As tributes pour in for the Liverpool-born entertainer Cilla Black, we take a look at Priscilla White's rise to stardom in pictures.
Gerry and the Pacemakers are welcomed back by Cilla Black and Billy J Kramer (both on right) when they arrived in London from their American tour 1964 Credit: PAs Cilla Black - but today was her real one, her twenty-first. Quick to congratulate her during a stage party at the London Palladium this afternoon were Tommy Cooper and Frankie Vaughn. Credit: PALiverpudlian singer Cilla Black with the greyhound 'Ringo' outside the Waldorf Hotel in London when she was making the draw for the first round of the 1964 Credit: PACilla dances with Lionel Blair in 1965 Credit: PASinger Cilla Black and comedian Bruce Forsyth record a sketch for a Christmas show in 1965 Credit: PACilla Black and manager Bobby Willis after their wedding at St Marylebone Register Office in London in 1969 Credit: PACilla Black and her manager and husband Bobby Willis and 10 day old baby on Robert John Willis leave the avenue clinic in St Johns Wood, London Credit: PACilla with fellow Liverpudlian Jimmy Tarbuck in 1974 Credit: PACilla Black celebrates 25 Years in Show Business in 1988 Credit: PACilla Black with Frankie Howerd in 1991 Credit: PACilla Black with her OBE she received from the Queen in 1997 Credit: PACilla Black leaves the funeral of her husband, Bobby Willis, with her sons Robert (left) and Jack. 1999 Credit: PATV presenter Cilla Black, 54, after she attended the presention of Cilla Black's honorary fellowship at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral. 2000 Credit: PACilla meets the Queen at a reception for the British broadcasting industry at Buckingham Palace. 2001 Credit: PACilla Black as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella 2008/9 Credit: PACilla Black with the Special Award at the 2014 BAFTAs Credit: PA
