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
Michael Caine supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" by Caine was voted favourite film one-liner in a 2003 poll of 1,000 film fans. After working on "The Italian Job" with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot squadron leader Canfield in the all-star cast of "Battle of Britain" (both 1969), Caine played the lead in "Get Carter" (1971), a British gangster film. Caine was busy with successes including "Sleuth" (1972) opposite Laurence Olivier, and John Huston's "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975) co-starring Sean Connery which received widespread acclaim. "The Times" applauded the "lovely double act of