Ringo wrote, "Cilla, Peace and Love, Ringo and Barbara." Paul and Family: "All our love to our darlin' Cilla and family, the McCartney family."
Fans, family and fellow stars have turned out to pay their respects to Cilla Black at her funeral in Liverpool.
Photo: Mike McCartney with Carol Vorderman and Tom Jones arrived at the church together .
Cilla Black's 1964 hit Anyone Who Had A Heart was played during Holy Communion
and her coffin left the church to the sound of The Long And Winding
Road by her friends The Beatles.
Hundreds of people applauded and threw flowers as her funeral cortege made its way to St Mary's RC Church. Cliff Richard told mourners the journey to the church had made him realise "how much people loved her".TV stars Paul O'Grady, Jimmy Tarbuck and Christopher Biggins joined her sons Robert and Ben in giving readings.
The funeral Mass was celebrated by the Right Reverend Thomas Williams, Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.
Two
of Black's sons also delivered readings. Robert Willis described his
mother as a "wonderful lady who had touched all our lives and brought
joy and laughter" to those she knew.
He said: "Her pure enthusiasm, self belief and wonderful sense of humour made being with her a joy and a pleasure."
Mr Willis added that she was a "trailblazer in the fields of music and television" and "set the bar high and it's still there".
His brother Ben Willis later spoke, saying his mother "was always young at heart".
He
continued: "I think this was one of the reasons so many people loved
her dearly. She loved being a star. She lived to entertain and make
people happy."
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