Miss Shirley Bassey
Last updated: 12.03.22
| Printed: | 2011 | Author: | John L. Williams |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing Plc | ISBN: | ? 978-1847249753 |
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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher's blurb:
In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. Depressed, disillusioned and four months pregnant, her dream of being a professional singer seemed over. A mere ten year later, with 'Goldfinger' topping the charts, she had become one of the biggest stars in the world.
Miss Shirley Bassey traces this extraordinary transformation, recapturing the lost landscape of Fifties Soho, with its smoke-filled jazz clubs, notorious gangsters and predatory managers, in which a raw, but talented, Welsh singer fought to make her name. In this vivid and gripping book, John L. Williams shows how Shirley Bassey battled from Tiger Bay to the top.