74 year-old Dame Shirley Bassey and 32 year-old Rumer are among the performers who will remember James Bond composer John Barry at a memorial concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Tributes at the 20 June concert will come from Sir George Martin and Sir Michael Caine, among others.
Money raised will help fund a film composition scholarship set up in his name at the Royal College of Music.
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.
