Cilla Black, RIP

Jack Scott in Britain, Music & Dance, TV & Radio 2 August, 20152 August, 2015 104 Words

The inimitable Cilla Black has just died at the young age of 72 at her home in Spain. It’s a sad day. I grew up with Cilla (née Priscilla White) from her glory days as Britain’s premier power balladeer in the Swinging Sixties to her reign as undisputed queen of Saturday night TV in the Eighties with programmes like Blind Date. So I do hope when Cilla pitched up at the Pearly Gates, St Peter asked:

What’s your name and where do you come from?

I think Our Cilla would have liked that.

Jack Scott Imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, married, middle aged, middle class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country. I chronicled our exploits with the mad, the bad, the sad and the glad in a blog for the whole world to ignore. Then came the book which became a critically acclaimed best seller. Its success opened out a whole new career for me, firstly as an author, and now as a publisher. Who'd have thought it? Certainly not me. In June 2012, we ended our Anatolian affair and paddled back to Britain on the evening tide, washing up in Norwich, a surprising city in eastern England, then to the wilds of Norfolk as the only gays in the village. I’m sometimes nostalgic for our encounters with the hopeless, the hapless and, yes, the happy go lucky. They gave me an unexpected tale to tell and for this I thank them.

8 thoughts on “Cilla Black, RIP”

ayak48Ayak says:

2 August, 2015 at 14:43

Sad day. I feel like another part of my youth has gone. We’re all getting older. Makes me realise that we really have to live every day as if there’s no tomorrow x

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  2 August, 2015 at 14:57
  
  Amen to that! 😀
  
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backtobodrum says:

2 August, 2015 at 15:16

Well said, Ayak.

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Alan says:

2 August, 2015 at 17:18

she was a lorra, lorra larfs!

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  2 August, 2015 at 17:47
  
  🙂
  
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Turkey's For Life says:

3 August, 2015 at 07:16

A shocker this one, but think friends and family were shocked, too, weren’t they? Too young to remember her singing heyday – 😉 – but she was definitely the queen of Saturday night TV for our generation. RIP Cilla.
Julia

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  3 August, 2015 at 08:20
  
  Came out of the blue completely, I think. 😦
  
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beachcomber says:

6 August, 2015 at 14:48

RIP Cilla.

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