One night, sitting in the front row at the Iron Door Club, the group handed her a microphone and told her to belt out a song. She sang Fever while her voice trembled and her knees shook. The audience howled for an encore and word spread. One night, sitting in the front row at the Iron Door Club, the group handed her a microphone and told her to belt out a song. She sang Fever while her voice trembled and her knees shook. The audience howled for an encore and word spread.
Billed as “Swinging Cilla” she guested with a number of local groups, eventually becoming fast friends with the Beatles
In the summer of 1963 John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote her a song for her first recording called Love Of The Loved. It didn’t sell and Cilla kept singing in the clubs, hoping she would be discovered.
Her big break came at the Blue Angel when she was invited to sing a number with a new group. Unbeknownst to Cilla, Brian Epstein was in the audience and he promptly signed her up as his token female act to complete his ‘stable of stars’.