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Forget the cheesy image – Cilla Black was a pioneer

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imageCilla Black in 1963. PA/PA Wire

Cilla Black was the only woman to have two number-one hits in the group-swamped mid-1960s pop charts. She was also a working-class woman entrusted at just 24 with fronting prime-time BBC Saturday-night television and the only female host simultaneously to front two ratings-devouring behemoths of 80s and 90s ITV. Her...

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