SHIRLEY BASSEY - DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

SHIRLEY BASSEY

SONGWRITERS: Don Black & John Barry

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

MOVIE: 007 DIAMONDS ARE FOR EVER

ALBUM: SHIRLEY BASSEY

LABEL: COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE RECORD

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK(LIVE IN BERLIN)

YEAR: 1961

Diamonds Are Forever is the soundtrack by John Barry for the seventh James Bond film of the same name.

"Diamonds Are Forever", the title song with lyrics by Don Black, was the second Bond theme to be performed by Shirley Bassey, after "Goldfinger". The song was also recorded in Italian by Bassey as "Una Cascata di Diamanti (Vivo Di Diamanti)"; this version was only issued on 7-inch single in Italy, and was intended to be included in a (cancelled) 3-CD box set titled Shirley released in 2012.

Producer Harry Saltzman hated the song and it only made the film due to co-producer Albert Broccoli. One of Saltzman's major objections was to the innuendo in the lyrics. Bassey would later return for a third performance for 1979's Moonraker.

Diamonds are forever,

They are all I need to please me,

They can stimulate and tease me,

They won't leave in the night,

I've no fear that they might desert me.

Diamonds are forever,

Hold one up and then caress it,

Touch it, stroke it and undress it,

I can see ev'ry part,

Nothing hides in the heart to hurt me.

I don't need love,

For what good will love do me?

Diamonds never lie to me,

For when love's gone,

They'll lustre on.

Diamonds are forever,

Sparkling round my little finger.

Unlike men, the diamonds linger;

Men are mere mortals who

Are not worth going to your grave for.

I don't need love,

For what good will love do me?

Diamonds never lie to me,

For when love's gone,

They'll lustre on.

Diamonds are forever, forever, forever.

Diamonds are forever, forever, forever.

Forever and ever.