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“History Repeating” is a song written by Alex Gifford and originally performed by the Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey in 1997.

The single was released shortly before the Propellerheads album Decksanddrumsandrockandroll (their only album to date), released in 1998 by Wall of Sound in Europe and DreamWorks in the US and Japan. The Propellerheads had previously worked with the James Bond composer David Arnold on the Bond tribute album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project, where they remixed the John Barry composition “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.

The track is a fusion of several different styles of big beat, breakbeat and Jazz combined with the powerful vocals of Shirley Bassey. The sleeve cover, an illustration by Duke D. Jukes takes its inspiration from classic album sleeves, such as those used for the Capitol 1959 release No One Cares from Frank Sinatra. The retro style was also continued with the video, filmed in monochrome, the opening of which is themed on a TV Jazz show called Jazz 1200 and clearly harks back to the serious music shows of the 1960s. Scenes from the video shoot were included in the Divas are Forever DVD.
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  • Darya01

    AMAZING track with Shirley Bassey.. can't stop dancing

    December 2011

  • moonauto

    AWESOME!

    October 2011

  • CookieKentuki

    winner

    October 2011

  • DesVandrer

    I keep thinking of her song with Yello when I hear this song.

    September 2011

  • benberzerc

    brilliant

    August 2011

  • TNVWBOY

    Wow forgot about this song. Love it!

    June 2011

  • ekimmu

    nice one!

    April 2011

  • zgd123

    not just history repeating but also the track repeating and repeating and repeating and ...

    February 2011

  • mjenn

    Class

    January 2011

  • needmymusictoda

    killer awesome forever

    December 2010

  • amanicangel

    This is great

    December 2010

  • sunset_nz

    Wonderful!

    November 2010

  • macpro

    Cool track would be at home on any James Bond movie.

    September 2010

  • Barock94

    Classic.

    September 2010

  • Conacha

    the amazing voice of Shirley Bassey...

    September 2010

  • andreabrasil

    Love it. It's a classic.

    July 2010

  • Biscuit1978

    What an inspired use of Birley Shassey. Great song.

    July 2010

  • Dementedcookie

    Is it possible to molest a song? Lets find out. d-(^-^)z

    June 2010

  • Ninja1980

    When this album came out in 1997 I hated this track.. as time progressed it just kept getting better and better and now is one my favorite on the album. lol

    April 2010

  • luckylollyme

    Kinda sounds like lounge, retro and electronica all rolled into one song.

    November 2009
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