I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

In 1962 Bassey's collaboration with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra produced the album Let's Face the Music (No. Other Top Ten hits of the period included her second No. Their single made the Top 40 and Bassey contributed two more songs to the official album Land of My Fathers which reached No.

She found fame in the mid-1950s and has been called "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century". Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer. In the US in particular Shirley Bassey is best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964) Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Moonraker (1979).