Cliff Richard

Cliff Richard turns, 71, insisted that he would never retire

2011-10-15T05:50:00.000-07:00

Sir Cliff Richard turns on 71-years-old insisted that he would never retire, but admits that trying to slow in recent years. The singer Soulicious' in Nottingham UK tour starts this week, according to the Press Association reports.

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Sir Cliff claims that no one is tired, old favorites and insists that he'll continue to perform such as 'Living Doll' and 'We Don't Talk Anymore' for years to come.

He said, "While I won't ever retire - it sounds so serious, that word - I have tried to slow down. I mean, I could stop tomorrow, not announce anything officially and just work when I want to".

Cliff joked he is glad to perform for his fans as long as he doesn't wants the aid of a Zimmer frame.

On the state of the music industry, the singer explained, "We sold millions of records in those days. People are getting to number one with 50,000 sales these days, but at least when I get on stage and sing a hit, it really was a hit.It's amazing how many people know my songs". The veteran's new record 'Soulicious: The Soul Album' features collaborations with Freda Payne, Candi Staton and Roberta Flack.

Sir Cliff tour 'Soulicious' tour will present at Nottingham, Manchester and Birmingham before performing at London's O2 Arena on Wednesday 26th October 2011.

Cliff Richard insisted that he will never retire

2011-10-05T03:51:00.000-07:00

Sir Cliff Richard insisted that he will never retire, but he is slow.

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The singer released a new album in 71 days before the start of UK tour is in October.

He said: "While I won't ever retire - it sounds so serious, that word - I have tried to slow down.

"I mean, I could stop tomorrow, not announce anything officially and just work when I want to.

"I could do something every five years and no-one would stop me doing that, but I have too much fun.

"As long as I don't have to go on stage with a Zimmer frame, I'll keep going."

Cliff on stage as Living Doll and We Don't Talk Anymore with their new songs will be performing classic hits.

He said of his chart-toppers: "We sold millions of records in those days. People are getting to number one with 50,000 sales these days, but at least when I get on stage and sing a hit, it really was a hit.

"It's amazing how many people know my songs."

Cliff Richard is a new battle for royalties for songwriters

2011-09-23T10:20:00.000-07:00

Sir Cliff Richard is a new battle for royalties for songwriters who would provide copyright laws is celebrating after winning.

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On Monday (12Sep11), European Union Council of messianic singer composer of music for an additional 25 years to benefit from the creation of the proposal voted in favor.

Under the 50-year rule, the copyright on songs by Richard, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and The Who would have will expire in the next few years, somehow the songs allowed to use and to receive royalties from record labels and artists will be over.

Rolling Stones star Mick Jagger tells the Bbc that the EU's decision was "obviously advantageous" to musicians, adding, "Obviously the record business is not what it was, so people don't earn as much as they used to. (The royalties) can extend their lives and the lives of their families who inherit their songs."

Abba star Bjorn Ulvaeus was also thrilled by the ruling, stating, "Now I won't have to see Abba being used in a TV commercial."

Legend Cliff Richard tour dates with British soul music

2011-08-17T12:07:00.000-07:00

British Music Legend Cliff Richard with British soul music greats who have appeared on the album along with some of their new album Soulicious will visit in October.

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According to Music-news.com, Richard said: “I want to present a balanced show of the old favorites and this terrific group of singers helping me to perform songs I recently recorded in America.”

Lamont Dozier (Motown songwriter), Freda Payne (“Band of Gold”), Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. (of The Fifth Dimension), and Percy Sledge (“When a Man Loves a Woman”) will all perform their own sets as well as duet alongside Sir Cliff.

