Jun 2005, from My Weekly
I do sometimes get that funny feeling that I'm going to wake up
one day and it's all over the papers that I'm married again. But
it's not going to happen unless my Mr Right comes along...
Jun 2003, from Hello Magazine
Still looking every inch the consummate star at 66, Shirley has
had to come to terms with terrible traumas in her life, including
her father walking out when she was just two and the...
Jun 2003, from Australian New Idea Magazine
After 50 years on stage legendary singer Shirley Bassey is still
enthralling audiences with her unique blend of nostalgia and
raunchiness. And at 66, she remains one of the world’s...
May 2003, from Channel Four Television/So Television
I thought Dame Shirley Bassey was a real star on V Graham
Norton. She proved that although she is an international star
she hasn't let fame go to her head and had a good...
May 2003, from Saga Magazine
This year, Shirley Bassey notches up fifty years in showbusiness
– a statistic that’s hard to believe, given the pace and passion
with which she lives her life...
May 2003, from BBC Radio Two
I listen to old records to see if there is anything I can revive, I
don’t play the LPs, I have them and I have the machine to
play them, but I don’t touch them, they are sacred...
May 2003, from Sunday Telegraph
Today she is recording a song at Sir George Martin’s Air Studios, a
converted Victorian church in Hampstead, north London. It is for a
new album which, with a tour in June, will mark her 50 years...
Oct 2000, from FHM magazine
In a career spanning almost 50 years, Shirley Bassey has earned
dozens of gold discs, sung for JFK at the White House, and played
to millions of people in everywhere...
Oct 2000, from Dutch magazine Privé
She has the legs that would make a twenty year old jealous.
Shirley Bassey: a world star, grandmother and living in Monaco,
she works very hard to keep in good shape...
Dec 1999, in-depth interview from OK! Magazine
Shirley Bassey is one of the true legends of show business. For
more than 40 years, she has dominated the music world with her
unique style and glamour, and her simply awesome voice...
Sep 1997, from Sunday Times
Many column inches have been spent recounting her personal life.
Conveniently for journalists, it has been a bit of disaster and thus
has contributed neatly to the cliché that...
Jan 1996, from Sunday Star Times
The roller-coaster ride of her personal life has been accepted by her
fans, who continue to buy tickets for her concerts in their thousands,
calling each time for their sixties favourites...
1973/1974, from The Gig
I belong to the show-must-go-on school. I've been in this business
too long for it to be any other way with me, and it takes a lot out of
me. So in order to fulfil this great responsibility, I try...
1960, from Picture Show
I look so sure of myself and so unapproachable, whereas, off-stage,
I'm quite unsophisticated and easy to talk to. I must admit I'm still
terrified of singing in public at a party. I was asked to...