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Shirley Bassey: The Soul Of Showbiz

Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 18 September 1971

EVEN BEFORE she stuck out her bottom and waggled it provocatively at the crucial moments on 'Big Spender', yes, even before she and Eartha Kitt appeared together on Simon Dee's redundant show and took it in turns to play cat to each other's mouse, I've fancied Shirley Bassey.

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