Coordinates	26°12′44″N127°40′45″N
name	La Passione
type	Soundtrack
artist	Chris Rea
cover	La_Passione.jpg
released	1996
length	54:50
label	East West
producer	Chris Rea
reviews	*Allmusic [ link]
last album	The Best of Chris Rea (1994)
this album	La Passione (1996)
next album	The Blue Cafe (1998) }}

La Passione is a 1996 album by Chris Rea, and the soundtrack for the movie with the same title, also written by Rea. Shirley Bassey provides vocals on two tracks.

Track listing

All songs by Chris Rea. # "La Passione" (Film Theme) - 4:55 # "Dov'è II Signore?" - 6:04 # "Shirley Do You Own a Ferrari?" (Vocals Chris Rea/Shirley Bassey) - 4:43 # "Girl in a Sports Car" - 5:16 # "When the Grey Skies Turn to Blue" - 3:43 # "Horses" - 3:05 # "Olive Oil" - 4:26 # "Only to Fly" - 5:42 # "You Must Follow" - 5:29 # "'Disco' La Passione" (Vocals: Shirley Bassey) - 4:57 # "Dov'è II Signore? Pt. 2" - 2:31 # "Le Mans" - 3:59

External links

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Coordinates	26°12′44″N127°40′45″N
Name	Chris Rea
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Christopher Anton Rea
Birth date	March 04, 1951
Origin	Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England
Instrument	Vocals, guitar, piano
Genre	Pop rock, Soft rock, Blues rock
Occupation	Musician, singer-songwriter
Years active	1978–present
Associated acts	The Memphis Fireflies
Label	Magnet, East West, Edel }}

Chris Rea ( ) (born Christopher Anton Rea, 4 March 1951, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England) is an English singer-songwriter, recognisable for his distinctive, husky voice and slide guitar playing. The British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with his 18th chart entry; "The Road to Hell (Part 2)". By 2009, Rea had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

He is well known for his 1978 hit song "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" that charted #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at #1 on the U.S. Billboard adult contemporary chart. The song was later covered by Elkie Brooks and was a top 20 hit in the UK.

Although Rea had limited success in the United States, two of his albums, The Road to Hell and Auberge, topped the UK Albums Chart.

Biography

Early life

Rea was born on 4 March 1951, as the son of a Middlesbrough ice-cream dairy manager. Beyond this, few details of his younger life were known as of February 2011. He attended Stainsby Secondary School which was segregated between girls and boys. (Now called Acklam Grange Secondary School) and it was the influence for his track 'Stainsby Girls' in 1985.

Early career

After leaving school Rea worked in casual labouring jobs, including working in his father's ice cream business. It was at the comparatively late age of 22 that Rea bought his first guitar and began his musical career, inspired by the music of Joe Walsh and Ry Cooder. A natural left-hander, Rea nevertheless learned to play the guitar right-handed. In 1973, he joined the Middlesbrough band Magdalene, replacing David Coverdale who later created Whitesnake. Rea then went on to form the band Beautiful Losers, which he left when he secured a solo recording deal with Magnet Records in 1974. In 1977 he performed on Hank Marvin's album The Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate and also guested on Catherine Howe's EP, The Truth of the Matter.

Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? was Rea's debut album. It was released in June 1978 and produced by Elton John's music producer, Gus Dudgeon. The title of the album was a reference to "Benjamin Santini," the stage name that Rea's record label suggested he should adopt. The first single taken from the album, "Fool (If You Think It's Over)," was Rea's biggest hit in the United States, peaking at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching #1 on the Adult Contemporary Singles chart. "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" was nominated for a Song of the Year Grammy, losing out to Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are". Like most of Rea's early singles, "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart on its first release, and only reached #30 when re-released in late 1978 to capitalise on its US achievement. It was also the first record played by Radio Caroline, after a long period off the air. Another cover of "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" by Kenny Craddock was used as the theme tune for BBC sitcom, Joking Apart.

Dudgeon went on to produce Rea's next album, entitled Deltics. Rea has since spoken about the difficult working relationship that he had with Dudgeon at the time, who he felt 'smoothed out' the blues influenced elements of his music in order to make it sound more like that of Elton John or Billy Joel.

Rea's second and third albums failed to provide any further hit singles. By the time his fourth album was released, Rea's relationship with his record company had deteriorated to the extent that it was not even given a title but was simply called "Chris Rea".

European breakthrough

By 1983 Rea's record company had become so uninterested in him that they released the raw demo tapes as his fifth studio album. The album, entitled "Water Sign", became a surprise hit in Ireland and mainland Europe, selling over half a million in just a few months and the single "I Can Hear Your Heartbeat" taken from it entered the top 20 across Europe. In 2002, Rea released Dancing Down the Stony Road following recording sessions in France and the UK. (An abridged version of the album was later released under the title Stony Road.) The album was followed by a DVD of the same name, comprising a documentary and footage from a concert in Cologne. Rea set up his own JazzeeBlue label in 2003 to free himself from the pressure of record company expectations. Since then he has released the blues albums Blue Street (Five Guitars) (an instrumental jazz-blues album) and then The Blue Jukebox. He has worked with David Knopfler for two albums: Wishbones (2001) and Ship of Dreams (2004).

Blue Guitars and retirement

Following the release of the box set, Blue Guitars, in 2005, it was announced that Rea would not record any further solo albums. He has stated that he would continue to make records with some of his favourite players under the name The Memphis Fireflies. A double DVD set and a separate double CD set was released in 2006, including live selections from Rea's farewell tour entitled The Road To Hell & Back.

The return

In November 2007, Rea announced a new tour and a new album featuring 38 new tracks on three CDs and two vinyls, which included a hardback book in the style of a slightly tatty 12" vinyl sleeve. The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Blue Notes (a dedication to the 1960s guitar of the same name) was released in February 2008. In writing the album, Rea dreamed up a band that had never existed — a pastiche instrumental group from the late 1950s called The Delmonts.

