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A sign has been lovingly pinned at Liverpool’s famous Cavern Club where Cilla Black began her music career. It says The Cavern Club is “sad to announce the passing of its famous cloakroom girl and performer Cilla Black”.

It helped open a door to her music career, was where she met her future husband Bobby Willis and where she took to the stage alongside The Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers.

It was the start of a successful music career in which Black had 19 top 40 hits, including 11 which made it in to the top 10.

She was soon working with the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein and made her Official Singles Chart debut in 1963 with Love of the Loved.

The 1964 track Anyone Who Had a Heart took her to number one and on the musical road to fame. Her version of Anyone Who Had a Heart, first recorded by Dionne Warwick, was the biggest selling single of the 1960s by a female solo artist.

The hit brought her three weeks at the top of the charts and her success in reaching number one was repeated with the song You’re My World.

Black’s last big recording was Something Tells Me (Something is Gonna Happen Tonight) in 1973, which peaked at number three.