Couple of points on cilla.
She loved the city, loved the people, loved this football club.
Did she ever follow this club as much as the rest of us, probably not, probably not as avidly as other celeb reds either, but follow us she did.
She was approached by the sun to raise money for the families the day after the disaster. I don't know if kelvin was part of that approach but she agreed to help. I don't know if she knew what was reported by that shit rag a few days later. I very much doubt it. Would she have connected the dots years later, again I very much doubt it, and doubt she even know who the other celebs who she would be dining with would be.
As for politics, I know lots of women my mums age who are clueless about politics even though it resulted in their hubbies on the dole, milk taken from their children, yet despite all that what quite a few women saw was a strong woman fighting in a male dominated occupation and kicking arse. Liked or loathed there is a respect for her, as a woman. You have to understand for most women cilla's age their life was supposed to be wife's and mothers, without much of a voice, and that's it and for most thats all it was. For cilla it was living in a flat above a barber shop with hardly a penny to her name. I've no doubt she like many others have the meryl Streep version of thatcher and not the one those who follow politics a bit more closer would see.
As for leaving the city, she did, along with every other celeb of the time. She didn't alter her accent, though others did, didn't try and shrug off her Liverpool past, she was proud of it.
Professional scousers, fucking hate that shite, that's the same kind of bollox as self pity city, another pop at a collective us. It's funny really, cilla was part of a group of people, the made the rest of the nation wannabe scouse. From mop tops and faux scouse accents.
I gotta lotta respect for cilla, as a performer who span generations, as a woman, as a scoucer.
