Editing Cilla Black (section)

===After Epstein===

Black's boyfriend and songwriter [[Bobby Willis]] assumed management responsibilities after Epstein died. After the relatively disappointing performance of "I Only Live to Love You" (UK No. 26, 1967), Black hit a new purple patch in her recording career, starting with "[[Step Inside Love]]" in 1968 (UK No. 8), which McCartney wrote especially for her as the theme for her new weekly [[BBC]] television variety series.<ref>{{cite web|title=Step Inside Love|date=16 March 2008|publisher=The Beatles Bible|url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/step-inside-love|access-date=3 August 2015}}</ref> Other successes followed in 1969: "Conversations" (UK No. 7), "[[Surround Yourself with Sorrow]]" (written by [[Bill Martin (musician)|Bill Martin]], [[Phil Coulter]], UK No. 3), "[[If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind]]" (No. 20). Black had a further big hit with "[[Something Tells Me (Something's Gonna Happen Tonight)]]" (UK No. 3) in 1971.<ref name="UKcharts"/>

Black's association with the Beatles continued. At the 1971 [[Cannes Film Festival]] she joined [[George Harrison]], [[Ringo Starr]] and singer [[Marc Bolan]] to attend a screening of the [[John Lennon]]–[[Yoko Ono]] experimental film ''Erection''. She also holidayed with Harrison and Starr on a trip aboard a yacht chartered by Starr. "[[Photograph (Ringo Starr song)|Photograph]]" was written on this trip—originally intended for Black—but Starr decided to record it himself. George Harrison also wrote two songs for Black: "The Light that has Lighted the World" and "I'll Still Love You (When Every Song is Sung)". The latter she recorded during 1974 with her then-producer [[David Mackay (producer)|David Mackay]], but it was not heard publicly until 2003 when it was included on a retrospective collection entitled ''Cilla: The Best of 1963–78''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cillablack.com/cpt_news/ill-still-love-you-when-every-song-is-sung-a-lost-song-penned-for-cilla-by-george-harrison-receives-may-2003-release/ |title=I'll Still Love You (When Every Song Is Sung)' – a 'lost' song penned for Cilla by George Harrison receives May 2003 release|publisher=CillaBlack.com|date=1 April 2003|access-date=4 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721103226/http://www.cillablack.com/cpt_news/ill-still-love-you-when-every-song-is-sung-a-lost-song-penned-for-cilla-by-george-harrison-receives-may-2003-release|archive-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

Writing in 1969, the rock music journalist [[Nik Cohn]] wrote:
{{blockquote|...she makes people glow. In her time, she will grow into a pop [[Gracie Fields]], much loved entertainer, and she'll become institutionalised.<ref name="Stanley">{{cite news|last=Stanley|first=Bob|title=Cilla Black was the archetypal British working-class star|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/aug/03/cilla-black-archetypal-british-working-class-pop-star|date=3 August 2015|access-date=3 August 2015}}</ref>|sign=|source=}}