Dame Shirley Bassey’s jewellery collection has broken a world record in Paris, with the auction of some of her "most meaningful" jewels selling for a total of €2.2 million. The famous Welsh singer, 87 ...

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Dame Shirley Bassey, who famously sang "Diamonds Are Forever" in the James Bond film of the same name, is selling some of her jewellery and watches at auction, with proceeds ...

“Goldfinger” by Shirley Bassey from ‘Goldfinger’ (1964) The giant-voiced singer Shirley Bassey made herself the star when she sang this theme from the James Bond movie of the same name. In a way, ...

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Most Americans know Shirley Bassey only from her three brassy James Bond film themes—Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker. In the U.K., Dame Shirley was enormously popular from the late ...

When you think back and consider the seminal musical decades from the 20th century, it’s hard not to think of the 1960s first. The decade set the tone for so much in American and global history, ...

We have all the time in the world… to debate the relative merits of 50 years of James Bond music, as we do each time a new entry, like Billie Eilish’s “No Time to Die,” is added to the canon. And in ...

Dame Shirley Bassey is staging a comeback to the music scene, with what some are calling a “grand finale. The 83-year-old vocal powerhouse behind the theme songs to the legendary James Bond films ...

Prolific session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, who played on hits by stars including Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and Dusty Springfield, has died. Sullivan, 71, was ...

Collins was born in London in 1937, the younger daughter of Elsa Bessant and Joseph William Collins, a theatrical agent whose clients included Shirley Bassey, The Beatles and Tom Jones. Collins began ...