Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) song, which was only a moderate hit in the US at #32. Interest in any one recorded version of "Alfie" was dissipated by the plethora of easy listening-oriented covers which were in release by the summer of 1966. Cilla Black titled her 2004 autobiography "What's It All About?", a reference to the opening phrase of the song. The grave marker beneath the headstone on her burial plot in Allerton Cemetery is inscribed with four lines taken from the bridge and the third verse of "Alfie". Lyrics from Black's hits "Step Inside Love" and "You're My World" also appear on the
Tony Selby the BBC television drama "Three Clear Sundays", directed by Ken Loach. He had one of his earliest film acting roles in The Early Bird (1965) "Alfie" (1966), starring Academy award-winner Michael Caine, and his other film appearances include "Press for Time" (1966), "Poor Cow" (1967), "Witchfinder General" (1968), "Before Winter Comes" (1969), "In Search of Gregory" (1969), "Villain" (1971), "Nobody Ordered Love" (1972), and "" (1973). In 1971-2 he played magician's assistant Sam Maxstead in children's supernatural TV series "Ace of Wands" and had a brief 1972 appearance as a jealous fiancé in "Public Eye". Other notable television appearances included