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Simon Grigg

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:49:49 +1200

An unexpected (and pretty good!) duet with Marc Bolan:

Aww .. my favourite Bolan track too. Great find.

Russell Brown

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 13:08:07 +1200

With Cilla’s passing, a couple more clips.

An unexpected (and pretty good!) duet with Marc Bolan:

https://youtu.be/sA2fW2IS6gk

And, via Murray Cammick, about as rockin’ as she got on record …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jwBoKjxIU

RIP.

Ethan Tucker

Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:12:57 +1300

I've gorra lorra time for Sheridan Smith, who is big on the London stage and amusing on Twitter. Gave a charming performance in Gavin & Stacey as the onscreen sister to her then-boyfriend James Corden, like in this scene, a carpark rendition of Kanye's rap from Estelle's 'American Boy' single. Actually…

Simon Grigg

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:58:09 +1300

And we mustn’t forget Sandie Shaw (except for that bloody awful Puppet On a String). I guess she finally earned enough to buy shoes.

Killer moments: Always Something There To Remind Me, Girl Don’t Come, Wight is Wight, I Don’t Need You Anymore (with The Smiths) and Had A Dream…

JacksonP

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:08:48 +1300

On a similar note, and similar time period, Helen Shapiro sings Look Who It Is to some guys you might recognize.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TPGlBpvFj8

JacksonP

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:42:08 +1300

Cilla-related note: I once saw a drag performance of “Step Inside Love” at Alfie’s, about, uh, 25 years ago.

I'm pretty sure I was there, or at least saw the same show at some point.

Also, this ITV special from last year has the full 50 years of Cilla Black's…

Danielle

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:55:41 +1300

He played that at this year's Auckland show and I just about imploded with joy. A very great favourite of mine.

Cilla-related note: I once saw a drag performance of "Step Inside Love" at Alfie's, about, uh, 25 years ago.

sandra

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:01:05 +1300

Working for a newspaper in an Arab Gulf state in the 1980s and had the chance to interview Ms Black while she was doing a one-night only show – but unlike the generous Elaine Paige and Barry Humphries she wasn't in the mood, even though the interview had been previously…

Hilary Stace

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:08:03 +1300

Thanks for reminding me of that wonderful movie. Loved the name Morgan for years.

Paul Brown

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:41:06 +1300

I would love to have been able to go tonight, but cannot make it. I saw the Selector (along with Madness and the Specials) at a dancehall in Bournemouth in 1979. A wonderful night. I would have been the oldest person in the room at 31 and a dancing fool.

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:30:40 +1300

I remember Morgan. It was good, as I recall. Also saw Lindsay Anderson's If at a Film Soc screening last week and that remains impressive, I think it might be the film where Tarantino got the inspiration for his series of fantasy-revenge movies.

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:24:31 +1300

And we mustn't forget Sandie Shaw (except for that bloody awful Puppet On a String). I guess she finally earned enough to buy shoes.

She rates a mention in the piece I did for Audioculture, about when she toured NZ with the Pretty Things in the 1960s.

Pete

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:44:07 +1300

Cilla Black?
Jazz?

You've changed man

Ken Double

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:45:18 +1300

I feel we did some good, in a small way. Stop me now…..

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:39:05 +1300

has anyone seen Work is a Four Letter Word?
Pretty sure I saw it in a double feature at the Avenue in Riccarton (perhaps part of a uni arts festival – not that I went to uni)
It came after Morgan, a suitable case for treatment – also…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:30:47 +1300

The IT Crowd...
A raised glass to Fourth Estate...
...and for their assistance with the early days of Flying Nun as well...
very useful having a toll-free line to Auckland, and a loading dock to store boxes of vinyl and covers until any passing band could take them down to…

Mr Mark

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:36:30 +1300

Yep. Despite the wonderfully authentic working-class scouser vocals, Cilla was an out-and-out Thatcherite. While Merseyside suffered badly throughout the 80s and 90s, Cilla was one of the Conservative Party's key Celeb-endorsers Election after Election. As, indeed, was that other working-class girl, Shirley Bassey, from Cardiff's notoriously rough and ready dockside…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:27:40 +1300

I've just dug this out – has anyone seen Work is a Four Letter Word?
... A true British drug, pop-film rarity! David Warner and Liverpool beat girl Cilla Black star in this delightfully-absurd account of a young man called Valentine Brose who is on a mission to…

Ken Double

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:39:29 +1300

Dammit.I knew I forgot something.

Gary Steel’s highly readable memoir of Wellington’s In Touch and TOM magazines, for Audioculture.

