European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse The Golden touch Shirley Bassey is launching a european tour and about to release a new a singles 1. One More try Timmy t. 2. Someday a Mariah Carey a. 3. Coming out of the dark Gloria Estefan. 4. This House a Trade Spencer 5. Get Here a Oleta Adams 6. Hold you tight Tara Kemp 7. You re in love Wilson Phillips 0. I be been thinking about you Londo beat 9. Rescue me Madonna. 10. Sadness part 1 Enigma top a albums 1. Mariah Carey a Mariah Carey. 2. The soul cages sting. 3. Wilson Phillips Wilson Phillips. 4. To the extreme Vanilla ice a 5. Gonna make you sweat a amp a music factory 6. Shake your Money maker Black crowds. 7. I m your baby tonight Whitney Houston b. Into the Light Gloria Estefan 9. Please Hammer Don t Hurt pm . Hammer 10. Some people s lives Bette midle country a singles 1. Loving bund Clint Black. 2. I d love you All Over again Alan Jackson 3.1 see you leavin Conway Twitty 4. Two of a kind. Working on a full House Garth Brooks 5. Heroes and friends a Randy Travis 6. In a that kind of girl Patty Loveless a 7.1 got you a Shenandoah. A 8. Men forester Sisters 9. Don Tyell me what to do a Pam Tillis. 10. Down Home Alabama a. Ramp by singles 1.1 like the Way i five 2. Don t let me Down the of jays 3. Someday a Mariah Carey 4. Do me again Freddie Jackson 5 All True Man a Alexander o Neal a 6 wrap my body tight Johnny Gill a 7. Written All Over your face rude boys. 8. Hold you tight Tara Kemp 9. Let s chill Guy 10 All season Levert a a compiled by billboard Story and photo by Anita Gosch staff writer Shirley Bassey struggled As she climbed onto the shiny Black and Chrome motorcycle parked along the Bank of the Rhine River in Cologne Germany to pose for photographers. With her Petite body wrapped in faded tight fitting jeans a baby Blue Turtleneck sweater and fur Cape Bassey did not look at All like the glamorous Singer who in More than 30 years in show business has become As celebrated for the elegant gowns she wears on stage As for her magnificent voice. Nor did she look like a three time grandmother. But then age in t a Factor for Bassey. At 54, she s about to release a new album a her first in seven years a and Shell be performing two shows in Germany at the end of March followed by a lengthy tour of the United kingdom in May. Quot i m just showing off Quot Bassey said of her outfit a Youthful twinkle in her eyes As she sat before a roomful of reporters after the photo session. Bassey certainly has no need to show off her track record in show business Speaks for itself. Since her debut in 1955 in a revue in London s West end she s had 28 Gold records and numerous hits including big spender climb every Mountain i who have nothing and a perhaps her most famous a cold Finger i rom the 1964 James Bond movie of the same name. She has Sung for american presidents at the White House and for British Royalty in London. And she continues to sing to packed houses around the world. Quot i believe in Glamour and i think the audience loves Glamour Quot she said. Quot i try to give them Beautiful songs and a glamorous look where women can say gosh i d love to borrow that gown i think that s the secret of a a a a a \ a despite her Success Bassey has found out that you re never too Good a or too old a to learn something new or try something different. For the past three years she s been taking lessons and doing vocal exercises which have helped increase her Range by half an octave. Quot there Are some songs on the new album that three years ago i would t have dreamed about doing because the voice was t there and the courage to do them was t there Quot she said. Fans of Bassey need t worry that the album a scheduled for release in april and tentatively titled How do you keep the music playing a will be a departure from her usual sophisticated style. Though two of the songs on the album Are by Elton John and the Rock group foreigner Shell be singing them her Way she said. Quot and then they will become my a since she began working on the album Bassey said she s been keeping a close watch on the contemporary music scene. Though she enjoys such artists As Whitney Houston Michael Jackson Janet Jackson and George Michael she deplores much of what she sees on music television. Quot i Tell you what they play today is a lot of crap. I see some of these kids who put a few words together with some music and they make a video which is very bad. They re surrounded by dancers coming and going and thrashing a bit. And there s no performance. Quot whatever happened to Good old fashioned Talent i say let s bring it Bassey herself came into show business the hard Way. She was born in the Tiger Bay Dock area of Cardiff Wales the youngest of eight children. Her Mother was a Yorkshire woman and her father a nigerian Seaman from whom she believes she inherited her penchant for living out of a suitcase. Quot he was always travelling never at Home Quot Bassey recalled. Quot the Only time he was at Home the neighbors knew that nine months later there d be another Bassey always Sang As a child but was so shy that she used to hide under a table to sing. At 14, she was persuaded to enter local Talent contests. At 16, she left Home and worked As a waitress before starting out on her singing career. Show business has left its Mark on Bassey s life she s had two broken marriages and the youngest of her three children committed suicide five years ago at age 21. Quot if i d known i would have to sacrifice my family life i Don t think i would Ever have gotten married and have children and the suffering they went through and i went through Quot she said. Bassey draws upon her experiences when choosing songs for an album or to sing in concert she said. Quot i like music that touches my soul my gut. Those Are the songs i look for. Because if they touch me i know that when i sing them they re going to touch my audience. You have to feel the song in order for the audience to feel a a perhaps it s no Surprise then that one of the songs on her new album is foreigner s 1984 Ballad / want to know what love is. Quot i d like to say to you i want to meet that special Man in my life but i Don t think there is such a thing Quot she said. Quot i just think that for a successful woman to have a one on pne relationship with a Man is pretty impossible. Because men find it very difficult to associate with a successful a woman has to be Tough to be out there in the world of show business. Sometimes in the evening when you re at Home a even if you Don t want it to it will a creep out and you tend to get the i m the Boss kind of thing. You Don t mean to but it overflows from the. . For Shirley Bassey s tour dates see the Quot on stage pages More dates in the United kingdom will be added As they Are received. March 21, 1991 stripes Magazine 9
