Cilla Black
Cilla Black
Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE, known by her stage name Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth27 May 1943
CityLiverpool, England
cathy flat hang helping steady swing swinging
Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be doing 'Ready Steady Go!' on T.V., and Biba used to make our dresses. We'd be in the flat in Cromwell Road on Friday night, just before the live show, and they'd still be sewing.
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You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.
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It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
trying
Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!
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I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.
Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.
On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.
rotten watch
If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.
reality television reality-television
I humbly apologise for reality Television.
thinking years stories
I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.
book biographies
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
running blue clothes
When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.
reality television reality-television
But reality television is here to stay.
funny missing dumb
I do not miss ITV, God no! Have you seen ITV lately?