A raised glass to Fourth Estate, then publishers of NBR, for the "donation" of type galleys, scalpel blades, wax, photocopy toner and bad coffee. Couldn't see Barry Colman sponsoring subversive shit…

Yamis

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:09:08 +1300

Only link I can find between Elvis Costello and Cilla Black is that he covered a couple of 'her' songs. And this ain't one of them, but I like it anyway... sound quality is pretty average... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OR25MqPWuc

81stcolumn

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:29:45 +1300

For some of us it may still be too soon, at the mere mention of Cilla my only thought is "lorra lorra foon". Which is a shame because damn she could sing. Give it another twenty years or so....

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:28:18 +1300

embrace the NME...
My sister had a copy of that book
This one is about the same vintage,
and going for a song
at the Market tonight in chchch
:- )

nzlemming

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:19:45 +1300

Guy Peellaert’s Cilla.

My sister had a copy of that book, Rock Dreams which fascinated me. I knew most of the images were pure fantasy but they felt real in a way that a photo would not.

Joe Wylie

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:35:37 +1300

Guy Peellaert's Cilla.

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:55:14 +1300

The concert at the Dux Live in Christchurch was unforgettable

It's a pity so meany good events clashed last night in Chch. Dark Matter was at the Darkroom but I checked out Mulholland at the Wunderbar. One of the best local gigs I've witnessed in a long time. Superb musicianship…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:02:36 +1300

Market forces...
Twilight Vintage Market at the Commons in Chchch on tonight (friday), 5-8pm.
(The Commons is where the Pallet Pavillion used to be, which is where the Park Royal used to be, which was where Victoria Street used to be – back in the day when it actually was…

Craig Thornton

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:57:20 +1300

Thanks for your music postings every Friday Russell – its always a highlight of my online week. Cilla's voice is extraordinary.

I just want to shout out a couple of gigs not to be missed this weekend. Ska band The Selector are playing this Friday at Bodega in Wellington and…

Russell Brown

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:41:15 +1300

nah man…I hadn’t seen that list. but there is a Cilla canon swapped among certain types.

Oh, I certainly wasn't suggesting you'd cribbed!

Russell Brown

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:40:25 +1300

Dammit.I knew I forgot something.

Gary Steel's highly readable memoir of Wellington's In Touch and TOM magazines, for Audioculture.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:12:33 +1300

nah man...I hadn't seen that list. but there is a Cilla canon swapped among certain types.
I'd have chucked in Faded Images as well but it doesn't seem to be on youtube.

Russell Brown

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:07:41 +1300

Okay, so it turns out there's quite a bit of Cilla, although much of it fits more comfortably under "novelty".

I'd been thinking "if only she'd worked with Scott Walker" — and she did! Kinda. This muffled recording of a duet is all that remains of Walker's appearance on one…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:33:34 +1300

You see, if she’d just kept hanging out with the Beatles and done loads of acid with them, this would never have happened.

Bryan Ferry would like an elegantly clad word with you young man.

Russell Brown

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:26:01 +1300

Bless. I remember her Blind Date period well. She was a bit (a lot) of a Thatcherite was our Cilla.

You see, if she'd just kept hanging out with the Beatles and done loads of acid with them, this would never have happened.

Russell Brown

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:19:57 +1300

Remember the Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is By My Side that played at the film festival this year? In a weird way, the Hendrix Estate did an interesting if flawed film and lead Andre 3000 a solid by refusing to let them use any of Hendrix’s music. It was quite…

Tim Michie

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:19:43 +1300

Lawks, there was no escaping her show in the 70s. But just as with the Beatles, she has a rich vein of cheek that appealed in New Zealand. Predictably you already have my choice but this includes archival footage I think justifies a second appearance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGddBXNR3s8

Alan Perrott

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:15:25 +1300

last one...her sort of psychy dabble, with added belly dancing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhBmfSkWYPs

Alan Perrott

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:10:29 +1300

ha, apologies for perdictabliity...also,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE7a8H-3sgY#t=100

and some light swing the Dudley Moore Trio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEOVUmDIX4E#t=16

Ken Double

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:07:37 +1300

Bless. I remember her Blind Date period well. She was a bit (a lot) of a Thatcherite was our Cilla. Keeping that plonker Andrew Lloyd Webber company while all the proper musicians were down with Red Wedge. Gotta love her though, she's a trooper. 28 takes of Alfie – that's…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:07:09 +1300

Smith can sing too, but that’s where Cilla falls short. She’s not Cilla, and for all the air she moves, she doesn’t really come near the blaring, brassy voice, with its remarkable dynamic range, that seemed to come effortlessly to the Liverpudlian singer.

Remember the Jimi Hendrix biopic, __All Is…

Russell Brown

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:05:45 +1300

I had a feeling it'd be you who'd bring the knowledge on this one!

Alan Perrott

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:57:43 +1300

I do love me some Cilla, she does a belting Aquarius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6GiTj9EilY

and this is a rather sweetl duet with Marc Bolan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y16oB1iHNfQ

Public Address

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:57:43 +1300

Discussion from blog post.