We remember Cilla Black as the big-voiced British singer, a product of Beatles-era Liverpool who became a national treasure over a 50-year music and television career.
We take a look back at her incredible journey in the glitzy world of showbiz...
Cilla Black: 1943-2015 Her Life In Pictures
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1/23 Here she is during her early days at Alpha TV Studios in Birmingham in 1963. -
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2/23 Cilla, pictured left, celebrating her 21st birthday backstage at Top Of The Pops studio in 1964. -
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3/23 Pictured with greyhound Ringo after making the draw for the first round of the 1964 National Inter-Track Greyhound Championship.
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4/23 Cilla posing with Ringo outside the Waldorf Hotel in London.
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5/23 With Bruce Forsyth recording a sketch for a Christmas show at ABC-TV studios in Teddington in 1965.
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6/23 The Liverpudlian singer hiding behind big dark sunglasses at Heathrow Airport, while on her way to New York to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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7/23 With singer Cliff Richard in 1968 at Shepherd’s Bush in London.
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8/23 Cilla with her fiance Bobby Willis at Mayfair in London in 1969.
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9/23 With Bruce Forsyth and choreographer Lionel Blair in Leeds in 1969.
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10/23 Cilla, aged 25, on her wedding day. She married her manager Bobby Willis, 27, at St Marylebone Register Office in London in 1969.
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11/23 The singer and husband Bobby pose for photos with their 10-day old baby Robert as they leave the clinic at St Johns Wood in London.
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12/23 Cilla with her son Robert at Heathrow Airport while flying back from Nice.
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13/23 Cilla and Bobby joke around as they check out the wax image of her and her baby Robert at Madame Tussaud’s exhibition in London in 1971.
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14/23 With comedian Harry Secombe and Dame Vera Lynn at the Variety Club of Great Britain luncheon in 1978.
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15/23 With her son Robert and his wife Fiona after their wedding at St Mary The Virgin Church in Denham, Buckinghamshire in 2001.
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16/23 With Marie Curie Nurse of the Year Catherine McGhee, launching Marie Curie Cancer Care’s Daffodil Campaign 2001.
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17/23 During a photocall for ITV show Blind Date at the New Connaught Rooms in London. The show ran on Saturday nights from November 1985 to May 2003.
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18/23 Receiving The Hall Of Fame award from Cherie Blair in 2005.
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19/23 Posing for photos with the contestants on Soapstar Superstar.
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20/23 Cilla on the catwalk at the Fashion For Relief show during London Fashion Week in 2008.
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21/23 Prince Harry meeting the singer in 2010.
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22/23 Cilla joking with Paul O’Grady after winning her Special Award at the BAFTA Television Awards last year.
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23/23 With Sir Cliff Richard and Colin Firth in the Royal Box at the Wimbledon Championships last year.
