(Updated) Morrissey has commented over on TTY...
Cilla Black, RIP - true-to-you.net
2 August 2015
There's no way back to the world you knew. The Smiths covered Cilla's
Work Is A Four-letter Word, just as they covered Twinkle's
Golden Lights (Twinkle also died this year), just as I covered Lynn Anderson's
Rose Garden, and of course, Lynn slipped away last week.
Never stationary throughout the 1960s, Cilla Black made some great records -
The Right One Is Left,
Suffer Now I Must,
It's For You,
I've Been Wrong Before,
What Good Am I?
I'm very grateful for the songs, and it never occurred to me that such people could die.
Morrissey
2 August 2015
I posted this over on the condolence thread, but seeing as there's a Smiths link, I'm posting it here too.
Cilla Black dies, aged 72: Stars mourn much-loved singer - The Telegraph
Former singer and TV presenter Cilla Black dies at her Spanish home, aged 72