“RIP”, wrote the former Dynasty.
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LONDON (AP) Big-voiced British singer Cilla Black, a product of Beatles-era Liverpool who became a national treasure over a 50-year music and television career, has died. “She is someones mum, grandma a legend”.
Ringo Starr tweeted: “She was a good friend we will all miss her”.
“Cilla Black was a huge talent who made a significant contribution to public life in Britain”.
A spokesperson for Spanish police said: “We are still awaiting autopsy results but everything at this stage is pointing towards her death being the result of natural causes”. Cill, I love you. In 1979 – after success fronting her own show on prime time television – she returned to the concert hall with The Cilla Black Show, a summer show that included comedian Don Maclean.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described her as “one of my childhood idols”. “My thoughts are with her family”.
Warm, kind and full of laughs, the working-class redhead from Liverpool – known nationwide simply as “Cilla” – was a fixture on British TV screens for more than 50 years. She was a trail blazer”, while Loose Women’s Carol McGiffin also paid tribute on social media, stating: “Feel privileged to have worked with her, she was hilarious and she really knew how to live. On our return Leigh took a dislike to me and things took a depressing turn especially when she called me “a country bumpkin”.
Cilla enjoyed life and relished her celebrity status.
Black made her television debut in 1968 with Cilla, welcoming guests from Sir Tom Jones to Sir Cliff Richard. “Particulars of her dying will probably be introduced following the coroner’s report”.
Singer and broadcaster Des O’Connor said: “If ever the words “The One And Only” applied to anyone it was Cilla”.
“She was a very special person, and I have lost a very wonderful friend, I will miss her dearly”.
“My earliest memory of having a tantrum was over Cilla”.
“I didn’t know what to do so I burst into song and gave them a verse of Anyone Who Had a Heart“, she said then. “I was four”.
Her star continued to shine brightly, and she had two number ones in 1964 – Anyone Who Had A Heart and You’re My World.
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A police officer was seen out her home in Estepona, Costa del Sol.