Cliff Richard tour dates:

October 15 - Nottingham Arena
October 17 - Manchester Evening News Arena
October 19 - Liverpool Echo Arena
October 22 - Birmingham LG Arena
October 23 - Birmingham LG Arena
October 25 - London 02 Arena
October 26 - London 02 Arena
October 28 - Newcastle Metro Radio Arena

Cliff Richard appeared on the soundtrack of soul food cooking

2011-07-25T14:47:00.000-07:00

SIR Cliff Richard appeared on the soundtrack of soul food cooking when he broke from recording Fried Chicken restaurant in Memphis to show their cooking skills can make.

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The 70-years-old singer is in the US making an album of duets with soul veterans, including Candi Staton and Lamont Dozier, impressed diners at Gus’s Fried Chicken. Staton 71-years-old, was among them.

She 1960s disco hit from a major goal of the first soul record, a series of critically acclaimed records in 1976Young Hearts Run Free.

She said: “I have never seen a white man cook Cajun fried rice and southern potato salad like Cliff. He’s obviously got a lot of soul in that rather lean body of his.”

Sir Cliff Richard, 40 years after parting ways with his secretary

2011-07-13T05:40:00.000-07:00

Veteran crooner Sir Cliff Richard, 40 years after parting ways with his secretary.

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The British singer hired Gill Snow in the 1970s to help organize your hard work scdly and that's when she team has been a constant presence.

But Richard said his working relationship earlier this year decided to end (11) Cliff Richard and the snow in March (11) lost her job.

Confirming the news, Snow tells the DailyMail.co.uk, "It’s over and I’m on to a new phase of my life. The office is continuing. A new (Cliff Richard) tour has just been announced and a new album."

Cliff Richard claims that his impromptu singalong of a publicity stunt at Wimbledon

2011-06-22T12:45:00.000-07:00

British pop singer Sir Cliff Richard claims that his impromptu singalong of a publicity stunt at Wimbledon in 1996 was that angry.

Singalong when rain stopped play on Centre Court, the 70-year-old has led. However, he claimed that it is a publicity stunt was angry.

A spokesman explained that the singer is singing star after the officers asked him for an interview, suggested that he should sing it.

The Daily Express quoted his spokesman as saying on his website, "There is a story afoot that Cliff’s impromptu singalong at Wimbledon was engineered by his then PR Company. This was not the case".

The spokesperson added, "Cliff was approached by Wimbledon officials initially for a straightforward interview and they subsequently suggested that he sing a song or two".

Cliff Richard was Britain's first rock star

2011-06-13T06:37:00.000-07:00

Cliff Richard was Britain's first rock star, but with his first hit of the year within the Move It. He joined a new band was Drifters (later shadow) of the Lionel Bart number, Living Doll to record a version.

The arrival of a soft voice and a family and many friends Marked as image more than a million copies sold.

This Richard was the first of 14 No 1s. (And in 1986, it returned to the top, in a memorable version recorded with the Young Ones.)

Cliff Richard fans at Metro Radio Arena - live video

2011-05-28T14:42:00.000-07:00

A news released on 15th May, Cliff Richard fanatics set up base near the bottom of the Metro Radio Arena steps with their hearts set on getting front row seats when tickets go on sale.

Tickets Tour dates are as follows:

Capital FM Arena, Nottingham – 15th October
MEN Arena, Manchester – 17th
Echo Arena, Liverpool – 19th
LG Arena, Birmingham – 22nd & 23rd
The o2 arena, London – 25th & 26th
Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle – 28th

Cliff Richard Tickets are on sale from 9am on Sunday 15th May.

Cliff Richard fans buy their tickets for October concerts in the queue

2011-05-16T10:02:00.000-07:00

Cliff Richard fans buy their tickets for October concerts in the queue for the initial week has begun.

According to The Sun reports that early arrival is a handful of Birmingham Council set up camp out at the end of last week that he believed the sale of tickets despite it not going to buy Sunday to arrange.

Fan Alison Hadley explained, "Camping out is all part of the experience".

Another Richard fanatic, Sally Rab has also is expected to front row seats in the first row with her husband George has started.

