Shirley Bassey - GOLDFINGER (2011 Live)

2011 - Dame Shirley Bassey appears on the Classic BRIT Awards Show) Dame Shirley closes the 2011 Classic Brit Awards Show (May 12, 2011) by paying tribute to John Barry. Shirley is spectacular, once again, as she sings one of her hits, Goldfinger, which was co-written by John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, Don Black and Anthony Newley. Bassey is the UKs most successful female recording artist of all time, with approaching 140 Million records sold worldwide! Not bad for someone who never originally intended to go into show business!! Shirley recorded two versions of this song. She recorded the soundtrack to the movie, ’Goldfinger’ and then she recorded a version to be sold as a ’single.’ Both versions are superb, but I believe she holds that big last note longer here, on the ’Single’ version! Simply amazing! And, based on the length of this last note it most likely was during the recording of this version where John Barry kept telling Shirley to '