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...Private Press's best tracks, he uses a vocal about the horrors of war from what sounds like a brassy female jazz singer. It's actually a Liverpudlian male psychedelic group from the early '70s sped up to match the song's tempo. If it were, say, Shirley Bassey, the effect would be sabotaged by kitsch. Instead, it's haunting...
...sports a bushy beard usually complemented by a cowboy hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses. His past is something of a mystery. During the 1960s, he worked in the civil rights movement with Stokely Carmichael. In 1976 he turned up in Los Angeles promoting concerts with stars like Shirley Bassey. His business association with Muhammad Ali began a year later, when Smith sponsored some amateur track meets...
...Shirley Bassey, 43, singer, on performing in Monte Carlo: "The audiences there clap too slowly because they are so loaded down with jewelry, and they're always checking to see if Princess Grace or Prince Rainier are clapping first. By the time they've done that, I'm into my next song...
...ghost of Ed Sullivan seemed to fill the night air. At a funereal pace followed the nonsinging Frank Sinatra, who dropped by to wish Howard luck ("Why don't you just call this show Jaws?), John Denver (who dedicated a song to Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau) and Shirley Bassey. Via satellite, Howard visited a midnight concert given in London by the Bay City Rollers (TIME, Sept. 22), a tepid teen-age group hyped erroneously as the Beatles' successors. A more worthwhile satellite trip to Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel exhibited the magic team of Siegfried...
Joining him on the front line will probably be Art Fadden and Steve Hines, the latter after scoring a goal and playing well on Saturday. Bassey Ate, who sat out two years with a severely damaged knee, has reinjured the knee and will not play...