She said, "I can't risk trying to get a ticket on the phone or online".

The 70 years old entertainer later this year will perform eight dates, starting October 15 in Nottingham and Newcastle finishing up on October 28.

Sir Cliff Richard Southampton 2011 Passion

2011-04-19T07:32:00.000-07:00

The UK No1 hit by the last five decades with the singer's most successful.

Now pop veteran Sir Cliff Richard Southampton 2011 Passion, in which he is coming to town Friday in support is fast.

Original Bachelor Boy and 'shadows frontman spent more than 50 years in showbusiness, hey, the crowd called free products in Guildhall Square from 6pm on Friday not miss the Easter I will tell the true story.

Sir Cliff, 70, said: “I send my very best wishes to all involved in the Southampton Passion. Its intention to give Jesus His rightful place at the heart of Easter has my total backing. I hope Easter 2011 will be memorable and life-changing for many.”

Pop legend Sir Cliff's only free around 10,000 people, on the earth songs, dance and acting through Jesus story last week set up to attract celebrity did not return.

Eighties pop star Yazz said it was her “privilege”

She said: “I sincerely express my total support for this exciting occasion, knowing it will bring eternal life-changing consequences.

Cliff Richard talks new album

2011-03-22T15:16:00.000-07:00

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2011-03-09T12:45:00.000-08:00

Cliff Richard song If I give My Heart to You - video n lyrics

2011-03-01T09:39:00.000-08:00

Sir Cliff Richard has support to a new North East cancer charity

2011-02-24T13:36:00.000-08:00

Sir Cliff Richard has support to a new North East cancer charity - all the way from his luxury Caribbean villa.

From his holiday home in Barbados, Sir Cliff as a brush after the site that greeted Maggie Alderson new volunteers to ask for his autograph courage plucked.

Cliff signed his photograph to donate for the charity has been set up by former hotelier.

His message reads: “To Daft As A Brush Cancer Patient Care, good luck, Cliff Richard”.

Mrs Alderson, grandmother of nine, Gosforth, the New Castle in the sun for a three-week period with friends flew out tropical island.

She said: “I went out to Barbados with some friends who I’ve known for about 14 years now. On one of the evenings we were socialising and I met a man who said he knew Sir Cliff.

People don’t normally talk about charity when they go on holiday, but I started to tell him about Daft As A Brush because it’s such an amazing concept.

When I went home, I started wondering if he would be able to get a signed photo of Sir Cliff for the charity. I asked one of my friends about it and she said it would be OK to ask him.

And then he presented me with this picture and I just couldn’t believe it. I was absolutely blown away.

I couldn’t wait to get back and show Brian.”

'Extremists' target radio station because they play Cliff Richard

2011-02-14T15:20:00.000-08:00

A local radio station's website was hacked into by 'extremists' because they played a song by Cliff Richard, the station's owner claims. Radio Basingstoke was exchanged for a message cautions "the west" that they should not insult Islam.

Owner of the station Astrid Haigh-Smith told The Daily Mail she trusts it was because Cliff Richard is on their playlist. Haigh-Smith said: "I just consideration maybe it was because we had commented that we hoped our hordes would be safe over Christmas. We’ve also played the Cliff Richard version of 'Hallelujah', but we would never dream of running down any religions."

The website was hacked into on January 5 and on January 7 by extremists asserting to work on behalf of Ahmed Al-Qahtani, who is supposed to have been concerned in the attacks in the US on September 11, 2001.

The hackers left a message saying: "Whoever thinks of insulting Islam or Muslims will suffer the same fate. We are the terrifying of western websites in the cyber war."

Sir Cliff Richard Gets An Official Facebook Page

2011-02-09T00:47:00.000-08:00

Finally at the age of 70,Sir Cliff Richard is finally gets a an official Facebook fan page.

Sir Cliff now declares: “I didn’t think I needed a Facebook page because I didn’t think any of you used computers. I’m absolutely amazed how many of you do. I’m really new to this sort of thing, so don’t expect too much from me.”

