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“Dame Shirley Bassey & vocal trio BLAKE release their unique festive single ‘The Christmas Song’ on December 18th.”

(Via Jared Braden)

I much prefer Dame Shirley’s trademark number This Is My Life to her Bond stuff, but I’ll gladly take what I can get.  I’ve only seen her once in concert and even though I’d fallen and broken six bones in my hand and wrist that morning, I still made it to the San Francisco Opera House, where I was admonished …

About ten years ago, I broke my hand and arm in six places when I tripped over a big pile of air that someone had negligently left lying on the Market Street sidewalk. But that didn’t stop me from attending Dame Shirley Bassey’s concert that night at the San Francisco Opera House, where in a vicodin haze I was chastised …