Shirley Bassey told me off for playing my own song wrong, says Lloyd Webber
Andrew, 72, said he once performed a number she requested from his musical Sunset Boulevard at a New Year’s Eve party. When Welsh songstress Shirley told him, “It doesn’t go like that”, he informed her he had written the song himself – but she still wasn’t satisfied. West End veteran Andrew, said: “The biggest diva I’ve ever worked with – and that was only vaguely – was Shirley Bassey, who was quite wonderful.
“I mean, she fired me from the piano playing my own songs. She said, ‘It doesn’t go like that.’
“It was As If We Never Said Goodbye [from Sunset Boulevard]. It was a New Year’s Eve we had.
“We had a wonderful New Year’s Eve party.
“It was her and Joan Collins. And we had a sing-song at about one in the morning and Shirley attempted to get on the piano and jump up on it.
