Brian Epstein

She started out working in the cloakroom at the Cavern Club, where fellow Liverpudlians, The Beatles, were first spotted. The band championed Cilla and introduced her to their manager Brian Epstein, who then signed her

Photographer Robert Whitaker, who shot some of the most famous, and infamous, images of The Beatles, has died at the age of 71.

She started out working in the cloakroom at the Cavern Club, where fellow Liverpudlians, The Beatles, were first spotted. The band championed Cilla and introduced her to their manager Brian Epstein, who then signed her

Photographer Robert Whitaker, who shot some of the most famous, and infamous, images of The Beatles, has died at the age of 71.