The release of the album was followed by a European tour. The band was introduced as "The Delmonts featuring Chris Rea", and played in various venues across the UK, including the Royal Albert Hall in London.

His song "Driving Home for Christmas", which originally reached #53 in the UK chart when first released in 1988, re-entered at #33 nineteen years later in December 2007, making it the first time the song had made the UK Top 40.

In October 2009, Rhino released a new 2-disc best of compilation. Still So Far To Go - The Best of Chris Rea contained some of his best known hits over the last thirty years, many of them less well known, as well as more recent songs from his "blues" period. There are also two new songs "Come So Far, Yet Still So Far to Go" and the ballad "Valentino", a song about his dog that had died. The album was Rea's highest charting album in 15 years, reaching #8 and staying in the Top 50 for four weeks.

In 2010 Rea performed on a European tour called Still So Far to Go. His special guest on stage was an Irish musician Paul Casey. The tour ended on 5 April in Belfast, United Kingdom.

In September 2011, Chris Rea will release "The Santo Spirito Project" containing two feature-length films on DVD written and directed by Chris and 2 accompanying CDs of related songs and music.

Family life

Rea is the son of Camillo Rea,(died December 2010) an immigrant from Italy and Winifred, of Irish descent (died September 1983). He has two brothers, Nick and Mike, and four sisters, Catherine, Geraldine, Paula and Camille.

He is married to Joan, with whom he has two daughters (Josephine, born 16 September 1983, and Julia Christina, born 18 March 1989). He used to live at Sol Mill in Cookham, Berkshire. This property also contained the Sol Mill Recording Studios where he produced some of his later albums. He also produced albums for other artists such as Sylvin Marc, and Robert Ahwai on his JazeeBlue label. The property was sold in 2006.

The name Rea was well-known locally thanks to the chain of "Rea's Ice Cream" shops owned by Rea's father. In later years the chain folded except for one shop operated by Camillo himself. Chris Rea holds a season ticket with Middlesbrough F.C..

Other interests

Rea is a huge fan of motor racing and races a Ferrari Dino and a 1955 Lotus 6. He recorded a song, "Saudade," in tribute to three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna. It featured prominently in the BBC documentary that can be watched in full here (UK users only) and was released on The Very Best of Chris Rea (2001).

Politics

In August 2008, it was erroneously reported that Rea had donated £25,000 to the Conservative Party. This was followed by further incorrect reports in April 2010, just weeks before the UK general election, that Rea had donated a further £100,000 to the Conservatives. The donations were in fact made by a businessman called Chris Rea and not the musician. This error has been acknowledged by The Daily Mail newspaper, which printed a retraction. The Times reported in 2009 that Rea has been a longtime supporter of the Conservative Party. Rea supported the Conservative Candidate for Middlesbrough in the 2010 general election by allowing use of his song "Steel River" to highlight the plight of the local Corus steel workers who had lost their jobs.

Films

Rea has also been an actor, playing the lead in the 1999 comedy film, Parting Shots, alongside John Cleese, Bob Hoskins and Joanna Lumley. Rea played a character who was told that cancer gave him six weeks to live, and decided to kill those people who had badly affected his life.

He also had a cameo role in the 1996 film, La Passione, for which he wrote the soundtrack.

References in Rea's lyrics

Rea has acknowledged that many of his songs were 'born out of Middlesbrough,' his home town. Perhaps the most famous of these is the song "Stainsby Girls," from the album Shamrock Diaries, which he wrote and composed in tribute to his wife Joan, who had attended Stainsby Secondary Modern School years before it was renamed Acklam Grange Secondary School. The song "Steel River," on the same album, reflects Rea's feelings about the re-development of Middlesbrough town centre while he was out of the country touring: "Steel River" is also another name for the River Tees. In the song there is a mention of 'salmon who have lost their steel mother' and, in the 1980s, it looked like they were gone for good. However, salmon stocks are slowly beginning to recover.

Discography

Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? (1978)

Deltics (1979)

Tennis (1980)

Chris Rea (1982)

Water Sign (1983)

Wired to the Moon (1984)

Shamrock Diaries (1985)

On the Beach (1986)

Dancing with Strangers (1987)

The Road to Hell (1989)

Auberge (1991)

God's Great Banana Skin (1992)

Espresso Logic (1993)

La Passione (1996)

The Blue Cafe (1998)

The Road to Hell: Part 2 (1999)

King of the Beach (2000)

Dancing Down the Stony Road / Stony Road (2002)

Blue Street (Five Guitars) (2003)

Hofner Blue Notes (2003)

The Blue Jukebox (2004)

''Blue Guitars (2005)

The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes (2008)

Still So Far To Go: The Best of Chris Rea (2009)

Santo Spirito Blues (2011)

References

External links

Official site

Fan site

Fan site

Official site of Rea's record label, JazzeeBlue

IMDb Parting Shots

Interview on the Britsound Radio Show, November 2005

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Coordinates	26°12′44″N127°40′45″N
Name	Shirley Bassey
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Shirley Veronica Bassey
Born	January 08, 1937Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Instrument	Vocals
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1953–present
Genre	Popular music
Label	Philips, Columbia, United Artists, Decca, Geffen
Website	}}

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE (born 8 January 1937 in Cardiff, Wales), is a Welsh singer who found fame in the late 1950s and has continued a successful career since then worldwide. She is best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979), and is a UNESCO Artist for Peace.

