Poor Bobby
It was messed up how Cilla was treating him, she was kinda being a bitch...
I'm a man of few words. Thank you.
Yeah she was.
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I thought so too, in fact, I think the second episode was the high point of the series. Not that the other two eps weren't good, but the middle one was best.
The 3rd ep started out good, but then lost a lot of steam and the ending was too anti-climactic. (Bit of a letdown.)
Yep. I enjoyed the series and I remember Cilla in my childhood, but I had never known that she'd squashed a career Bobby could have had.
I guess they still had a happy life together anyway, however.
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Re Cilla squashing Bobby's career as a pop singer. That was mean. But I suppose that she gave him a longer and more lucrative career as her manager. As a pop singer, he would have been forgotten by now.
shareI think they were offering him a contract to keep him around and keep her on the bait. They have hearts of stone in the music industry.
sharecilla admitted herself the offer of a contract was genuine and he was talented but she said she talked him out of it as in her words there was only room for one ego in her house and it was hers so she was bein a bitch and selfish
shareCilla went on to become the highest-selling female artist in the UK. She didn't get to that point without being self-absorbed. Bobby didn't strike me as the sort of bloke anyone pushed around and he made that clear to Brian when he turned him down. I watched interviews with them and the journo tried to get Bobby to whinge, but the tables were turned when the interviewer asked Bobby how he felt to have his songs on the B sides of recordings and he replied "wealthy! By all accounts they were happy, had children and a long, devoted relationship and by his own words, he was a wealthy man from his talents, too. Not a bad outcome.
shareShe was surely his meal ticket! They both strike me as not very pleasant people offscreen.
shareCilla went on to become the highest-selling female artist in the UK. She didn't get to that point without being self-absorbed. Bobby didn't strike me as the sort of bloke anyone pushed around and he made that clear to Brian when he turned him down. I watched interviews with them and the journo tried to get Bobby to whinge, but the tables were turned when the interviewer asked Bobby how he felt to have his songs on the B sides of recordings and he replied "wealthy! By all accounts they were happy, had children and a long, devoted relationship and by his own words, he was a wealthy man from his talents, too. Not a bad outcome.
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