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Miss Shirley Bassey
In 1954 Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called Hot from Harlem. Depressed disillusioned and four months pregnant she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later she was one of the biggest stars in the world. She had sold more records than any other British singer of the day and was poised to conquer America. Her latest hit Goldfinger was the theme tune to the years blockbuster film. No longer the two-bit jazz singer from Cardiff she was by now an international sex siren as glamorous and unreal as Bond himself. Miss Shirley Bassey explores this remarkable transformation both of an individual and of the British society and British psyche that made it possible. From the vibrant multicultural
oasis of Tiger Bay in the Cardiff docklands through the club-lands of Soho and Las Vegas to New Yorks Carnegie Hall it is a journey from mere mortal to international icon. Along the way she would encounter homosexual husbands predatory managers newspaper scandals and a range of friends and acquaintances from Sammy Davis Jr to Reggie Kray. John L. Williams draws on original research and interviews to provide a portrait of a young woman on the cusp of stardom whose rise to fame was in many ways symbolic of a changing world. Brilliantly written non-fiction in the style of David Peaces The Damned Utd or Nick Tosches Dino this is the story of a woman who set out to be extraordinary and - against all the odds - succeeded.
oasis of Tiger Bay in the Cardiff docklands through the club-lands of Soho and Las Vegas to New Yorks Carnegie Hall it is a journey from mere mortal to international icon. Along the way she would encounter homosexual husbands predatory managers newspaper scandals and a range of friends and acquaintances from Sammy Davis Jr to Reggie Kray. John L. Williams draws on original research and interviews to provide a portrait of a young woman on the cusp of stardom whose rise to fame was in many ways symbolic of a changing world. Brilliantly written non-fiction in the style of David Peaces The Damned Utd or Nick Tosches Dino this is the story of a woman who set out to be extraordinary and - against all the odds - succeeded.
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