Bachman-Turner Overdrive

A lawsuit between the brothers resulted. She is worth an estimated £15 million (2003) and she owns luxury homes in Buckinghamshire, West London, Marbella and Barbados. They reunited in the 1980s, leading to a lawsuit as one group, led by Randy, toured as Bachman-Turner Overdrive and another, led by Robbie, toured as BTO. One of them, Robert, succeeded his father as her manager. After the release of Freeways in 1977, Randy Bachman left the group for a solo career and another band, Ironhorse, and what was left of Bachman-Turner Overdrive released a pair of disappointing albums before breaking up. They had 3 sons. The band continued to steadily produce successful albums through the mid-1970s including Four Wheel Drive and Head On (both 1975). She was married to her manager Bobby Willis for over 30 years until his death in the late 1990s.

Tim Bachman left to become a record producer and was replaced by Blair Thorton and the first album with the modified lineup, 1974's Not Fragile became a hit, including the #1 single "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet". In 2003 she released a music career retrospective New Beginnings. Their second album with this line-up was Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, and it became a massive hit in the US and their native Canada. It also yielded their best-remembered single, "Takin' Care of Business". In 1993 she was awarded an OBE. After two moderately successful Brave Belt albums, Allan was replaced by Tim Bachman, the third of the Bachman brothers, and the band changed its name to Bachman-Turner Overdrive; the band released its first album under that name in the Spring of 1973. She remains an extremely popular personality in the UK. An original plan included Keith Emerson of The Nice, though he was dropped due to illness. She hosted the popular television programme Blind Date (1985 - 2003), Surprise, Surprise (1984 - 1999) and Moment of Truth (1998 - 2001).

The precursor to BTO was the band Brave Belt, formed in 1970 by Randy Bachman of The Guess Who with Chad Allan (also of The Guess Who), Robbie Bachman and Fred Turner. Black continued recording and became a popular TV personality in the 1970s, hosting her own long-running variety series, and her TV work began to eclipse her musical fame. Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) is a Canadian rock band that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s. Her last Top Ten hit was "Something Tells Me" in 1971. 20th Century Masters (2000). After Epstein's death and a disastrous appearance in the flop film Work Is a Four-Letter Word, Black's pop career began to decline. King Biscuit Flower Hour (1998). She branched into acting with 1964's Ferry Cross the Mersey, which also featured another member of Epstein's management stable, Gerry & The Pacemakers. Epstein remained her manager after dropping most of his other acts, but she decided to leave him in 1966 for Robert Stigwood; before she could, however, Epstein died of a drug overdose.

Trial By Fire (1996). Frequently using songs composed by close friend Paul McCartney -- including her 1968 hit Step Inside Love -- Cilla's chart success continued until the end of the Sixties. Drive On (1994). The other song most often associated with her is the Bacharach-David song Alfie, the theme from the Michael Caine film of the same name. Produced by the notoriously perfectionistic Burt Bacharach and recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Cilla cited the Alfie recording session as one of the most demanding of her pop career. BTO Anthology (1993). It is one of the best-remembered songs of her career and also gave Cilla her first major chart success in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. BTO's Greatest (1987). Her next single and her second #1 hit, You're My World, was an English version of the Italian popular song Il Mio Mondo.

Greatest Hits Live (1986). It launched her on an extraordinarily successful pop career and she went on to score twenty consecutive Top 40 hits on the British single and EP charts, including eleven British Top Ten singles and two consecutive #1 singles in 1964. Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1984). It had already been a hit for Dionne Warwick but Cilla's 1964 version shot to #1 in Britain and became the biggest selling single by a female artist in the history of British popular music. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (1983). Her second single was the Burt Bacharach-Hal David composition "Anyone Who Had a Heart". Rock n' Roll Nights (1979). The single peaked at a modest #35, making it a failure, relatively speaking, compared to most of Epstein's other artists.

Street Action (1978). Epstein signed Cilla to Parlophone records and introduced her to George Martin, who produced her debut single, "Love of the Loved" (written for her by Lennon and McCartney), which was released only three weeks after she signed with Epstein. Freeways (1977). But after seeing her again at the Blue Angel jazz club, Epstein signed Cilla up as his only female client on September 6, 1963. Japan Tour Live (1977). The first audition was not successful, partly because of nerves, and partly because the Beatles (who backed her) played the songs in their vocal key rather than re-pitching them for Cilla's voice. Best Of BTO So Far (1976). Cilla was introduced to Epstein by John Lennon who persuaded him to audition her.

Head On (1976). Although her first name was often shortened to "Cilla", her stage name came about by accident when local music paper Mersey Beat misprinted her name as Cilla Black, but she liked the sound and decided to use it professionally. Four Wheel Drive (1975). She became close friends with the Beatles and after their breakthrough to international success in 1963, their manager Brian Epstein took over the management of a number of other musicians from Liverpool. Not Fragile (1974). During this period she also worked as waitress at the Zodiac coffee lounge, where she met her future husband and manager Bobby Willis. Bachman-Turner Overdrive II (1973). Ideally placed to promote herself to local musicians, she impressed The Beatles and others with her talent and began her stage career with impromptu performances at the Cavern.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1972). In the early 1960s, determined to break into show business, she got a job as a part-time as a cloakroom attendant at the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles regularly played. A naturally gifted singer, as a child Cilla was encouraged to sing by her family. Cilla Black (born Priscilla Maria Veronica White on May 27, 1943) is a British singer and entertainer, and was the second-biggest star to emerge from the Liverpool scene after the Beatles.