Shirley Bassey JAMES BOND GREATEST HITS part 2

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Shirley Bassey JAMES BOND GREATEST HITS part 2

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May 28t. is the 100th. birthday of Ian Flemming. The man who 'invented' James Bond. Tomorrow the start of 3 episodes of The Greatest James Bond Hits. In which Dame Shirley, of course, played an important role. Ian Fleming: Creator of James Bond and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Ian Fleming is the author of Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia with Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man With The Golden Gun, and Octopussy and the Living Daylights. He is also the author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -- the children's story about the car which flies. A series of articles that he wrote for the Sunday Times about a trip round the world were published in book form, entitled Thrilling Cities. A series about the diamond trade, also for the Sunday Times, was published as The Diamond Smugglers. Ian Fleming was born on 28th May 1908 in London, the second of four brothers. He was educated at Eton and did further studies in Austria and in Germany. Writing was far from being Fleming's first or expected career. He tried for the army after leaving school, but that didn't work out, and he sat the exams for the Foreign Office but did not pass high enough to be accepted for a diplomatic career. In the thirties, he worked briefly for Reuter's news agency. This gave him invaluable experience of writing fast and accurately. But in order to make more money he became a stockbroker instead -- and not a very successful one. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he was recruited to be the personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, and there, at the Admiralty, he remained throughout the war. It was his experience in this job that was to provide many of the characters and incidents that he was to write about later in the Bond books. After the war he became foreign manager for Kemsley newspapers, working chiefly for the Sunday Times. But his creative imagination remained under wraps until 1952, When, at the age of 43, he settled down in his house in Jamaica, and produced -- in not much more than two months - Casino Royale, the first adventure of James Bond. He married Ann Rothermere that same year, after a long on-off relationship. It was his first marriage and her third. They had one son, Caspar, for whom Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Fleming died in 1964 of a heart attack, his Bond books having become enormously successful, and having seen his character played by Sean Connery in the first two films, Dr No and From Russia with Love. Ian Fleming' interests included cars, and golf, swimming and snorkelling, and book-collecting. He built up a very distinguished book collection. The theme of the collection was 'Mile Stones of Human Progress' and included volumes as diverse as Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity' and the first book on golf. This collection now belongs to the Lilly Library at Indiana University.

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daanemartina

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shirley, bassey, 007, james, bond, nancy, sinatra, matt, monro, julie, rogers, decca, ian, flemming, john, barry, Doc,