{"id":3389,"date":"2016-12-12T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:14:49","slug":"blake-join-david-walliams-dame-shirley-bassey-for-tv-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/blake-join-david-walliams-dame-shirley-bassey-for-tv-special\/","title":{"rendered":"BLAKE join David Walliams &#038; Dame Shirley Bassey for TV Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLAKE have recorded a TV special for BBC1, to be aired on Christmas Eve at 9pm, joining forces with David Walliams to celebrate the life &amp; career of Dame Shirley Bassey. BLAKE perform a unique duet with Dame Shirley, with a special twist!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The trio and national treasure Dame Shirley have been working together throughout 2015 &amp; 2016, recording a special Christmas single (The Christmas Song), performing on Graham Norton &amp; Strictly Come Dancing, and headlining their own night at the Henley Festival, singing to over 7500 people. Coming together again to perform on this special TV show with David Walliams was another beautiful memory to add to the many that Blake have shared with the Dame!<\/p>\n<p>The TV show will be aired on one of the most popular prime time TV slots of the year, at the highpoint of Christmas Eve! Working with the fantastic BBC Concert Orchestra and Blake&#8217;s conductor James Sherlock, a very special rendition of a much loved classic duet was put together specially for this show, including a very unexpected musical surprise from another famous star of the music world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3393\" src=\"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WALLIAMS-BLAKE-BASSEY-GRAPHIC.jpg\" alt=\"walliams-blake-bassey-graphic\" width=\"444\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WALLIAMS-BLAKE-BASSEY-GRAPHIC.jpg 444w, https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WALLIAMS-BLAKE-BASSEY-GRAPHIC-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLAKE have recorded a TV special for BBC1, to be aired on Christmas Eve at 9pm, joining forces with David Walliams to celebrate the life &amp; career of Dame Shirley Bassey. BLAKE perform a unique duet with Dame Shirley, with a special twist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}