For a similar story about Sir Elton John and the iPad 2, follow the link. Leave us your thoughts on Sir Cliff joining the social network, and if you the fans will be able to stay in touch with him even better than you are now.

Sir Cliff Richard Album Review:Bold as Brass

2011-01-28T13:08:00.000-08:00

There is nothing reality about this album.The songs are very well written and Richard has been recording for about half a century - yet it does work.

In album Bold as Brass singer Richard takes a step back to the jazz/swing era and he proves he can still hold his own against the younger generation of Jamie Callum wannabes.

Cliff Richard classic such as I've Got You Under My Skin and Accentuate the Positive reflects his strong voice which is perfectly suited to this genre, injecting an uncommon level of energy.

Backed by a range of instruments, including the brass section alluded to in the title, Richard can croon with the best of them.

Highlights include a sassy version of Lazy River and surprisingly saucy I Just Want to Make Love to You.

Peter Pan meets lounge lizard is an effective combination.

Jackson 5 to team up alongside Cliff Richard

2011-01-15T15:21:00.000-08:00

Veteran Cliff Richard a new album produced by David Gest, The Jackson 5 are set to team up alongside on a Cliff's album.

A Source said, "Cliff and members of the Jackson 5 could be one of the collaborations for the album. Hopefully they'll be recording something in the spring".

This group's late brother and David was best friends to each other, Michael Jackson and has remained close to the family since singer's death in June 2009 from acute Propofol intoxication.

Tito said, "David had one of those rare friendships with Michael where Michael could always be himself. As teenagers and into their 20s they were inseparable and were always getting into trouble and playing jokes on everyone. David was the other brother by another mother to Michael and I. He was never afraid to stand up to Michael and tell him the truth, whether he wanted to hear it or not."

Jackson 5 to team up with Cliff Richard

2011-01-12T13:33:00.000-08:00

The Jackson 5 are set to collaborate up with veteran singer Cliff Richard on a new album produced by David Gest.

'Cliff and members of the Jackson 5 could be one of the collaborations for the album. Hopefully they'll be recording something in the spring,'according to sources.

'David had one of those rare friendships with Michael where Michael could always be himself,' said Tito.

'As teenagers and into their 20s they were inseparable and were always getting into trouble and playing jokes on everyone. David was the other brother by another mother to Michael and I.

'He was never afraid to stand up to Michael and tell him the truth, whether he wanted to hear it or not.'

Cliff Richard on DVD

2011-01-08T08:32:00.000-08:00

Long before Justin Bieber,Another name of Cliff Richard was Peter Pan of Pop.

Single Richard’s sexuality was a question have been asked several times,no answer has every been forthcoming.

But still we he has been in industry for more than 20 years hasn’t stopped him earning a legion of fans.

To celebrate his 70th birthday Sir Cliff – yes he is 70 and yes, he has been knighted by the Queen – performed a collection of his greatest hits at London’s Royal Albert Hall in a show known as Bold As Brass.

Cliff Richard Looking to Make Motown Duets Album

2010-12-30T17:40:00.000-08:00

Cliff Richard has unveil to England's Daily Express that his forthcoming album will be a duets set with artists from the Motown roster.

Richard explained "The New Year has an exciting project. David Gest, of I’m A Celebrity… has come up with the idea of me doing a CD, Cliff Richard Sings Soul with various Motown soul artists. We are working now on the details."

The 70 year old is want to duet with few celebrities names for the project, which he dreamed up with reality TV star David Gest.

Cliff Richard Next Album Motown Roster

2010-12-24T13:42:00.000-08:00

Cliff Richard new next album will be duets set with artists from the Motown roster he told the England's Daily Express news.

Richard explained "The New Year has an exciting project. David Gest, of I’m A Celebrity… has come up with the idea of me doing a CD, Cliff Richard Sings Soul with various Motown soul artists. We are working now on the details."

