Following a Northern England tradition, Ringo is sent out and left alone in the street. The tradition calls for the back door to be opened at midnight (to let the old year out) and the first dark haired man to be seen to come through the front door carrying salt, coal and bread. This means that the following year everyone in the house will have enough to eat (bread), enough money (salt) and be warm enough (coal). Ringo and Cilia became friends when they were young and frequented the Cavern Club together. She worked as a cloakroom attendant at the Cavern and sang on stage when the opportunity arose. Brian Epstein managed her career. Her singles “Anyone Who Had a Heart” and “You’re My World” both reached number one in the UK in 1964 and “Anyone Who Had A Heart” was the top selling single by a female artist in the UK during the 1960s. She had 11 top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart between then and 1971, and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. She had a couple modest hits in the US. Cilia died in 2015 at the age of 72 after a fall at her villa in Southern Spain.
