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CILLA BLACK returned to the UK album charts this weekend. Celebrate her finest moments from 1960s hits You're My World, Alfie and Anyone Who Had A Heart to her telly theme tunes like Surprise Surprise and one crazy night in a corset with Lily Savage...
Cilla Black is back in the charts after more than 30 years.
Her compilation album The Very Best Of has reached its highest ever UK chart position at number 14.
It is the Liverpudlian legend's highest charting album in 47 years, since Sher-oo in 1968, according to the Official Charts Company.
The chart resurgence is fuelled by fans paying tribute to the TV star and singer, who died of a stroke at her Spanish villa last weekend.
SCROLL DOWN FOR OUR VIDEO TRIBUTE TO CILLA'S GREATEST PERFORMANCES
Her compilation album The Very Best Of has reached its highest ever UK chart position at number 14.
It is the Liverpudlian legend's highest charting album in 47 years, since Sher-oo in 1968, according to the Official Charts Company.
The chart resurgence is fuelled by fans paying tribute to the TV star and singer, who died of a stroke at her Spanish villa last weekend.
SCROLL DOWN FOR OUR VIDEO TRIBUTE TO CILLA'S GREATEST PERFORMANCES
Anyone Who Had A Heart was her first No 1 single and has also made a charts comeback.
The iconic track entered the charts at No 41, its highest chart position in 51 years.
Back in 1964 Cilla followed her debut chart-topper with her second No 1 single, You're My World. The rousing ballad was an English take on the Italian hit Il Mio Mondo.
We also have a live recording of Cilla singing her huge hit Step Inside Love in 1968 and a rare full-length version of the theme tune to Surprise Surprise.
The iconic track entered the charts at No 41, its highest chart position in 51 years.
Back in 1964 Cilla followed her debut chart-topper with her second No 1 single, You're My World. The rousing ballad was an English take on the Italian hit Il Mio Mondo.
We also have a live recording of Cilla singing her huge hit Step Inside Love in 1968 and a rare full-length version of the theme tune to Surprise Surprise.
We continue to pay our own tribute to Our Cilla, with a look at some of her most remarkable performances.
It's uniquely infectious stuff, from early appearances in the charts to her TV show theme tunes and one very unforgettable outing in a corset with Lily Savage and Barbara Windsor.
No-one could ever forget this classic moment from the 2001 Royal Variety Show.
It's uniquely infectious stuff, from early appearances in the charts to her TV show theme tunes and one very unforgettable outing in a corset with Lily Savage and Barbara Windsor.
No-one could ever forget this classic moment from the 2001 Royal Variety Show.
Even Cilla laughed when she looked back on it and remembered the reaction of Her Majesty the Queen.
“Savage persuaded me to do a scene from Gypsy, playing an old stripper. I was showing a LOT more than I’d imagined," Cilla remembered in 2013.
“Two days later I met the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace for a private audience.
"She said ‘I see you are wearing rather a lot more than you were the other night’.
“Two days later I met the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace for a private audience.
"She said ‘I see you are wearing rather a lot more than you were the other night’.
"My face went so red.”
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Cilla could do it all.
To finish, just check out the extraordinary archive footage of her recording the 1966 hit Alfie with Burt Bacharach.
They really don't make 'em like that any more.
Thanks for the memories and ta-rah chuck...
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