Cilla statue is unveiled with a lorra lorra love
IT was her home city and a place that was for ever in her heart. So it was fitting yesterday that a statue to Cilla Black was unveiled in Liverpool.
The bronze had been commissioned by her sons Robert, Ben and Jack Willis as a tribute to the singer, who died in August 2015 aged 72. Hundreds of fans attended the unveiling outside the famous Cavern Club, where Miss Black began her singing career while working as a cloakroom girl.
The ceremony also marked the 60th birthday of the club that helped launch the The Beatles.
Robert Willis said the sculpture was not only a memorial to Miss Black but ‘a small gesture of gratitude and thanks to the people of this wonderful city’.
He said his mother ‘would be incredibly proud’. The statue shows the singer grinning, her arms raised in joy, wearing a 1960s chequered dress with the squares containing references to her life, including pictures, song lyrics and her TV catchphrases.