stormy personal life to match her 40-year
professional career. But, as Channel 4 shows...
May 2001
Dame Elizabeth Taylor pledged £66,000 to hear fellow Dame Shirley
Bassey sing an encore of Diamonds Are Forever last night - and
helped raise £1.4 million for AIDS research...
Oct 2000
Stars including Dame Shirley Bassey without fee for charity. Some
guests stood on the chairs during Shirley Bassey's passionate
and breathtaking performance...
Oct 2000
Cliff decided that the guests who would join him on the cruise
should be his very closest friends and dearest family members -
from two of his sisters to superstars such as Dame Shirley...
Jul 2000
Shirley Bassey worried she was going to have a nervous breakdown
trying to keep secret her honour as a Dame before it was published
in the Millennium New Year's honours list...
Feb 2000, from Las Vegas Sun
She has been one of the most durable and popular female vocalists
during the last half century. In 1977 she received the Britannia Award
for Best Female Solo Singer in the Last 50 Years...
Various Articles from 1999
Superstar Shirley Bassey upstaged the Prince of Wales yesterday
with an extraordinary dragon dress at the launch of the rugby World
Cup in Cardiff. The singer form Tiger Bay, in a sequinned gown...
Apr 1998
No singer is more closely associated with James Bond than Welsh diva
Shirley Bassey. She was already a popular nightclub draw in America
when John Barry tapped her for Goldfinger in 1964...
Various Articles from 1997
An inferno of sequins blazes inside the star dressing room. An
unearthly figure sits before the light bulb-framed mirror confronting
her shimmering image, as she has done for the past 44 years...
Dec 1997
Gay men continue to flock in droves to see her and buy her albums
by the bucketful. What does she see as the appeal? "I think it's the
glamour and the theatricality of it all...they like a strong woman...
Feb 1994
She was invited to see the Queen at Buckingham Palace and received
a medal making her a CBE. Shirley Bassey said: "This honour was the
cherry on the cake, it means that all I have done...
Various Articles from 1987
Billy Mackenzie as lyricist and co-collaborator, 'The Rhythm Divine' was
written especially for the Tiger Bay diva. "Shirley Bassey has one of the
greatest voices I have ever heard and a strength as a performer...