tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post6103860395202096979..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: So Farewell Then Cilla BlackTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-3539006605654647702015-08-05T11:18:30.796+01:002015-08-05T11:18:30.796+01:00What counts as 'difficult' for an entertai...What counts as 'difficult' for an entertainer?<br />Persona is all there is to sell, so it makes sense to be a bit insistent about things from time to time.<br />Likewise performing, which must be a scary business (I wouldn't want to do it/0, so it's not surprising that so-called stars like things to be 'just so' in the hotel,etc., and in the hours preceding an appearance.<br />As for the Scouse accent, and whether it became only a performance feature, who cares? She isn't the only one for whom that's true.z0rr0zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08037513672722134059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-35101538087067477892015-08-03T01:08:32.321+01:002015-08-03T01:08:32.321+01:00I heard that she was very difficult to work with a...I heard that she was very difficult to work with and that accent only came out for the telly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-91249334454776908322015-08-02T20:33:48.092+01:002015-08-02T20:33:48.092+01:00"Paul McCartney, years later, wrote Step Insi..."Paul McCartney, years later, wrote Step Inside Love for her"<br /><br />Her first single was a donated Lennon and (mainly McCartney number) Love of the Loved which was a minor hit in 1963 when most of the hit parade seem to come from Merseyside.<br /><br />robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-80275925567067126702015-08-02T20:18:18.157+01:002015-08-02T20:18:18.157+01:00... if you say so?... if you say so?hirundinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13488231359777781643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-84130187037745900832015-08-02T20:08:39.086+01:002015-08-02T20:08:39.086+01:00I worked at Wimbledon Theatre when Cilla was appea...I worked at Wimbledon Theatre when Cilla was appearing in pantomine. A friend of mine lived near her. She was not a nice person at all and in private her accent was more Princess Anne than Anfield.<br /><br />I know everyone reading this will be horrified that I say such things but please don't make her into some sort of saint.A Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13379711904663323903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-82970809050157582772015-08-02T19:57:10.806+01:002015-08-02T19:57:10.806+01:00Bit disappointed in you there Tim.
Full of stereo...Bit disappointed in you there Tim.<br /><br />Full of stereotypical shit and completely out of context.<br /><br />The "world" she was born into was typical of working class Britain, not just Liverpool. See Sillitoe's "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" based in Nottingham. Every major city in Britain was pretty much the same at the time.<br /><br />So 1 out of 10. And that's just for spelling Beatles correctly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-45723412781738907612015-08-02T18:32:38.067+01:002015-08-02T18:32:38.067+01:00We now await E.J.Thribb's statutory elegy, wit...We now await E.J.Thribb's statutory elegy, without which no national treasure could possibly be properly dispatched. Best I can manage is:<br /><br /><i>accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu<br />atque in perpetuum Cilla ave atque vale,<br />Chuck.</i>Malcolm Redfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11907427518823910875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-67228818568633852112015-08-02T15:46:29.588+01:002015-08-02T15:46:29.588+01:00Well said.Well said.Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069822714021884725noreply@blogger.com