Birth to 1959

Shirley Bassey was born the last child of Eliza Jane (née Start) and Henry Bassey in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, of paternal Nigerian and maternal English descent. She grew up in the nearby working-class dockside district of Splott. After leaving Splott Secondary Modern School at the age of fourteen, Bassey first found employment packing at a local factory while singing in local public houses and clubs in the evenings and weekends. In 1953, she signed her first professional contract, to sing in a touring variety show Memories of Jolson, a musical based on the life of Al Jolson. She next took up a professional engagement in Hot from Harlem, which ran until 1954. By this time Bassey had become disenchanted with show business, and had become pregnant at 16 with her daughter Sharon, so she went back to waitressing in Cardiff. However, in 1955, a chance recommendation of her to Michael Sullivan, a booking agent, put her firmly on course for her destined career. He saw talent in Bassey, and decided he would make her a star. She toured various theatres until she got an offer of the show that put her firmly on the road to stardom, Al Read's Such Is Life at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End. While she starred in this show, Philips A&R; and record producer Johnny Franz spotted her on television, was impressed, and offered her a recording deal. Bassey recorded her first single, entitled "Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)", and Philips released it in February 1956, when Bassey was just nineteen. Owing to the suggestive lyrics, the BBC banned it, but it sold well nonetheless, backed with her powerful rendition of "Stormy Weather". Further singles followed, and in February 1957, Bassey had her first hit with "Banana Boat Song", which reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart. During that year, she also recorded under the direction of American producer Mitch Miller in New York for the Columbia label, producing the single "If I Had a Needle and Thread" b/w "Tonight My Heart She Is Crying". She then travelled to Las Vegas to make her American stage debut at the El Rancho Vegas. In mid-1958, she recorded two singles that would become classics in the Bassey catalogue. "As I Love You" was released as the B-side of another ballad, "Hands Across the Sea"; it did not sell well at first, but after a chance appearance at the London Palladium things began to pick up. In January 1959, it reached number one and stayed there for four weeks. It thus became the first number one single by a Welsh artist. Bassey also recorded "Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me" at this point, and while "As I Love You" raced up the charts, so too did this record, with both songs being in the top three at the same time. A few months later, Bassey signed to EMI's Columbia label, and the second phase in her recording career had begun.

1960 to 1979

In the early and mid 1960s, Bassey had numerous hits on the UK charts, and five albums in the top 15. Her 1960 recording of "As Long As He Needs Me" from Lionel Bart's Oliver! reached #2, and had a chart run of 30 weeks. In 1962, Bassey's collaboration with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra produced the album Let's Face the Music (#12) and the single "What Now My Love" (#5). Other top ten hits of the period included her second #1, the double A-side "Reach for the Stars"/"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" (1961), "I'll Get By" (also 1961), and a cover version of the Ben E. King hit "I (Who Have Nothing)" in 1963. During this period, Bassey appeared on the cover of Ebony magazine and sang at a Washington gala celebrating the end of President Kennedy's second year in office.

In 1965, Bassey enjoyed her first—and only—U.S. Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit with the title song of the James Bond film, Goldfinger. The single peaked at #8, while the original soundtrack of Goldfinger hit #1 in the U.S. that same year. Also in 1965, she sang the title track for the spoof James Bond film The Liquidator, and had a Top 20 live album recorded during a sell-out run at London's Pigalle.

From 1964 onwards the "Goldfinger" single had a lasting impact on her career: writing for the sleeve notes of Bassey's 25th Anniversary Album, Clayton (1978) notes that: "Acceptance in America was considerably helped by the enormous popularity of (Goldfinger)...But she had actually established herself there as early as 1961, in cabaret in New York. She was also a success in Las Vegas...'I suppose I should feel hurt that I've never been really big in America on record since Goldfinger...But, concertwise, I always sell out.'..." This was reflected in the fact that Bassey had only one solo LP to reach the Top 20 in a US chart (R&B;, Live at Carnegie Hall), and she was technically a "one-hit wonder," making only one appearance in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, "Goldfinger". But in the aftermath of "Goldfinger" her UK sales started to falter as well: only two of her singles would enter the UK top 40 until 1970. She had signed to United Artists, and her first album on that label, 1966's I've Got a Song for You, spent one week on the chart; from there until 1970, only two albums would chart, one of those a compilation. In 1967 came the release of one of her best-known singles "Big Spender", although it charted just outside the UK Top 20.

Bassey started living as a tax exile in 1968, and was not permitted to work in Britain for almost two years. Also in 1968, at the Sanremo Festival in Italy, she performed "La vita", an Italian song by Bruno Canfora and Antonio Amurri, with some lyrics re-written in English by Norman Newell for her performance. Her version of the song with chorus sung in Italian became a Top 40 hit on the Italian chart, and Bassey recorded several songs in Italian, some appearing on a 1968 Italian album titled La vita. (Later, Newell would write English lyrics for the rest of "La vita", and the result was "This Is My Life".) But her UK sales continued to suffer.

Bassey's UK comeback came in 1970, leading to one of the most successful periods of her career. In this year, she returned to the UK with a record breaking run of performances at the Talk of the Town nightclub. Also in that year, she released the album Something, which showcased a new Bassey style, a shift from traditional pop to more contemporary songs and arrangements (the single of the same name was more successful in the UK charts than the original Beatles recording - the only artist to have achieved this), though Bassey would never completely abandon what had been her forte, standards, show tunes, and torch songs. "Something" was also a Top 10 U.S. hit on the Adult Contemporary chart. Other singles of this period included top ten hits "For All We Know" (1971) and "Never Never Never" (1973) – the latter reaching the Top 10 in the U.S. Adult Contemporary Chart, the UK Top 10 and and number one in Australia and South Africa. The success of "Something" (single #4, album #5) spawned a series of successful albums on the UA label, including Something Else (1971), And I Love You So (1972), I Capricorn (1972), Never Never Never (1973), Good, Bad but Beautiful (1975), Love, Life and Feelings (1976), You Take My Heart Away (1977) and Yesterdays (1978). Bernard Ighner wrote and duetted with Bassey for the track "Davy" on the Nobody Does It Like Me album (1974). Additionally, two of Bassey's earlier LPs entered the charts, 1967's And We Were Lovers (re-issued as Big Spender), and 1962's Let's Face the Music (re-issued as What Now My Love). Two compilations, The Shirley Bassey Singles Album (1975) and 25th Anniversary Album (1978) both made the UK top three: The Shirley Bassey Singles Album her highest charting album at No. 2 and earning a gold disc, and 25th Anniversary Album going platinum.

