#Irani songs 2014 series

#Irani songs 2014 series

ITV announced the three-part series on 16 February 2014. Cilla later marries Bobby, and the drama ends with a photo of the real Cilla and Bobby on their wedding day in 1969. Cilla, distraught about Brian's death, signs the contract and Cilla debuts on the BBC in January 1968. By his bed is a contract for Cilla to star in her own series. Epstein develops a dependency on sleeping pills with tragic repercussions as he overdoses on the pills and dies. In the meantime Brian Epstein's life is unraveling as The Beatles begin to scale back on their activities and eventually to drift apart, and Epstein, a closeted homosexual, continually seeks young men to rough him up and he lies to Cilla about how he suffered his bruises. However, she fails in her subsequent bid to corner the American market and tempers flare in her blossoming relationship with Bobby who is beginning to feel sidelined as Cilla's ego causes her to force Bobby to turn down his own recording contract. The gamble pays off and Anyone Who Had a Heart shoots straight to the top of the charts.Ĭilla follows up Anyone Who Had a Heart with a second consecutive number one, You're My World. The song fails to break the Top 30, but Brian then insists that Cilla change direction and take a gamble on a cover of a Dionne Warwick ballad entitled Anyone Who Had a Heart. Bobby urges her to give singing another go, and Brian Epstein gives Cilla another chance to audition by inviting her into the studio to record what would become her debut single, Love of the Loved. Three years later, Cilla's confidence returns after her disastrous audition. However, she gets a bad case of nerves and the song's key is too low for her, and she loses ground to her rival, Beryl Marsden. It is arranged for her to audition for the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein.

However, young Cilla likes the sound of it and decides to use if for her stage name. Mersey Beat, a local music publication, prints an article on Cilla in which she is mistakenly referred to as 'Cilla Black'. In 1960s Liverpool, young Priscilla 'Cilla' White is working as a typist, but frequently performs at Liverpool's famed Cavern Club, where she meets young singer-songwriter Bobby Willis. The series is based around Black's hometown of Liverpool and follows her rise to fame from 1960 amateur appearances in clubs, her relationships with Bobby Willis and Brian Epstein to the latter's death in 1967.