The Recording of the 80th. Birthday Show at the ITV Studio

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Saturday night was the recording of the 80th. birthday show at the ITV studio in London with host David Walliams.

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Dame Shirley performed 7 songs and sounded great and looked gorgeous. The recording took about 3 hours. It was a small studio and there were about 500 people in the audience. Unfortunately lots of people had to be disappointed and could not get in.

I had a very good view on the stage and sat close to Tim and Paul Joseph (It’s got to be Bassey)

The show will be broadcast on Christmas eve on BBC 1.

Host David Walliams did a few interviews with Dame Shirley Bassey but it was a bit of History Repeating as they were the same questions (and answers) as in former shows. In that sense a bit of a missed opportunity in my opinion. Don’t know if his jokes were all appreciated by Dame…

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Blake’s Beautiful Tribute to Leonard Cohen

Today’s news of Leonard Cohen’s death has greatly saddened us. We have sung his song Hallelujah thousands of times together and it’s a song we owe our career to. Here is a little acapella version we just sang today, in his memory. Rest in peace Leonard, your songs will be with us forever more. Blake

November 11, 2016