Between 1970 and 1979, Bassey had 18 hit albums in the UK Albums Chart. In 1976 Bassey starred in the six-episode The Shirley Bassey Show, the first of her television programs for the BBC, followed by a second series of six episodes in 1979. The final show of the first series was nominated for the Golden Rose of Montreux in 1977. The series featured guests including Neil Diamond, Michel Legrand, The Three Degrees and Dusty Springfield; filmed in various locations throughout the world as well as in the studio.

In 1978 Bassey pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly "after shouting abuse in the street and pushing a policeman".

Bassey closed out the decade with her third title theme for the Bond films, Moonraker (1979).

1980 to 1999

Throughout most of the 1980s, Bassey focused on charitable work and performing occasional concert tours throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States, having ended her contract with EMI-United Artists and taking what she referred to as 'semi-retirement'. In 1982 Bassey recorded an album entitled All by Myself and made a TV special for Thames Television called A Special Lady with guest Robert Goulet. In 1983 she recorded a duet with Alain Delon, "Thought I'd Ring You", which became a hit single in Europe. Bassey was now recording far less often but released an album in 1984 of her most famous songs, I Am What I Am, performed with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carl Davis. In 1986, she released a single and video to support the London Tourist Board, There's No Place Like London co-written by Lynsey de Paul and Gerard Kenny. In 1987 she recorded an album of James Bond themes, The Bond Collection, but was apparently unhappy with the results, as she declined to release it. (Five years later it was released anyway, Bassey sued in court, and all unsold copies were withdrawn.) Also in 1987, Bassey provided vocals for Swiss artists Yello on "The Rhythm Divine", a song co-written by Scottish singer Billy Mackenzie. In 1989 she released an album sung entirely in Spanish, La Mujer. In the latter mid-1980s Bassey had started working with a vocal coach, a former opera singer, and her 1991 album Keep the Music Playing displayed a grand, operatic pop style on several songs (perhaps also influenced by her album with the LSO seven years earlier).

In 1994 EMI released the five-CD box set Bassey – The EMI/UA Years 1959 – 1979. The accompanying booklet opened with a poem by Marc Almond. In 1996, Bassey collaborated with Chris Rea in the film La Passione, appearing in the film as herself and releasing the single "'Disco' La Passione". The remix of this single proved a major club hit throughout Europe, though charting just outside the UK top 40. Bassey released a new recording the following year, "History Repeating", written for her by the Propellerheads and scoring a #1 on the UK Dance Chart, and #10 on the US Dance Chart. It was also a top ten hit in Italy. The liner notes of the Propellerheads' album Decksandrumsandrockandroll included the lines "We would like to extend our maximum respect to Shirley Bassey for honouring us with her performance. We are still in shock ..." Bassey celebrated her 60th birthday in 1997 with two open-air concerts, at Castle Howard and Althorp Park, and another TV special. The resulting live album The Birthday Concert received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. On 7 October 1998 in Egypt, Bassey performed for a benefit at an open air concert close to the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid.

In the 1998 film Little Voice, Bassey was one of three central figures along with Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland, and Bassey's track "Goldfinger" featured in the movie. Jane Horrocks, the lead actress in the film, went on to impersonate Bassey both on record and television, as well as during a UK tour.

In 1998 Bassey was sued by her former personal assistant in a breach of contract case, who also accused Bassey of hitting her and making an ethnic slur. Bassey won the case. The episode was lampooned by Alexander Baron in his one-act play, The Trial of Shirley Bassey.

In 1999, she performed the official song for the Rugby World Cup, "World in Union", with Bryn Terfel at the opening ceremony at The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, wearing a gown designed on the Welsh flag. Their single made the Top 40, and Bassey contributed two more songs to the official album Land of My Fathers, which reached #1 on the UK compilations chart, and went silver.

2000 to date

In 2001, Bassey was principal artiste at the Duke of Edinburgh's 80th Birthday celebration. On 3 June 2002 Shirley Bassey was one of a prestigious line up of artists including Elton John, Paul McCartney, Queen, The Corrs, Annie Lennox, Eric Clapton, Tony Bennett, Clidd Richards, Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Ricky Martin, Phil Collins and Tom Jones who performed at the Queen’s 50th Jubilee Party at Buckingham Palace. Then, in 2003, Bassey celebrated 50 years in show business, releasing the CD Thank You for the Years, which was another Top 20 album. A gala charity auction of her stage costumes at Christie's, 'Dame Shirley Bassey: 50 Years of Glittering Gowns', raised £250,000 (US$500,000) for the Dame Shirley Bassey Scholarship at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital Appeal. Bassey topped the bill at the 2005 Royal Variety Performance, introducing her new song "The Living Tree".

Two popular Audiences with Shirley Bassey have aired on British TV, one in 1995 that attracted more than 10 million viewers in the UK, with the most recent in 2006. Bassey returned to perform in five arenas around the UK in June the same year, culminating at Wembley. She also performed a concert in front of 10,000 people at the Bryn Terfel Faenol Festival in North Wales broadcast by BBC Wales.

