Dame Shirley Bassey: The performance of my life

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  • @GreatDarkWing0491
    @GreatDarkWing0491 4 года назад +13

    No matter how many times I listen that final note always makes me cry.

  • @johnboy8623
    @johnboy8623 Год назад +4

    Tennant and Lowe song beautiful ❤

  • @sommy38
    @sommy38 15 лет назад +4

    im crying...how beautiful..my old bassey is back.....this song is ...welll..nothing short of brilliance............xxxxi love shirl.....x

  • @giddyoldgoat3069
    @giddyoldgoat3069 4 года назад +23

    And still I sob my heart out every time I watch this... what a fabulous beautiful song sung by the only person who could ever ever have sung this.. Thank You the The Shop Boys and Thank you Shirley.... xx

  • @nathangarpiya4554
    @nathangarpiya4554 4 года назад +6

    Can't believe her voice at this age. Who is watching in 2020?

  • @pamligon3822
    @pamligon3822 10 лет назад +68

    This song is one of the most beautiful ever written. No one but Dame Shirley Bassey could do it any justice. Her voice is still powerful, strong, rich and beautiful after all these years. Long live the Dame. You are loved and oh so valued!

  • @creswellcraggs
    @creswellcraggs 3 года назад +12

    Had this played at my mothers funeral ( big Shirley fan ) sounded awesome in church.❤❤❤❤

  • @davidwalsh3439
    @davidwalsh3439 8 лет назад +42

    What a great lady. This song is so beautifully performed very movingly. Thank you Shirley for all of the wonderful songs over the years. An amazing lady

  • @08CARIB
    @08CARIB 6 лет назад +30

    I keep finding my way back to this video, what a PERFORMANCE!!!

    • @08CARIB
      @08CARIB 24 дня назад

      6 years later and I'm back again :)

  • @markibrahim8806
    @markibrahim8806 6 лет назад +17

    I first saw Shirley Bassey at the Victoria Theatre in Halifax when I was 17. I am now 75 She was backed by the Ken Macintosh Band.She was totally amazing then and still is. I loved you that night and still do.Thank you for some wonderful music and memories Melvyn

  • @davidwhitlock9443
    @davidwhitlock9443 8 лет назад +25

    Shirley's performance still gives me goosebumps……makes you want to stand up and cheer….

  • @morkygorky
    @morkygorky 6 лет назад +50

    Somewhere Andrew Lloyd Webber sits and wishes he'd ever written a song like this.... When the Pet Shop Boys are done with writing intelligent pop songs they can move on to writing intelligent songs for musicals. This is an amazing song!!

    • @ArbeiterInnenlieder
      @ArbeiterInnenlieder 4 года назад +3

      Has ALW ever really WRITTEN a song? I mostly find him stealing songs...

    • @sdry1688
      @sdry1688 4 года назад +6

      @@ArbeiterInnenlieder nonsense...not a huge fan, but JCSS and Evita are full of gems

  • @tommylundholm9146
    @tommylundholm9146 3 года назад +12

    This will always stay close to me Dame Shirley and Pet Shop Boys a collaboration made to last years to come.

  • @mickwragg9603
    @mickwragg9603 3 года назад +5

    Magnificent. Love you shirley. X

  • @thevegasidea
    @thevegasidea 10 лет назад +39

    My mother just died on July 4th 2014 and this song just makes me cry and is a bit about her.
    Love you so much Shirley, thank you for being you...and my mother!!! She loved you!!
    I am so sick without her, just been the 3rd day now....Bless!!! Jay

  • @sandrablade5273
    @sandrablade5273 5 лет назад +13

    National treasure- shirley Bassey

  • @stephenchucky
    @stephenchucky 14 лет назад +15

    no other 70+ yr old would have such songwriters writing for them. long live DSB!

  • @geraldinemclaughlin486
    @geraldinemclaughlin486 4 года назад +6

    When you surf RUclips long enough you'll run in to a diamond Shirley bassy is one of the diamonds 💓🍀

  • @Nightbird.
    @Nightbird. 14 лет назад +13

    One of the greatest singers that has ever lived, a true Legend, a true living treasure. I only hope I can meet her before my life is done to bow down before her and kiss her hand in gratitude for all that she has given me in song and inspiration.
    I love you Dame Shirley with all my heart... =)

