What's It All About?

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Random House, May 4, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 448 pages
Cilla Black is without doubt one of Britain's most treasured personalities. Generations have grown up with Cilla's music, TV shows, and performances. But how much do we really know about 'the girl with the bright red hair and the jet black voice'? What's It All About? is Cilla's own story, told for the first time ever. It's the story of a woman who has worked ceaselessly to stay at the top for forty years despite setbacks and personal tragedy; a life of incredible highs and terrible lows. In this deeply personal autobiography she tells her unique story in intimate and vivid detail for the very first time. This is the real Cilla Black.
 

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Contents

PART ONE 1 Left Footer
1
Forbidden Fruits
23
Stepping Out
37
We Can Work It Out
49
Wishing and Hoping
58
The Blackbird Has Landed
70
Ready Steady Go
78
An Untutored Girl
88
Its Different Now
211
Youre My World
222
Easy in Your Company
234
Imagine
242
Now or Never?
254
Surprise Surprise
265
Blind Date
279
PART THREE 25 Hanging On
293

The Weekend Starts Here
100
New York New York
118
Do You Mind If I Turn On?
129
Way Out in Piccadilly
139
PART TWO 13 Brian
149
Cilla Lulu and Sandie
156
Barefoot Days
169
Child of Mine
183
What Is Life ?
200
Through The Years
307
Youll Never Walk Alone
319
Love of the Loved
333
Bobby
343
Surround Yourself With Sorrow
352
Somethings Gonna Happen Tonight
373
Whats It All About?
388
Discography
398
Index
404

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About the author (2009)

Born Priscilla Maria Veronica White in Liverpool's heavily bombed, down trodden Scotland Road in 1943, Cilla grew up as a rough and tumble tomboy in a staunchly catholic household. By the time she was twenty - caught up in the incredible youth explosion of the Sixties - she was a key player on the up and coming Mersey scene, managed by Brian Epstein and friends with the Beatles. She enjoyed hit after smash hit as Cilla Black, selling a hundred thousand records a day.

Cilla became a prominent television presenter in the 1980s and 1990s with shows such as Blind Date and Surprise Surprise. Two years after celebrating 50 years in showbusiness, she sadly passed away in August 2015.

Bibliographic information

TitleWhat's It All About?
AuthorCilla Black
Editionillustrated
PublisherRandom House, 2009
ISBN1407025163, 9781407025162
Length448 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Performing Arts / General
Performing Arts / Television / General
  
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