Marks & Spencer signed her for their Christmas 2006 'James Bond style' TV advertising campaign. Bassey is seen in a glamorous Ice Palace singing a cover version of Pink's song "Get the Party Started", wearing an M&S; gown.

"The Living Tree", written, produced and originally recorded by the group Never the Bride, was released as a single on 23 April 2007, marking Bassey's 50th anniversary in the UK Singles Chart – and the record for the longest span of Top 40 hits in UK chart history. A new album, Get the Party Started, was subsequently released on 25 June 2007 and entered the UK Albums Chart at #6. The single of the title song reached #3 on the U.S. Dance Chart. The same year, Bassey performed "Big Spender" with Elton John at his annual White Tie and Tiara Ball to raise money for The Elton John AIDS Foundation. In 2007, Bassey performed in Fashion Rocks in aid of The Prince's Trust at the Royal Albert Hall.

She was rushed to hospital in Monaco on 23 May 2008 to have an emergency operation on her stomach after complaining of abdominal pains. She was forced to pull out of the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute concert because of her illness. A biography, Diamond Diva, was published in 2008. In 2009 her granddaughter appeared on The X Factor.

In 2009 Bassey recorded a new album, The Performance, with James Bond composer David Arnold as co-producer (with Mike Dixon). A number of artists wrote songs expressly for Bassey, including Manic Street Preachers, Gary Barlow, KT Tunstall, Pet Shop Boys, Nick Hodgson of the Kaiser Chiefs, John Barry and Don Black.

Bassey headlined at the BBC Electric Proms on 23 October 2009, in her only full live set of 2009.

In November 2009, she performed several of the new songs from The Performance on various TV shows: The Graham Norton Show, The Paul O'Grady Show and as the guest singer on Strictly Come Dancing.

Bassey performed at the Rainforest Foundation Fund 21st Birthday concert at Carnegie Hall, New York City on 13 May 2010.

On 30 March 2011, Bassey performed at a gala celebrating the 80th birthday of Mikhail Gorbachev. She also performed at the Classical Brit Awards in 2011, singing "Goldfinger" in tribute to John Barry.

On 20 June 2011, Bassey sang "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Goldfinger", accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, at the John Barry Memorial Concert the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Personal life

Bassey's first marriage was to Kenneth Hume (1961–65) and ended in divorce. In September 1965 Bassey announced her intention to re-marry Hume, but less than a year later revealed that this would not take place. Her second husband was Sergio Novak. Bassey and Novak were married from 1968 until they divorced in 1977; Novak served as Bassey's manager throughout this time. Bassey had two daughters, Sharon and Samantha. With Novak she also adopted her great-nephew, Mark. In 1985, 21-year-old Samantha Novak was found dead in the River Avon in Bristol, England. Bassey has always maintained that the death of her daughter was not a suicide. On 24 March 2010, Avon and Somerset Police confirmed they were undertaking fresh inquiries into the death of Novak, and specifically claims that the convicted killer Michael Moffat was involved in her death. However, in October 2010 it was reported that the investigation came to an end, and concluded that there "is no evidence of any criminal act involved" in Novak's death.

Bassey currently resides in Monte Carlo.

Awards and achievements

In recognition of her career longevity, and admiration from the British Royal Family, Bassey was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) on 31 December 1999 by HM Queen Elizabeth II. She was invited to perform in 2002 at the Party at the Palace, a public celebration of the Queen's Golden Jubilee. She was awarded France's top honour, the Legion d'Honneur, to signify her popularity and importance in the culture of France.

1972 – Best Female Singer – TV Times

1973 – Best Female Singer – TV Times

1974 – Best Female Entertainer – American Guild of Variety Artists

1976 – Best Female Singer – Music Week

1976 – 22-day British tour to mark twenty years as a recording artist

1976 – EMI Award for twenty years as a recording artist – UK

1977 – Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years – BRIT Award

1977 – Golden Rose of Montreux nomination for The Shirley Bassey Show

1991 – Walk of Fame, Star Boulevard – plaque unveiled in Rotterdam

1993 – CBE – Commander of the Order of the British Empire

1995 – Showbusiness Personality of the Year – Variety Club of Great Britain

1997 – Grammy nomination – The Birthday Concert (recorded live at Althorp Park)

1998 – Longest run by a solo artist (ten shows) – Royal Festival Hall, London

1999 – Légion d'Honneur – France

1999 – Madam Tussaud's waxwork unveiled in London (second model in Las Vegas)

2000 – DBE – Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2000 – Most Successful British Female Singer – Guinness Book of Records 2003 – Outstanding Contribution to Music – National Music Awards, UK 2003 – Lifetime Achievement Award (inaugural award) – Western Mail Welsh Woman of the Year Awards

2004 – 100 Great Black Britons, Bassey voted into the top ten

2004 – Artist for Peace Award – UNESCO

2005 – Avenue of Stars – plaque unveiled in London

2008 – "Goldfinger" – United Artists single (1964) inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame

Discography

Bibliography

Miss Shirley Bassey - John L. Williams (2010)

Shirley Bassey: Diamond Diva – Peter Hogan (2008)

Cardiff: Rebirth of a Capital (Foreword by Shirley Bassey) – Ungersma, Hurn (2005)

Shirley Bassey: Welsh History Stories – Evans, Stokes, ap Emlyn, ap Emlyn (2003)

Shirley Bassey: An appreciation – Muriel Burgess (1998, reprinted 1999)

My Life on Record and in Concert – Shirley Bassey (Bloomsbury, 1998)

The Trial of Shirley Bassey – A Play in One Act – Alexander Baron (1998)