  • @miriamaharris4995
    @miriamaharris4995 4 года назад +6

    I love this song it's very moving....Shirley has an amazing way of expressing words...you feel it you sense it you live every moment her whole being expresses a very vivid picture of emotion....it's in her movement, with her body her hands that are so expressive and beautiful to watch, she has it all ...No one absolutely no one can perform a song as she does....years ago I invited my brother to one of her shows.....as she often does ended with 'This is My Life' after the show he said He had tears in his eyes....that is really something for my brother to say....he's big strong and tough as they come not the type that would reduce to tears because Shirley Bassey knows how to reach the depths of your soul...she is so amazing...for years I have loved her I was about 16 or so when I first heard her sing..Till..and I was absolutely captivated by her magical sound. My interest became a passion all my life I am sad to say today that I don't have all her LP's that were and still a treasure, I had almost everyone released.....today I have lots of CD's and DVD's....but through these last few years I have not played her music so much..I only have TV but can still watch video''s.....More recently I bought a new TV and I can watch RUclips....So it's been a revival of Shirely Bassey ...the ones I love to play now are The Greatest Performance of My Life.....Born to Lose....Music was my first love...Last Man in My Life...As If we never said Goodbye.. and Till so nice to relive the memories..

  • @hotswede69
    @hotswede69 9 лет назад +30

    I have no words! This is beyond amazing! Dame SB! After so many years and still in the TOP! I lift my hat such an amazing singer/perfomer you are! This is pure class!

  • @1959mistyblue
    @1959mistyblue 12 лет назад +4

    CLASS CLASS what more can i say you are a shining star shirley bassey lots of love from ireland xxx

  • @johnbrocklehurst3570
    @johnbrocklehurst3570 8 лет назад +20

    Brilliant song beautifully sung.

  • @ericjourdain892
    @ericjourdain892 2 года назад +1

    Even an ocean of strings and brass at full blast can't compete with that voice.
    I'm terrified yet happy as a clam.

  • @triciabrown17
    @triciabrown17 13 лет назад +9

    Shirley is a living legend, fantastic voice with so much feeling, love her.

  • @christabel62
    @christabel62 8 лет назад +9

    wonderful song for her, beautifully sung

  • @magicmonkichi
    @magicmonkichi 12 лет назад +6

    Dame Shirley...wow....an such an elegant gesture with the flowers to start off....she was true class.

  • @londontokyosydneyworld8509
    @londontokyosydneyworld8509 7 лет назад +14

    Fantastic. The Pet Shop Boys and Shirley Bassey - perfection. X

  • @londontokyosydneyworld8509
    @londontokyosydneyworld8509 7 лет назад +9

    Just wonderful - can't stop watching it. Thanks so much for posting. X

  • @faulkner2000
    @faulkner2000 11 лет назад +34

    Billboard magazine asked Dame Shirley if she had a favorite track on The Performance. She replied: "I love all of them. But the Pet Shop Boys' song got right into my head and made me sob, and not many songs do that. You can get too carried away with a song, especially onstage, but you can't be crying during every one. When I heard that, after doing all the other songs, it was just too much for me. I don't need to write a book. The record is my autobiography."

    • @jdb7752
      @jdb7752 3 года назад +1

      neil Tennant does a brilliant cover of the bee gees I started a joke check it out.. the pet shop boys are brilliant

  • @ernestscola1783
    @ernestscola1783 9 лет назад +4

    Love you, Dame Shirley Bassey. You brought tears to my eyes with this song.

  • @GMAHSHI1
    @GMAHSHI1 12 лет назад +3

    Shirley; You gave me pleasure, happiness and so much joy even in my darkest days of my life. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeb DONT EVER GO AWAY. THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS YOU.
    THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU, I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
    GEORGE MAHSHI

  • @absoluteracine
    @absoluteracine 11 лет назад +4

    They don't make them like this anymore, this lady is pure CLASS.

  • @76howiematt
    @76howiematt 14 лет назад +2

    Just pure brilliance and thanks for posting it.

  • @BRIERFOX
    @BRIERFOX 11 лет назад +7

    God...I love human beings like this.

  • @TheCharliemartinjr
    @TheCharliemartinjr 14 лет назад +1

    What a wonderful performance!!! That's a great and beautiful woman. So thank you for all my dear Dame Shirley!!!

  • @max28165
    @max28165 15 лет назад +2

    Dame Shirley Bassey + PSB : PERFECT!!!
    The song is symply beautiful! GREAT EMOTION!!!

  • @ziparmux
    @ziparmux 13 лет назад +3

    @whatigot2say She is a treasure and an amazing singer, she is our Welsh treasure, and when in Cardiff ..we know her as 'Our Shirley' and is always treated like a local here, we are not easily starstruck here I don't think...

