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Cilla Black
British
Musician
Born:
May 27
,
1943
Died:
Aug 1
,
2015
Business
Had
Home
Me
People
You
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I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.
Cilla Black
Life
Today
Me
Fate
Live For Today
Tomorrow
Blessed
Whatever
Control
Gone
Live
Back
Destiny
Had
Know
Because
Accepting
Trying
Store
Happen
Pulled
It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.
Cilla Black
Sad
Life
Changes
Life Changes
Unfold
Your
Hard
Watch
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
Cilla Black
Age
Whatever
About
Like
Coming
Coming Of Age
Nicest
Thing
I always believed I would be a star.
Cilla Black
Would
Would-Be
Always
Star
Believed
Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.
Cilla Black
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Hearing
Roll
Done
I intend to grow old very disgracefully.
Cilla Black
Old
Very
Intend
Grow
I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.
Cilla Black
Believe
Camera
Subdued
Quite
Switch
You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.
Cilla Black
Life
Me
You
Confidence
Control
Give
Give Me
More
Because
Private
Private Life
Than
Any
I love cookery programmes.
Cilla Black
Love
Programmes
Cookery
My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.
Cilla Black
Cake
Throwing
Idea
Baking
Mix
Egg
Buying
There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.
Cilla Black
Mouth
Nothing
Wrapped
Going
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.
Cilla Black
Before
Live
Back
Our
Sewing
Out
Dresses
Steady
Put
Road
Make
Cathy
Ready
Still
Doing
Go
Friday
Friday Night
Hang
Just
Flat
Used
Show
Helping
Swing
Swinging
Night
The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to shout in the studio, but I can't knock the Cavern or the other clubs because they gave me my strong voice.
Cilla Black
Time
Me
Strong
First
Other
Gave
Those
Abbey
Voice
Voices
Had
Studio
Put
Road
Longer
Knock
Headphones
Because
First Time
Discovered
Clubs
Shout
Two
I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.
Cilla Black
Shake
Had
Operation
Am
Falling
Hand
Arthritis
Hands
Apart
'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.
Cilla Black
World
Everything
Minutes
About
Date
Could
Lifeline
Blind
Forget
There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.
Cilla Black
Generation
Out
Days
Know
Singer
Pop
Pop Singer
Who
Whole
Early
Early Days
Having a biopic made is very flattering.
Cilla Black
Made
Having
Very
Flattering
On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.
Cilla Black
Lies
Singer
Want
Here
Presenter
I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
Cilla Black
Home
Would
Tried
New
Come
Got
Cracked
America
York
Died
Just
New York
Wanted
Loved
Then
Homesick
I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.
Cilla Black
Me
People
Long
Too
Enough
Like
Arms
Because
Close
But reality television is here to stay.
Cilla Black
Reality
Television
Stay
Reality Television
Here
I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.
Cilla Black
Great
You
Business
Weather
Sit
Say
Like
How
Bull
Shop
Golf
Cannot
China
Your
It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.
Cilla Black
Beautiful
Getting Older
Losing
Diamond
Pain
Older
Earrings
Wearing
No Fun
Take
Hearing
Getting
Might
Fun
Away
It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.
Cilla Black
Love
You
Gone
Say
True
Miss
Looked
Until
Got
Being
After
They Say
Appreciate
I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.
Cilla Black
Time
Day
You
Song
Old
Black
Down
Rats
Had
Days
Like
Hours
Call
Bedroom
Go
Just
Want
Literally
Them
Whole
Shut
The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in.
Cilla Black
Best
Me
Advice
Gone
Difficult
Gave
Back
Carried
TV
Carry
Would
Inside
Foot
He
Studio
Know
Been
Ever
Set
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