Shirley Bassey: This Is My Life (Piano/vocal/guitar) – Sheet music book

Shirley Bassey: You're the Voice (Piano/vocal/guitar) – Sheet music book

Guinness Book of British Hit Singles – 14th Edition – ISBN 0-85156-156-X

Guinness Book of British Hit Singles – 16th Edition – ISBN 0-85112-190-X

Guinness Book of British Hit Albums – 7th Edition – ISBN 0-85112-619-7

The Book of Golden Discs – 2nd Edition – ISBN 0-214-20512-6

The Guinness Book Of 500 Number One Hits – ISBN 0-85112-250-7

See also

List of best-selling music artists

References

External links

Dame Shirley Bassey — official website

Shirley Bassey discography at Discogs

The Bassey Blog — fansite

The Songs of Shirley Bassey (archived site) — interviews with Shirley Bassey, plus an extensive discography

The Dame Shirley Bassey Message Board — forum fansite

Bassified.com — extensive CD discography

Shirleybassey.nl — extensive CD discography with tracklists

Shirley Bassey biography on BBC Wales

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Offer Nissim () is a popular Israeli DJ and producer. He was born in 1964 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Nissim produces house music in mostly tribal, hard and progressive styles, including exclusive tracks featuring female vocalists (most notably Dana International and Maya Simantov) and Meital De Razon. Annually he performs his highly energetic, diva-heavy sets in Mexico, Brazil, New York, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Tel-Aviv etc.

Nissim has remixed a large repertoire for artists such as Madonna, Donna Summer, Deborah Cox, Kristine W, Ivri Lider, Dana International, Christina Aguilera and many more. He has been described by some as a "musical archaeologist."

In April 2007, Nissim released a double CD mixed album called Forever Tel Aviv. The album features several of his latest remixes along with tracks from other DJ's. Guest artists include Maya Simantov, Beyoncé, Suzanne Palmer, Christina Aguilera, Donna Summer and Angie Stone, among others.

In 2008, Nissim released another double CD mixed album called "Happy People". The album features several tracks with Maya Simantov and remixes of various artists, including Shirley Bassey, Deborah Cox, Suzanne Palmer, Tony Moran, and Captain Hollywood Project's "More and More".

Nissim is also well known for being a supporter of the gay community regularly producing tracks featuring vocals provided by a transsexual (Dana International), as well as headling parties in Israel that are for men only.

Production credits

Dana International

1993 Dana International (Album

1994 UMPATAMPA (Album)

1995 E.P. Tampa (E.P)

1996 Maganona (Album)

1996 Chinquamilla (Single)

1998 Diva (Winning Song of Eurovision 98')

1999 Free (Album)

1999 Free (Single)

1999 Woman In Love (Single)

Original Productions

2001

Offer Nissim ft. Sonny - Now Is The Time

2002

Offer Nissim ft. Mickiyagi - I'm So Excited

2003

Offer Nissim ft. Mickiyagi - Love Takes You

2004

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Searching

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - That's The Way I Like It

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Only You

2005

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Alone

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Anything

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - First Time

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Rain

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Heartbreaking

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Summer Night City

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Kol A'holam

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - On My Own

Offer Nissim Vs. Intermission - Piece of My Heart

Offer Nissim ft. Amuka - I Want More

2006

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Perfect Love

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Be My Boyfriend

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - For Your Love

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - First Time (When I'm With You Ver.)

2007

Offer Nissim ft. Ivri Lider - Nights in White Satin

Offer Nissim ft. Amir Fay-Guttman - Always

Offer Nissim ft. Assaf Amdursky - Wild is The Wind

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Wish You Where Here

2008

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Happy People

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - I'm In Love

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Why

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Love

Offer Nissim ft. Ohad Haeim - Change

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony - Out Of My Skin

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony - Believe In Me

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony - One More Night

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony - Knowing Me Knowing You

Offer Nissim ft. Symphony Extreme - Remember My Name

Offer Nissim ft. Symphony Extreme - I Close My Eyes

2009

Offer Nissim - Bimbo

Offer Nissim - Rhythm Of The Nile

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Hook Up

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Illusion

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - You'll Never Know

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Tel-Aviv

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Superman

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Holding on

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Cuando

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony - Story Ending

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony - Mr. Charming

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony - Boxing Ring

2010

Offer Nissim - Out Of My Skin (Turkish Ver.)

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Over You

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - It Was Love

Offer Nissim ft. Maya - You Were So Right

Offer Nissim ft. Shlomi Saranga - Essi

Offer Nissim ft. Nikka – The One and Only

Offer Nissim ft. Mickiyagi – Freedom to Ya'All

Offer Nissim ft. Maya – Freak Control

Offer Nissim – Sound of Bamboo

2011

Offer Nissim ft. Maya – La Bez'

Offer Nissim ft. Maya Simantov, Meital de Razon & Maya Buskila - Love Child

Offer Nissim – Sevillia Nights

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony – Million Stars

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony – Break My World

Offer Nissim ft. Maya & Vanessa Klein – Breaking Away

Offer Nissim pres. The Dynasty Season – The Children

Offer Nissim ft. Omri Mizrachi – Don’t Stop the Dance

Offer Nissim ft. Maya – I'd Give You All I Have

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony – Drip Drop

Offer Nissim ft. Epiphony & Gabriel Butler – Hands On

Official Remixes

2002

Rita - Ma'wal (Offer Nissim Remix)

2004

Ivri Lider - Beautiful Eyes (Oriental Dub Remix)

2005

Suzanne Palmer - Home (Offer Nissim Remix pt.1,2)

Suzzanne Palmer - Fascinated (Offer Nissim Remix)

Kristine W - Wonder of it All (Offer Nissim Mix)

Deborah Cooper -Live You All Over (Offer Nissim Remix)

Club69 - Twisted (2005 Rework)

Deborah Cox - Easy as Life (Offer Nissim Remix)

Rita - Jerusalem of Gold (Dub Remix)

