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Statue of Cilla Black unveiled outside Liverpool’s Cavern Club
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 17 January 2017
A statue of Miss-uh Cill-uuuuh Blaaaaaaaack has been unveiled outside the Cavern Club in Liverpool, as the venue marks is 60th anniversary.
Black originally worked in the venue’s cloakroom, before going on to appear on its stage at the start of her singing career. The statue was commissioned by Black’s sons Robert, Ben and Jack Willis, who said that it was “a small gesture of gratitude to this great city for their wonderful outpouring of love and affection for our mother” following her death in 2015, reports BBC News.
One of the sculptors, Andy Edwards, said that the statue represents “the story of the birth of that period in Liverpool’s musical culture”.
The Cavern Club was originally opened in 1957, and is best known for putting on shows by The Beatles early in their career. The original building was demolished in 1973 to make way for a shopping centre, but reopened on the same site in 1984. It closed again in 1989, reopening eighteen months later in 1991 by Bill Heckle and Dave Jones, who continue to run it to this day.