  • @heatherquigley4363
    @heatherquigley4363 5 лет назад +1

    great lady wonderful voice

  • @FredONeil1
    @FredONeil1 15 лет назад +1

    fantastic as ever !! all apprentice diva this is what real class is about

  • @robertcolema
    @robertcolema 4 года назад +1

    Wow class just chokes me up everytime. Just it's a correct note with me

  • @megamapagmahal
    @megamapagmahal 15 лет назад +1

    i watch her concert on octeber and it was great nothing change on her great great ferformer like DIONNE!!!

  • @thatscousedude
    @thatscousedude 15 лет назад +2

    new song but sounds like an old shirley classic. Loves it!x

  • @buzzukfiftythree
    @buzzukfiftythree 14 лет назад +2

    A wonderful performance from a truly magnificent star!

  • @bloodsplurt007
    @bloodsplurt007 14 лет назад +2

    fantastic song... simply the best performance of a true diva.

  • @arundelmercure553
    @arundelmercure553 5 лет назад +12

    I love how at the very end, Dame Shirley puts hands on hips, looks up at a screen of her younger self, as if to say, "Well, would you get a load of HER, that girl!". Awesome.

  • @stevescissors
    @stevescissors 13 лет назад +3

    She's brilliant and what a voice! Love you Shirley!!

  • @millwalkie2012
    @millwalkie2012 9 лет назад +5

    How could 7 people not like this.

    • @mariojr9258
      @mariojr9258 5 месяцев назад

      Nao tem sensibilidade

  • @alphatreeproductions
    @alphatreeproductions 4 года назад +2

    What voice, what class! There'll never be anyone like this again :(

    • @troianoleonardo
      @troianoleonardo 3 года назад +1

      True. NEVER. She's one of a kind. Limited edition

  • @MrDJFruitloops
    @MrDJFruitloops 13 лет назад +4

    Pet Shop Boys wrote this for Dame Shirley OMG I cry sio much everytime i hear it

  • @davidcardenas3328
    @davidcardenas3328 5 лет назад +1

    Nice version. Pet shop boys is a best duo ever.

  • @cutevtman
    @cutevtman 14 лет назад +4

    Really the last of the GREAT DIVAS!!! How lucky we are to still hear her!!!!

  • @karimalhassani3830
    @karimalhassani3830 25 дней назад

    A terrific song from a wonderful artiste!

  • @LEETZENA
    @LEETZENA 13 лет назад +10

    She is one of the greatest performers ever to come along!!!

  • @edgar95035
    @edgar95035 12 лет назад +8

    there are great singers..and then there's Shirley..all alone at the top

  • @LeeJohn70
    @LeeJohn70 15 лет назад

    This is a great song I am proud of the Pet Shop Boys for writing this great song, there is no one better who could have sand this song it's made for Shirley.
    What a voice Shirley as the real X FACTOR, no one comes close she is simply the best.

  • @hektor_schmidt
    @hektor_schmidt 14 лет назад +3

    Always a fantastic performance

  • @ratrug
    @ratrug 15 лет назад +1

    Oh Shirley. That was beautiful.

  • @doreenfawcett9717
    @doreenfawcett9717 5 лет назад +1

    Juuuuuuuuuust. The Very Best talented lady our very own Dame Shirley ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶Dee xxxxxxx

  • @rob-boticscalisthenicshome6355
    @rob-boticscalisthenicshome6355 4 года назад +32

    In my opinion. Our greatest female British singer. Not taking anything away from any others because we have had some true greats but shirley is a treasure proving that diamonds are forever. I was blessed that my late mother used to belt out her records when I was young. Her voice always reduces me to tears.

    • @mariojr9258
      @mariojr9258 5 месяцев назад +1

      Concordo plebamente.moro no Brasil e ela nunca veio aqui.mas mas seus discos encheram minha vida ate hoje com sua bela voz.gos bless her

  • @jpc8149
    @jpc8149 11 месяцев назад

    Ms. Bassey is one of my All-time favorite singers. She puts her soul into every song she sings.

  • @TheAmos25
    @TheAmos25 12 лет назад +4

    I love her !!!!!!!!!

  • @PointduNord
    @PointduNord 3 года назад

    She is one in a billion !!! What a superb talent !!!

  • @RUBYMUNRO
    @RUBYMUNRO 9 лет назад +6

    Simply stunning, love you xxxx

  • @Robby334
    @Robby334 10 лет назад +7

    What a singer love you Shirley xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • @michael7770
    @michael7770 2 месяца назад

    "Yes, sweetheart" made me cry!

