Double-Diva-Day is upon us!
Today is the 86th birthday of our most-revered Patron Saint Dame Shirley Bassey, and, as I have mentioned many times before, she shares it with another - the desperately-missed David Bowie...
Here's my favourite anecdote from the latter, that ties the two together neatly:
“Well, backstage one night I was desperate to use the bathroom. I was dressed in my full, battle finery of Tokyo-spaceboy and a pair of shoes high enough that it induced nose bleeds.Such is the glamorous life of the megastar.“I went up to the promoter – actually I tottered over to the promoter – and I asked ‘Could you please tell me where the lavatory is?’
“And he said: ‘Yeah, look down that corridor. On the far end of that wall. You see that sink? There you go.’
“I said: ‘My good man, I’m not taking a piss in the sink.’
“He said: ‘Listen, son, if it’s good enough for Shirley Bassey it’s good enough for you.’”
Let's have a wallow in a little something from both divas...
Many happy returns, Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey (born 8th January 1937)
We still love you, David Robert Jones (8th January 1947 – 10th January 2016)
Today should be a religious holiday really.
ReplyDeleteAll our Patron Saints' birthdays should be holidays in my opinion. Jx
DeleteTwo greats. And imagine, they peed in the same sink.
ReplyDeleteThat sink should be in a museum. Jx
DeleteOr at the very least, on eBay.
DeleteUndoubtedly, there'd be a buyer. Jx
DeleteMr Bowie seems to have found an ever lasting cigarette!
ReplyDeleteChase me round and call me names...
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He didn't take a single puff through the whole song!
DeleteI'd almost forgotten just how utterly brilliant the Kenny Everett Show really was. Everyone, no matter how great a star, made fools of themselves for his crazy sketches - Bill Wyman, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley, Michael Parkinson, Terry Wogan, Adam Faith, Bob Geldof, Toyah, Elton John, even ABBA - and who could forget Lionel Blair in chains being whipped by Cleo Rocas every week..? Jx
I think it was David Essex, as someone who'd got a rather hefty motorbike at a time of horrendous petrol shortages and hiked prices...how many miles did the machine do to a gallon? "Oi 'aven' had a gallon yet..."
DeleteIt's funny, I can imagine Dame Shirl doing it in a sink, but not Mr Bowie.
ReplyDelete"I fought for people like you - and I never got one" ~ How disappointing.
Dame Shirl's from Cardiff, so it was probably par for the course to find herself pissing in a sink at various dumps where she ended up performing. I remember having to do the same at a particularly insalubrious venue "The Cross Keys Miners' Institute Heavy Metal Rock Night". {{shudders}} Jx
DeleteDarlings, you haven't lived til you've had to go outside, in pouring rain, and hitch up your skirts, drop your knickers and obey nature in a ditch...alongside the stars of the night's cabaret cos the indoor plumbing was kaput.
DeleteWe boys don't have such ignominy - just stand and point; tree, lamppost, policeman, whatever. I have peed in the garden before now, as I'd read that male wee deterred foxes from the garden. It didn't work, just made the flower beds smell of urine. Jx
DeleteDavid Bowie, the God of Pansexualism! I was beginning to think he was a vampire, for reals. Who would have minded though, really? And Shirley Bassey singing one of my favorite songs with pzazz! We should all be jealous of that sink!
ReplyDeleteI don't think Dame Shirl does anything without pizazz. Jx
DeleteYou have to feel sort of sorry for any mere mortal born on this day; how could they ever measure up?
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy to bask in their limelight... Jx
DeleteLate 1960s, the Wong boys Chequers Nightclub Sydney. On stage Ms Shirley Bassey. Ah, remembrance of youth, she was stunning especially the hands a flutter.
ReplyDeleteRgds, an admirer from afar.
Lucky, lucky you! I never got to see her perform... Jx
DeleteFabulousness upon Fabulousness
ReplyDeleteOf course. Jx
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