SINGER Sir Cliff Richard will pay his own musical tribute, performing his song Faithful One at the start of the service to celebrate Black’s life and mourn the passing of one of Britain’s most enduring and best loved entertainers.
When Cilla makes her final return to Liverpool, the city where she took her first steps into show-business, hundreds of fans are expected to line the two mile route to the church and pay their respects as her cortège passes.
I am from the Scottie Road area of Liverpool and so was she. By 1965 she had become the female symbol of British youth – with two No 1 hits and a season at the London Palladium, and by 1968, at 25, she was a millionaire. It was a shrewd move and, largely through her own...
Cilla fully established herself as a national treasure through her rapport with everyday people, developing a comfortable bond with her viewer-ship and eventually elevating to legend status – although I’m sure she would have cringed at being referred to as such. She...