As the former husband of Liza Minnelli gest may be best known about them and was also close with Michael Jackson.

Richard's previous album "Bold As Brass", he has lisy 53 albums and 137 singles on the British charts.

Sir Cliff Richard's Fans in Facebook bid

2010-12-15T00:37:00.000-08:00

Sir Cliff Richard's fans launch in facebook he winner of X Facto Matt Cardle, faces further competition to the christmas. He's 70 years old to the top of the charts and raise money for charity.

Sir Cliff has announced to the Alzheimer's Research Trust he will donate all download royalties. Sir Cliff lost his mother Dorothy disease three years ago to the Alzheimer's Research Trust.
Alzheimer's Research Trust chief Rebecca Wood said: "Sir Cliff has been a patron of the Alzheimer's Research Trust since 2002 and we cannot thank him enough for his wonderful support. Not only has he helped us raise over £100,000 by fronting nationwide fundraising campaigns, he has also made a number of generous personal donations. By speaking out about his mother's experience of Alzheimer's he has helped to raise awareness and lift the stigma of this devastating disease."
At universities the Alzheimer's Research Trust has supporting at least 120 projects.

Cliff Richard in Blackheath concert

2010-12-07T05:07:00.000-08:00

Cliff Richard songwritter, Chris Eaton will be being at a Christmas Celebration at a Blackheath church. In town's Central Methodist Church, Kinver had confined the festive classic hit Saviour’s Day at the concert they will perform and talk about his life. He will be connceted by musician Abby Scott and the church’s choir Live at Home for the evening of seasonal songs at the High Street church.

Sir Cliff is top of calendar charts

2010-11-29T06:33:00.000-08:00

JLS, Justin Bieber and Michael Buble has beaten up by Sir Cliff Richard. He is looking more hotter as he outsells them in the calendar charts.

According to new figures from Amazon.co.uk,The pop veteran, who stripped to the waist for one of the shots, at the age of 70, has the biggest-selling male celebrity calendar.

His age has made no difference to pin-up holds off newcomers.Sir Cliff Richard has been the all-time biggest seller for calendar maker Danilo with more than 1.5 million sold over the years.

Cliff Richard To Host Alzheimer's Show

2010-11-18T23:49:00.000-08:00

To raise funds for research into Alzheimer’s disease this weekend Sir Cliff Richard will front a special show on British TV.

The 68-year-old – knighted in 1995 – is a patron of the Alzheimer's Research Trust and lost his mother to the condition in 2007.

The show, which is part of the BBC’s Lifeline program, will air on BBC1 at 5pm on Sunday, October 19, and will be repeated on BBC2 at lunchtime on Wednesday, October 22. It will feature stories and experiences of people who live with the disease, including Elaine Moody from Nottingham, who was the first person with Alzheimer’s to run the London Marathon.

Cliff Richard's Tour With Boy George

2010-11-10T14:33:00.000-08:00

When Cliff Richard's commence with his latest tour accompanied by Una Stubbs and her wholesome chums. The most unlikely part of this tour was that he was joined by Boy George.

It was decided that the Bachelor Boy, 70, is to start tour of Germany with Boy George, 49, the cross-dressing Eighties star,who was in prison for reacting rude against rude false imprisonment of a male escort.

"What on earth is he doing?" asks one of Sir Cliff's loyal fans. "When he can fill arenas round the globe, why does he need to headline a tour on which Boy George also features?

Sir Cliff, a committed Christian, will perform some of his best songs in next month's tour at the Night of the Proms festival.As well as Boy George, whose band Culture Club enjoyed hits including Church of the Poison Mind, the line-up will also feature Kid Creole and the Coconuts, who are best known for the song Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy.

Bill Latham, Sir Cliff's agent, is keen to stress: "They won't, actually, ever be sharing a stage, or anything else, for that matter."

