A cloakroom attendant at Liverpool's famous Cavern Club when The Beatles were
regulars in the early 1960s, Cilla Black would occasionally sing a couple of
songs with other Mersey bands like The Big Three and Rory Storm & The
Hurricanes. John Lennon introduced her to Beatles manager Brian Epstein and she
subsequently signed to Parlophone, releasing her dramatic debut single 'Love of
the Loved' in 1963. It was only a minor hit, but she struck it big the following
year when her cover of the Bacharach-David song 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' went to
number one, becoming the biggest-sellin...