page_title: I'll Still Love You
section_title: Cilla Black
hierarchical_section_title: I'll Still Love You / Pre-Ringo's Rotogravure recording history / Cilla Black
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Engelse zangeres Cilla Black hield persconferentie in Apollo hotel Amsterdam. Cilla Black 16 februari 1970
context_page_description: "I'll Still Love You" is a song written by English musician George Harrison and first released in 1976 by his former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr. Produced by Arif Mardin, the track appeared on Starr's debut album for Atlantic Records and Polydor, Ringo's Rotogravure. The composition had a long recording history before then, having been written in 1970 as "Whenever", after which it was copyrighted with the title "When Every Song Is Sung".
  Harrison originally intended the song for Welsh singer Shirley Bassey, who had a hit in the summer of 1970 with a cover version of his Beatles composition "Something". Although Harrison recorded "When Every Song Is Sung" himself during the sessions for All Things Must Pass that year, it was not included on his album. He went on to produce recordings of the track by former Ronette Ronnie Spector in February 1971, and Cilla Black in August 1972, but neither version was completed for release. Mary Hopkin and Leon and Mary Russell also attempted the song during the first half of the 1970s, with Harrison participating in the Russells' recording.
context_section_description: Due to his commitment to the Bangladesh relief effort, Harrison's music-making was limited for much of 1971 and the following year. In early August 1972, shortly after the UK release of the Concert for Bangladesh film, he resumed his role as a record producer with a session for a new Cilla Black single, the A-side of which was to be "When Every Song Is Sung". The recording took place at Apple Studio in London, during Black's day off from her summer variety season in Blackpool. Among the support musicians were Voormann, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton.
  A second Harrison composition, "You Got to Stay With Me", was also attempted at the session, but as with the Ronnie Spector solo album, the project was not completed. Black told radio presenter Spencer Leigh that her ability to record that day was hindered by her discomfort following a dental appointment just before the session began. The B-side that Harrison started writing for her similarly took an alternative route, ending up as the autobiographical "The Light That Has Lighted the World", which he chose to include on his 1973 album Living in the Material World.
  According to author Alan Clayson, former Apple artist Mary Hopkin also recorded a version of "When Every Song Is Sung" during this period. Black told Leigh that she still thought the song was "super", and so re-recorded it over 1974–75, this time with producer David Mackay. She said of this later recording: "even then, [the song] didn't have the magic it deserved. It should have had a 'Yesterday'-type arrangement."
  In his book The Beatles Diary Volume 2, Keith Badman writes that Harrison and Black met in a London restaurant over Christmas in 1982 and discussed completing their recordings from ten years before. Black's Mackay-produced version of the song was eventually released in May 2003, as "I'll Still Love You (When Every Song Is Sung)", on her three-CD compilation Cilla: The Best of 1963–78.
caption: Cilla Black, pictured in 1970
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