Cilla Black

 

In Today's Issue

A Tribute to Cilla Black by Marjory Lacy

Cilla Black

Funny Phobias

Random Joke of the Day

The Thoughts Of Chairman Anyhow

That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

Finish with a Song

Cilla

said it.

Surprise!

Surprise!

We  cried,

we  laughed

her  distinctive

shrill  Liverpool

voice  on  our  T.V.,

screens,  her   laugh,

her   red   hair,  her    

many     song      hits.

She  was  full  of  love

full  of  energy

full    of    fun!

She  was  

ours!

Cilla.

Our  Cilla.

Surprise!

Surprise!

• Cilla was actually born Priscilla Maria Veronica White in Liverpool on 27 May 1943.
• Her stage name was "Swinging Cilla".
• Many of her first performances were at Liverpool's Cavern Club, which she blamed for her hearing loss.
• She often sang with The Beatles and in 1963 was the first female artists to be signed by their manager Brian Epstein.
• Her first number 1 was Anyone Who Had A Heart, which stayed at the top spot for 3 weeks in February 1963.
• The song went on to sell over 1 million copies worldwide as did her second UK number 1, You're My World.
• Cilla never managed to break the US but Elvis Presley had a copy of You're My World on his Graceland jukebox.
• She was married to her manager Bobby Willis for more than 30 years until he died of lung cancer in October 1999.
• The couple had three sons together; Robert, Ben and Jack. They also had a daughter, Ellen, in 1975 but sadly she only lived for 2 hours.

Melophobia is the fear of music. The origin comes from the Greek word melopoeia (which is the art of forming melody) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). 

A circle walks into a pub."Your round," I said.

The Thoughts of Chairman Anyhow

It's been announced today that James Dyson is to invest heavily in a radical new design on the electric car .... It'll suck !

Kim Jong Il wrote six operas, and his son works in my chip shop.....

Finish with a Song

This is Cilla Black with Anyone who had a Heart, released in 1964