Cliff Richard Fan Club

2010-10-28T02:44:00.000-07:00

I am right up in the gods, in standing room only, so I can’t hear a word he’s saying. I can only hear a faint boom and, at one point the word “Brian”, which, when taken out of context, can be very mysterious. A few fans have red light sabers, which they waggle around. This looks completely obscene. But Cliff has the gift of inciting, and then ignoring his fans’ obscenities. He bops around, dancing with four crazy women in the front row, who are waving a banner saying “What a Knight”. At the end of every song he turns away from the audience and wiggles his bottom. This is horrible.

Other fans coo at me: “He’s very family orientated.” But he doesn’t have a family. He lives with a man. “Only because it didn’t work out with Olivia Newton John,” they say back, “Or Sue Barker.”

Cliff actually looks like Tony – they have the same mad, flat, nylon smile. He also has a disturbing resemblance to Lionel Blair, which upsets me because I once interviewed Lionel in his dressing room and his robe fell open. So whenever I think about Cliff Richard, I think about Lionel Blair naked.

think I am the only person in Britain who hates Cliff Richard. I feel awful about this because he gives a lot of money to charity and is clearly a nice person, even if he is so friendly with Tony Blair that he lent him his villa in Barbados because Blair looked “dwindled” after invading Iraq. Dwindled, by the way, is not an adjective. I checked.

Harmless, you say? Well, yes, and I wouldn’t think of actually banning it. But I still don’t like it. One of the fans has actually touched the bottom. She won a competition in Take a Break magazine, which meant she got to go backstage and meet him and she touched his bottom. You do know that is assault, don’t you? What did he do? “Nothing.”

I’m not getting anywhere with analyzing his appeal. For example, I speak to the Cliff Richard Fan Club – Hong Kong branch, who are here en masse. They are in matching windbreakers and they explain that in Hong Kong he is bigger than Elvis. So, why do you love Cliff Richard? And please don’t say, “He breathes.” That will upset me. The Cliff Richard Fan Club – Hong Kong branch look at me impassively and say, “He sings so…..well.” Argh! That is not an analysis!

CLIFF RICHARD THE UNSEEN

2010-08-29T12:40:00.000-07:00

Cliff Richard was back in his hits pop a wondeful unique image of new book of reminds. The vocalization of Cliff Richard’s name these days adjures up images of a clean living Christian pop story. Cliff history as a new book it was not always just matter.

Cliff save the record to Elvis Presley as only the act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades since that era. New marketed as a rebel rock ’n’ roller in the same vein as Elvis, Cliff real name Harry Webb shot to fame in 1958 and stayed there. At every illustration Mobbed by screaming girls, with his slick quiff and high cheekbones Cliff was the ultimate heart throb for the females of Britain churning out hits like Move it and Living Doll.

A singer, musician and actor extraordinaire who revolutionised the British music scene, even the illustrious.

John Lennon claimed: “Before Cliff and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth to listening the British music.”

Cliff Richard: I was attacked twice on West Cliff Drive

2010-06-25T07:22:00.000-07:00

As You See It. I was walking on West Cliff Richard Drive between the Dream Inn and the surfer statue. Past me a red car drove, I heard an inarticulate yell and I was struck on the wrist by a heavy, 3-inch stone that had been thrown from the car.
Six days later, I was walking on the same portion of West Cliff Richard. At 11:15 p.m., three cars drove past. I heard an inarticulate yell from passengers in a dark SUV, put up my hands for protection, and a large, L-shaped block of wood now in police possession struck me squarely on the knuckles. I no longer feel safe walking on West Cliff Richard in the late evening. I encourage anyone who does to exercise caution, especially in places where there is nothing to shield pedestrians from projectiles that might be thrown at them by potentially sadistic motorists.

