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As The Times' review pointed out, the overriding successes of 2007s Glastonbury Festival were those of two female performersone was Lily Allen; the other was Dame Shirley Bassey. Conditions onstage were almost as bad as down in the mud with the crowd, yet the 70-year-old Bassey managed to pull her orchestra and the audience with her all the way. This long-awaited new biography opens with the now-famous helicopter emergency landing that followed Basseys performance, then backtracks to her youth in Cardiffs Tiger Bay in the 1930s. From this moment on, the keyword in this sparkling biography is context. Most people have no real idea what the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s were actually like in Britain, because they believe the clichs. The reality was much bleakera grey world punctuated by the occasional flash of colorand Shirley Bassey was undeniably one of those flashes. The list of obstacles she had to overcome on her way to stardom is dauntingextreme poverty, a mixed-race background, an illegitimate child at the age of 16, and yet within a few years she transformed herself into the Shirley Bassey we all knowand eventually into an icon and a diva. She may be only two years younger than E

Author

Peter K. Hogan

Publisher

Andre Deutsch Ltd : [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780121956

Subjects

Music, Biography, Memoir