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I defer to my elders here (so that's a slap from Maggie, sorry Malc), but she was exactly of her time. Cilla had a big voice, but it did nothing for me. There was no such thing as teenagerdom prior to then - you were just a replica of your parents until the revolution.
My Auntie Maureen was very glam but was stilll a teenager at school when I was born. I remember Bobby's girl and Susan Maughan and the big sticky out frocks, and the other early ones I can remember her playing were Helen Shapiro Walking Back to Happiness and Elvis (Rock a Hula Rock B. side I Can't Help Falling in Love With You). I'd have been about 6 and I had the job (on a Fri night) of standing on the stool and backcombing her hair as high as I could get it and spraying it until I was nearly gassed, lol.
It was wonderment to a small child to see this massive birds nest being transformed into a thing of beauty. Then the clothes, oh the clothes, she used to stand on the same stool and have me pin up her hems and then the same when she was chopping inches off skirts. And the shoes, oh joy, as Dairy says, she had a pair, navy slingback with a white pointed toe I coveted so badly. She also taught us to jive and then to do the twist.
That will be my lasting memory of her, Maureen, clip clopping up the road to get the bus in her high heels, happy, happy days 
She once went out with a guy who had one of those bubble cars that opened at the front, great fun.
I was 10 in 1965 and my sister 10yrs older than me. I would pinch her Beatles Monthly and read it before her, it would drive her mad.
I got a white dress that was divided black and white panels, and a pair of shoes to match when I was 11. I remember going the cinema to see The Sound of Music with my friend and her mum and wearing this outfit. Oh I felt so grown up!!!
My sister used to go the Cavern in her lunch hour quite often. I think it was a fantastic era and I wish I'd been older to enjoy much more.
Oh Mouse thank you so much. Too tired tonight and off to bed but will check tomorrow. See I knew you were speshul and edumicated. It will be a pleasure to decorate your drawers 
I really do listen to her CDs, they're always out.
well come on then Rainy, I'll lock OH up in the attic and we can get all the records out and have a ball, well I'll get OH out of the attic to make the coffee heee heeee.....
my old bosses wife used to go the cavern a lot, she knew the beatles too. I bet she was in there the same time as my sister but they never knew each other! My bil, still has his membership card for the cavern!
thankyou for the nice comments Rainy....I'll away and knock up a nice BIG cake for your arrival.
I agree saasher, I think the prom style dresses are lovely, but you need a middle (ie a waist) and mine has gone, dunno where, lol
Capt B. once I get myself sorted I'll be right there and thank you for you know what Couldn't sleep last night and came across some fabric and made one little thing for the Halloween swap. Not sure about it though 
I enjoyed all three and I would have been interested in another one for her next 30 or so years.
She's getting a bit OTT now like Brucey did (and all of them really as they get old) but I like her.
And Aneurin Barnard, the guy who played Bobby Willis also played Richard 111 in The White Queen
