#bobby willis

[just2keepyousatisfied]

has ANYONE seen the show Cilla that came out in 2014 because I’m obsessed with it but nobody talks abt it

it’s not even that good i’m just attached to it for some reason

[j-exclamationmark-l]

Sketch of Aneurin Barnard in Cilla.

[lordbelami]

Just Aneurin Barnard being an excellent actor..

[mrepstein]

The Beatles.. and our pal Epstein by Bobby Willis (Daily Mirror - November 3, 1986)

Willis married Cilla Black in 1969 and managed her career after the death of Brian Epstein.

Brian Epstein thought Cilla was no good as a singer.

But John Lennon thought she was great and the Beatles played for her audition with Brian. She’d never auditioned before and she was very nervous.

The lads only played in one key, which wasn’t favourable to her and she really wasn’t very good. Brian wasn’t impressed.

But a month later he was in the audience when she was singing at a local club. Cilla didn’t know he was there and she was her natural self. He went potty and next day he went round to see her mum and dad. That was take-off.

Brian made me Cilla’s road manager because her mum and dad knew and trusted me and Cilla felt relaxed with me. 

When he first asked me to look after Cilla he said she should have nothing to worry about other than singing.

So I had to organise all the travelling, sort out the theatres, the lighting, the sound - everything.

All I insisted on - and Brian agreed - was that we get a good accountant.

‘Don’t owe anybody anything, pay your way and pay your taxes,’ I told Cilla.

She was in the business a long time before she got her first Bentley and then we paid cash for it. We’ve always done that.

Brian’s death hit us very hard. He was our mentor. To us he was a good and funny man.

[heartlandians]

Source

[borispav]

Aneurin Barnard in Cilla (2014)

[the-cosmic-empire]

The Beatles accompanied by their wives, George’s parents, Mal Evans and Neil Aspinall arrive for a memorial service for Brian Epstein at the New London Synagogue, 33 Abbey Road, London, not far from EMI Studios. Also in attendance were Cilla Black and Bobby Willis, Gerry Marsden, The Fourmost, Billy J Kramer and Lulu accompanied by Peter Brown. 

Pics: Alamy / Mirrorpix / PA

[littlesatnin]

Cilla Black and Bobby Willis, 1964.