Portrait of the artist: Cilla Black, entertainer

'When I started touring, it was a very solitary life. I'd come back to my hotel – and there was no TV, no dirty movies'What got you started?When I was little, my father used to bring his mates back from the pub for "jars out": everyone would have a few beers and do a turn. One night, when I was three, a guest spotted me on the stairs, and stood me on the kitchen table to do a song. That was my first stage.What was your big breakthrough?John Lennon telling [the Beatles' manager] Brian Epstein ...

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