Page 13 of the Daily Star, Friday 19th November 1993:
Fury over TV poem on Cilla murder
NICOLA PITTAMA TV station was blasted yesterday for broadcasting a poem gloating over the murder of Cilla Black.
The sicko work fantasised that the Blind Date hostess was bludgeoned with a hammer.
Now comedian Peter Baynham - who read it on Granada's late-night show The Full Monty - has triggered a storm.
After starting with the words Cilla Black is dead, Hooray! the poem concludes:
The hammer down upon her head
Cilla Black now Cilla Red
And as she lay there in the mud
She lost a lorra, lorra blood.Former Lord Mayor of Liverpool Rosie Cooper, who has complained to TV watchdogs, fumed: "This so-called poem is sick and appalling. Cilla must be fuming."
A spokesman for Granada said: "It was intended as light-humour."
Cilla herself would not comment.
Worth noting that long-time Baynham collaborator Armando Iannucci featured a staged autopsy of Cilla Black in his series Time Trumpet last year and received no reaction, negative or otherwise.
You wouldn't happen to have a copy of this song, would you?