Ivri Lider - Cinderella Rockefella (Dub Remix)

Ofra Haza - Love Song (Offer Nissim Remix)

2006

Tony Moran - Something About You (Offer Nissim Remix pt.1,2&3)

Suzzanne Palmer - Keep The Faith (Offer Nissim Remix)

Angie Stone - I Wish I Didn't Miss You (Offer Nissim Remix)

Fairuz - Eastern Drums (Offer Nissim Dub Remix)

Christina Aguilera - Hurt (Offer Nissim Remix)

2007

Beyonce - One Night Only (Offer Nissim Remix)

Beyonce - Deja-Vu (Offer Nissim Remix)

Suzzanne Palmer - Free My Love (Offer Nissim Remix)

Kristine W - Be Alright (Offer Nissim Remix)

Donna Summer - Power of Love (Offer Nissim Remix)

Alain Chamfort - Manureva (2007 Rework)

Amuka - Appreciate Me at Night (Offer Nissim Mash-up)

Sarit Hadad - Ze Sh'shomer Alay (Offer Nissim & Yinon Yahel Remix)

Santa Esmeralda - Cha Cha Cha (Offer Nissim Remix)

2008

Deborah Cox - Everybody Dance (Offer Nissim Remix)

Shirley Bassey - La Passione (Offer Nissim Remix)

Suzanne Palmer - Eye Can See You (Offer Nissim Remix)

Jennifer Lopez - Que Hiciste (Offer Nissim Remix)

Dana International - Petra (2008 Reconstruction)

Dana International - Maganuna (Reconstruction)

Captain Hollywood - More and More (2008 Reconstruction)

Erin Hamilton - Flame 2008 (Offer Nissim Remix)

Christina Aguilera - Candyman (Offer Nissim Remix)

Betty - Poison (Reconstruction)

Ofra Haza - Latet (Reconstruction)

Kadoc - Night Train (Offer Nissim Edit)

Culture Beat - Your Love (Offer Nissim Remix)

2009

Maya - Bringing You Home (Offer Nissim Reconstruction)

Suzanne Palmer - You Stepped Into My Life

2010

Shoshana D'amari - Still Here (Offer Nissim Remix)

Ivri Lider - Fuck Off Berlin (Offer Nissim Remix)

Anita Meyer – Why Tell Me Why (Offer Nissim Remix)

Lara Catherine – Nuit Magique (Offer Nissim Remix)

2011

Ivri Lider – 21 Seconds (Offer Nissim Remix)

Unofficial Remixes/bootlegs

2004

Talk Talk - Such a Shame (Offer Nissim Remix)

2005

Madonna vs. ABBA - Hung up vs. Gimme (Offer Nissim Mash-up)

Madonna - Issac vs. Ofra Haza (Offer Nissim Remix)

Madonna - Jump (Offer Nissim Remix)

Abba - SOS (Offer Nissim Remix)

2006

Lime - Unexpected Lover (2006 Reconstruction)

Vanessa Pardise - Joe Le Taxi (Offer Nissim Remix)

2007

Christina Aguilera - Tell Me / Missteree (Offer Nissim Remix)

2008

Madonna - Beat Goes On (Offer Nissim Remix)

Madonna - She's Not Me (Offer Nissim Remix)

Britney Spears vs. Captain Hollywood - Give More and More (Offer Nissim Remix)

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 2008 (Offer Nissim Remix pt.1,2)

J.J. Goldman - La Vie Par Procuration (2008 Reconstruction)

Johnny Holiday - Que Je T'aime (Offer Nissim Remix)

Rihanna - Disturbia (Offer Nissim Remix)

2009

Madonna - Like A Prayer (Jerusalem Prayer's Remix)

Mariah Carey vs. Maya - I'm That Chick (Offer Nissim Remix)

Whitney Houston - I Didn't Know My Own Strength (Offer Nissim Remix)

Depech Mode - Wrong (Peter Rauhoffer Nissim Mix)

David Bowie - Let's Denz (Offer Nissim Edit)

Junior Vasquez - When Madonna Calls (2009 Dub Mix)

Barbra Streisand - Avinu Malkeinu (Offer Nissim Remix)

Supertramp - Logical Song (Reconstruction 2009)

2010

Mylène Farmer - Tristana (Offer Nissim Remix)

Rihanna - Russian Roulette (Offer Nissim Remix)

Joe Dassin – Et Si Tu N'existais Pas (Offer Nissim Remix)

2011

Hot Chip – I Feel Better (Offer Nissim Remix)

Freddie Mercury – Barcelona (Offer Nissim 2011 Mix)

Britney Spears – Till The World Ends (Offer Nissim Kinky Mix)

Britney Spears – Till The World Ends (Offer Nissim Lovers Mix)

References

External links

Offer Nissim's Website

Offer Nissim's Website (2)

Offer Nissim's MySpace Page

Offer Nissim's International Fans Site

Offer Nissim's fan site | Israel

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Coordinates	26°12′44″N127°40′45″N
Name	Saint Matthew the Evangelist
Birth date	|death_date
Feast day	21 September (Western Christianity)16 November (Eastern Christianity)
Venerated in	Roman Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox ChurchesEastern Catholic ChurchesAnglican CommunionLutheran Churchsome other Protestant Churches
Death place	near Hierapolis or Ethiopia
Titles	Apostle, Evangelist, Martyr
Canonized date	pre-congregation
Attributes	Angel
Patronage	Accountants, Salerno, Italy, and others, see
Major shrine	Salerno, Italy
Prayer	Jesus saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office, and he said to him: "Follow me". Jesus saw Matthew, not merely in the usual sense, but more significantly with his merciful understanding of men."
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Matthew the Evangelist (מתי/מתתיהו, "Gift of Yahweh", Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; Septuagint , Matthaios) was, according to the Bible, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the four Evangelists.

