Cilla returns with her 15th studio album... Cilla re-signed to EMI Records earlier in 2003 and on the 22 September she releases her new album Beginnings (Cat #5931812). This is her latest project for the recording giant that launched her singing career in 1963.

"EMI in their infinite wisdom have signed me with an option of another album..."

Cilla began recording for Beginnings in June and July 2003 with producer Ted Carfrae (the man behind David Cassidy's Top 5 comeback album "Then and Now"). The aim for this project was to return to the same quality and diverse music Cilla produced during the 1960s/70s. It was notably during this era that Ted first worked with Cilla as an assistant sound engineer on her albums Modern Priscilla (1978) and Especially For You (1980).

The finished 20 track CD is named after Cilla's brand new song penned by Burt Bacharach who scored her '60s hits Anyone who had a heart and Alfie. As well as featuring some of Cilla's biggest selling singles (all digitally remastered from original studio tapes) the album includes eleven new studio recordings such as her covers of the Nashville hit Beautiful Goodbye and Nat King Cole's Let There Be Love.

The legendary Cliff Richard also provides backing vocals to a heartfelt interpretation of the John Lennon song Imagine. Watch out also for remakes of Cilla's singles I've Been Wrong Before and a late night lounge version of Anyone Who Had A Heart. 
 

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