Propellerheads feat： Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

What this video is

Released in 1997 at the apex of the British big beat movement, 'History Repeating' represented a landmark moment of intergenerational cultural dialogue: the collision between Bath-based electronic producers Propellerheads — aligned with the Chemical Brothers / Fatboy Slim big beat wave — and Shirley Bassey, the veteran Welsh singer whose imperial-era glamour stood as an avatar of 1960s–1970s showbiz. The video's…

Why it matters

A canonical artifact of the late-1990s big beat genre, demonstrating the movement's appetite for cross-generational, cross-genre synthesis. The track fused breakbeat, jazz, and big band orchestration into a cohesive pop-electronic statement. The video's theatrical retro-television conceit became…

The director

Pedro Romhanyi is a British music video director who began his career directing promos at London Records in 1987. He became a prominent figure in the 1990s Britpop video era, directing celebrated videos for Pulp (Common People, Disco 2000, Mis-Shapes), Blur…