Women We Love
St. David’s Day Edition
In honor of St. David’s Day I wanted to spotlight a kick-ass Welsh woman. However, I could only think of three Welsh women and two were Catherine Zeta Jones and Charlotte Church, so no and no. This left me with Dame Shirley Bassey, and regardless of her country of origin she fits the bill. If you don’t know her, you should. She sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Moonraker, and is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. She’s also a gay icon, and the apple of Prince Philip’s eye (these two facts are completely unrelated). Her career spans more than 50 years, and at age 72 she’s still as marvelous as she ever was. She is living testament that a woman can feel and be thoroughly sexy after sixty.
Here she is vamping it up at a celebration of Prince Philip’s birthday. I defy you to tell me I’m wrong.