Cilla

Currently in the UK, Monday night television is showing a biopic about Cilla Black. With his many links to Cilla Ringo is of course featured and played by Tom Dunlea. I haven't yet had a chance to watch the show so can't state an opinion, but it's reviews so far are glowing and I'd definately recommend it to fans of Ringo and The Beatles due to all of the obvious links.

To tie in with this, I thought I'd share these images from when Ringo appeared on Cilla's variety show on 6th February 1968. He appeared as a guest during the opening credits and featured with Cilla in a number of sketches. In the first he assisted Cilla in sorting through her fan mail and then introduced her singing performance of I'm Playing Second Fiddle To A Football Team. In a second sketch, with fellow guest ventriloquist Peter Brough, Ringo performed with his own 'dummy' which was Cilla dressed as a school girl. Ringo and Cilla then duetted unaccompanied on the 1905 song Nellie Dean, and then finished by singing and dancing to a 1917 song entitled Do You Like Me?