Identity

Among the early followers and apostles of Jesus, a Matthew is mentioned in and as a former tax collector from Capernaum who was called into the circle of the Twelve by Jesus. He is also named among the number of the Twelve, but without identification of his background, in , and . He is often equated with the figure of Levi, son of Alpheus, also a tax collector, who is mentioned in and . He may have collected taxes from the Hebrew people for Herod Antipas. Matthew was "called" by Jesus of Nazareth to be one of the Twelve Disciples. According to the New Testament he was one of the witnesses of the Resurrection and the Ascension.

Early life

Matthew was a first century Galilean (presumably born in Galilee, which was not part of Judea or the Roman Iudaea province) and the son of Alpheus During the Roman occupation (which began in 63 BC with the conquest of Pompey), Matthew collected taxes from the Hebrew people for Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee. His Tax Office was located in Capernaum. Jews who became rich in such a fashion were despised and considered outcasts. However, as a tax collector he would have been literate in Aramaic and Greek.

It was in this setting, near what is today Almagor, that Jesus called Matthew to be one of the Twelve Disciples. After his call, Matthew invited Jesus home for a feast. On seeing this, the Scribes and the Pharisees criticized Jesus for eating with tax collectors and sinners. This prompted Jesus to answer, “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17)

Matthew's Ministry

When Matthew is mentioned in the New Testament, he is sometimes found paired with Thomas. The New Testament records that as a disciple, he followed Jesus, and was one of the witnesses of the Resurrection and the Ascension. Afterwards, the disciples withdrew to an upper room (Acts 1:10-14)(traditionally the Cenacle) in Jerusalem. The disciples remained in and about Jerusalem and proclaimed that Jesus was the promised Messiah.

Matthew may also be mentioned in the Talmud.

Matthew, for 15 years, preached the Gospel in Hebrew to the Jewish community in Judea. Later in his ministry, he would travel to Gentile nations (presumably following Jesus' Great Commission) and spread the Gospel to the Ethiopians (actually an Egyptian ancestry population by the Caucasus and not the African population in the earlier tradition of his ministry), Macedonians, Persians, and Parthians.

Matthew's Gospel

Although first of the Synoptic Gospels is technically anonymous, traditionally the Gospel of Matthew was held to be written by the apostle. As a government official in Capernaum, in "Galilee of the Gentiles", a tax-collector would probably have been literate in both Greek and Aramaic. Greek was the language used in the market-place. Some early church fathers recorded that Matthew originally wrote in "Hebrew", but still regarded the Greek text as canonical.

Many scholars today, such as Raymond E. Brown, believe that "canonical Matt[hew] was originally written in Greek by a non eyewitness whose name is unknown to us and who depended on sources like Mark and Q", a theory known as Markan priority. However some scholars, notably Craig Blomberg, disagree variously on these points. Some scholars posit a Matthean priority.

Non-canonical or Apocryphal Gospels

In the Third Century Jewish-Christian Gospels attributed to Matthew were used by Jewish-Christian groups such as the Nazarenes and Ebionites. Fragments of these Gospels survive in quotation by Jerome, Epiphanius and others. Most academic study follows the distinction of Gospel of the Nazarenes (26 fragments), Gospel of the Ebionites (7 fragments), and Gospel of the Hebrews (7 fragments) found in Schneemelcher's New Testament Apocrypha. Critical commentators generally regard these texts as having been composed in Greek and related to Greek Matthew. A minority of commentators consider them to be fragments of a lost Aramaic or Hebrew language original.

The Infancy Gospel of Matthew is a 7th Century compilation of three other texts: the Protevangelium of James, the Flight into Egypt and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.

Origen said the first Gospel was written by Matthew. This Gospel was composed in Hebrew near Jerusalem for Hebrew Christians and translated into Greek, but the Greek copy was lost. The Hebrew original was kept at the Library of Caesarea. The Nazarene Community transcribed a copy for Jerome which he used in his work. Matthew's Gospel was called the Gospel according to the Hebrews or sometimes the Gospel of the Apostles and it was once believed that it was the original to the Greek Matthew found in the Bible. However this has been challenged by modern Biblical Scholars such as Bart Ehrman and James R. Edwards.

Jerome relates that Matthew was supposed by the Nazarenes to have composed their Gospel of the Hebrews though Irenaeus and Epiphanius of Salamis consider this simply a revised version canonical Gospel. This Gospel has been partially preserved in the writings of the Church Fathers, said to have been written by Matthew. Muslim exegesis and Qur'an commentary, however, names them and includes Matthew amongst the disciples. Muslim exegesis preserves the tradition that Matthew, with Andrew, were the two disciples who went to Ethiopia to preach the message of God.

Commemoration

Matthew is recognized as a Saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Anglican churches. (see St. Matthew's Church) His feast day is celebrated on September 21 in the West, November 16 in the East (for those churches which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, 16 November currently falls on 29 November of the modern Gregorian Calendar). He is also commemorated by the Orthodox, together with the other Apostles, on 30 June (13 July), the Synaxis of the Holy Apostles. His relics are said to be preserved in the Salerno Cathedral in Italy.

Like the other evangelists, Matthew is often depicted in Christian art with one of the four living creatures of . The one that accompanies him is in the form of a winged man. The three paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where he is depicted as called by Christ from his profession as gatherer, are among the landmarks of Western art.

Patronage

Saint Matthew is the Patron Saint of accountants, bankers, bookkeepers, stock brokers and tax collectors.

See also

Gospel of Matthew

Mark the Evangelist

Luke the Evangelist

John the Evangelist

References

External links

St Matthew the Apostle from The Golden Legend

Apostle and Evangelist Matthew Orthodox icon and synaxarion

Synaxis of the Holy Apostles

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