Scouse songbird

Introducing... MIIISSS CILLLAA BLAAAACK. If you don't know Cilla, I'd start with her obituary (apologies for linking to the Telegraph but their obituaries are the best).


26 comments on “Scouse songbird

  1. I like her. She says good things

  2. The Lads from Liverpool aren’t coming off so Lovable in this adventure. I’m beginning to wonder if Shelley might want to botch this assignment on purpose.

    BTW, I was wrong about how I thought she would accomplish her mission. At least I think I was. It ain’t over yet.

    1. The Fab Four are being depicted as (a) Of Their Time and (b) depressed by lack of success. And at least Shelley isn’t having to deal with them in the Hamburg red light district.

  3. What an interminable obituary! Paul and Shelley’s relationship don’t look really strong. I wonder if they will break up way before the end of the story.

  4. Darn you for making me open a Telegraph link. (Very good obituary, though.)

    I’m loving this deep dive into this era; even if the timeline’s a little oblique to ours, it all rings true.

  5. She should help Paul if she can; he’s feeling down
    And He does appreciate her being ’round
    She’ll help him get his feet back on the ground
    Won’t Shelly please, please help Paul?

  6. John will have the ginger sling with the pineapple heart, Paul the cool cherry cream and a nice apple tart, Ringo’s partial to a creme tangerine and the Montélimar, and George… well he’ll be fine with a dry biscuit.

  7. SchadenfreudePersonified

    Well done, Shelley!
    Don’t stand for any of that “You’re the girl, get the grub” nonsense.

    I never liked Cilla Black myself. The only good thing about her voice was it was loud and even people at the back could hear it. That was also the really bad thing about it.

  8. I was wondering a strip or two ago if Cilla would appear and maybe even turn out to be the mysterious villain… Who Shelley will have to start chasing eventually, unless she really wants to spend all her time getting annoyed by period sexual politics.

    1. Shelley is pretty resilient to period sexual politics… but she’s no one’s dogsbody!

      1. Sex Pistols ref (by some accounts at least)? Keeping to the lyrics, or anything else, never their strong suit.

  9. Hell yeah, Shelley!

  10. Let’s see: Four guys who are preparing to go on-stage want some snacks and drinks. They ask a fifth who attached herself to them but who is NOT about to perform to run a quick errand for them. She tells them to piss off.

    Yeah that’s modernity.

    In other news I suspect is was John who wore the pig mask.

    1. Some of us already deduced that (see comment from two strips ago).

      Hope I was right so this brag doesn’t end up biting me in the bum.

    2. How many cake shops do you think were open in Liverpool at 9pm at night in 1963, Scott?

      1. On a Wednesday night? That’s a good question.
        Hmmm, feels like the kind of thing Norris McWhirter might know

  11. A symbolic apple strategically placed on the table? I see what you did there…

  12. I love how she still dotted her I with a heart.

  13. BTW, the best part of all this is I’m hearing all the Beatles’ dialogue in their voices.

  14. What was up with those shitty, uppity students? Jesus christ let a lady get a degree you friggin’ snobs.

  15. Never change, Shelley.

  16. A Battenburg has always seemed like a damned fiddly way to make a cake, to me. Too much trouble.

  17. “[Cilla] was an enthusiastic supporter of Margaret Thatcher.”
    Oh dear.

  18. Watch Cilla sing…

    …and look at the audience the second time you watch… in the audience about 0:51.

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