  • @alanpetrucelli5037
    @alanpetrucelli5037 5 лет назад

    Worship the Goddess Dame Shirley

  • @Hotrodpiano
    @Hotrodpiano 12 лет назад +1

    Great, the last note is a world unto itself

  • @audreyharalambos2592
    @audreyharalambos2592 3 года назад +1

    perfection right there xx

  • @lordlucan444
    @lordlucan444 11 лет назад +2

    always knew they could write for others but!!!
    but as for shirlie .....unbelievable

  • @peterhill2590
    @peterhill2590 Год назад +1

    There will never be another bassey superstar ❤

  • @scolytetypographe
    @scolytetypographe 13 лет назад +1

    Souvenir de vacances au Pays de Galles... Excellent !

  • @jimmchale7348
    @jimmchale7348 7 лет назад +1

    A-mazing! Happy Birthday x A treat for the ears!

  • @bobbieparker2900
    @bobbieparker2900 Месяц назад

    love DSB,the best female singer

  • @OstGunther
    @OstGunther Год назад

    deze dame is op alle vlakken uitzonderlijk ! de stem, de klasse, de performance ...

  • @tototita413
    @tototita413 6 лет назад +1

    Shirley thanks to your voice and song I was a great drag queen on stages always LOVE and I got lots diamonds to LOL

  • @luizcarlosfogaca9821
    @luizcarlosfogaca9821 6 лет назад +1

    There is no one like. She is a real Diva....

  • @ninazalesskaya3977
    @ninazalesskaya3977 2 года назад

    Только настоящее искусство пения и голос может вызвать слезы от восхищения. Браво Ширли!!!!!!!!! Россия май 2022.

  • @emmcatherine1460
    @emmcatherine1460 11 лет назад

    magical wonderful singer and song

  • @joannlamonica8067
    @joannlamonica8067 Год назад +1

    Pure pure class👑. JO-ANN. LAMONICA. America. 10/23/2022

  • @shaunjenkinson5089
    @shaunjenkinson5089 Год назад

    73 when this was filmed, spine tingling stuff. Love the great hold at 4:27, goosebumps

  • @sharonwilliams3711
    @sharonwilliams3711 3 года назад +2

    What an amazing voice and passion............thank you Shirley x 2020

  • @joniroquai69
    @joniroquai69 15 лет назад +1

    Epic and deservingly, beautifully executed.

  • @leahhorrigan1805
    @leahhorrigan1805 11 лет назад +2

    beautiful!!!

  • @joannlamonica8067
    @joannlamonica8067 8 месяцев назад +1

    ❤BEAUTIFUL. DSB. NEVER EVER BE ANOTHER. GOD BLESS DSB. JO-ANN. AMERICA. 1/15/2024🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

  • @granto6738
    @granto6738 5 лет назад +1

    Omg, it f killed me my hole family loved her, all gone now, hart breaking x

  • @alphatreeproductions
    @alphatreeproductions Год назад

    Class class class!!! Amazing! ❤

  • @malcs0
    @malcs0 14 лет назад +2

    Class.

  • @ynotnilknarf39
    @ynotnilknarf39 5 лет назад

    BBC Electric Proms 2009, a whippersnapper at 72, outstanding!

  • @superstubes
    @superstubes 13 лет назад +4

    well done Shirley/Pet shop Boys!!

  • @martinwhite3576
    @martinwhite3576 Год назад

    Breathtaking

  • @randyiappelli1
    @randyiappelli1 14 лет назад +1

    @hatstalker IM RANDY and glad you feel the same as i do! I loved her since i was 16 yrs now im 47,I sing I took 15 yrs of lessons so when she sings i never have a dry eye.SHES THE #1 DIVA my queen!!!

  • @chrisgarrity577
    @chrisgarrity577 9 лет назад +10

    Great song orig pet shop boys

  • @martynspencer5275
    @martynspencer5275 8 лет назад +2

    absolute class :)

  • @warrenholborn
    @warrenholborn 13 лет назад

    BASSEY IS THE BEST

  • @trwent
    @trwent 2 года назад

    Love Wales. Dame Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Katherine Jenkins!!

  • @jxpulid
    @jxpulid 14 лет назад

    She should take over Cher when shes done in Vegas... I would pay anything to see her live.....

  • @Summer4All
    @Summer4All 14 лет назад +1

    Just brilliant !!!! little paulo cristo :-D

  • @giancarlobelloni5725
    @giancarlobelloni5725 2 года назад

    Meravigliosa ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @TonyYOLO
    @TonyYOLO 2 месяца назад

    Timeless