Sir Cliff Richard, Prince William, Angela Rippon, Sue Nicholls are celebrities

2010-06-15T13:21:00.000-07:00

This week's round up of famous names supporting charitable causes
Sir Cliff Richard is backing a Cheshire man's campaign to raise £100,000 for Claire House Children's Hospice in the Wirral. Gary Ward, a tennis coach from Chester, arranged a 24-hour tennis marathon at Chester's Old Hall Country Club & Spa last weekend and is also planning a 30 day sponsored bike ride across the US in September. Cliff Richard said,"I find it inprobably inspiring that the people of Cheshire are pulling together and raising money for such a great cause in such an innovative way".
Sir Geoff Hurst has launched a national raffle for Brainwave, the charity for children with brain injuries or genetic conditions. The footballing story bought the first ticket in the raffle, which is being drawn on 1 October. Supporters can buy tickets to win prizes including a 14-day Mediterranean cruise.
TV presenter Angela Rippon and actor Warwick Davis, who played Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter films, have opened new offices for Kidney Research UK in Peterborough. The charity invited local businesses to share wine and canapes at the opening of the offices at the end of last month. Rippon is patron of the charity.
Coronation Street actor Sue Nicholls is supporting a campaign to help raise money for PDSA's PetAid hospital in Old Trafford, Manchester. Nicholls was photographed with a PDSA vet and the soap's two canine stars, Schmeichel and Ozzy, to promote the campaign.
"PDSA does a fantastic job here in Manchester caring for sick and injured pets, so I'm delighted to be backing this vital campaign to raise funds," she said.
HRH Prince William has become patron of a campaign to protect 2,012 playing fields across the UK by 2012, the year of the Queen's diamond jubilee. The campaign is being run by the charity Fields in Trust. "I can think of no more fitting tribute to my grandmother's 60 glorious years on the throne than to dedicate to her this programme that will save playing fields for future generations," he said.

Sussex Music Legend's member performing regular with Cliff Richard Dies.

2010-04-01T08:35:00.000-07:00

A member of Britain's first boy band has died.

As part of the Dallas Boys, Nick Clarke performed regularly with Cliff Richard and The Drifters. Nick last performed with the group at Cliff Richard's 30th anniversary concert in 1988 in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.

His wife Ruth, who moved to Peacehaven with Nick in 1997, described him as a “wonderful man”.

Nick died aged 77 on March 25. A funeral service will be held at Woodvale Crematorium, Lewes Road, Brighton, on April 6 at 11.30am.

Cliff Richard Turns to Jazz to Mark 70th Birthday

2010-03-15T08:19:00.000-07:00

LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran British singer Cliff Richard will mark his 70th birthday with the release of an album of jazz and swing music, he announced on Tuesday.
The evergreen performer, a chart topper before the Beatles arrived who has sold an estimated 250 million records over more than 50 years, will sing covers of classics including "Let's Fall in Love" and "I've Got You Under My Skin."
The 12-track album "Bold as Brass" will be released by EMI Records on October 11, three days before Richard's 70th birthday.
"With the incredible creative input of seasoned American producer Michael Omartian, and the live sound of Nashville's best swing musicians, Bold as Brass is an album I've planned and dreamt about for years," Richard said in a statement.
"It's been a long time coming, but what better way to mark my 7Oth birthday than to celebrate a genre of music which is both timeless and sheer class." Richard will also perform six concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London in October.

Cliff Richard ordered to knock down conservatory

2010-02-02T04:25:00.000-08:00

Sir Cliff Richard has been ordered to pull down a £30,000-pound conservatory at his Surrey mansion after losing a battle with planning officials.

The singer hoped to be awarded retrospective planning permission for the 17-foot extension, which he built in 2006, after Runnymede Council last year told him he had breached the rules.
Now the council has dismissed his appeal against its decision. Sir Cliff now has until March 9 to demolish the structure.

Dave Farrell, Sir Cliff's planning consultant, called the demolition order 'a bit silly'. 'We're disappointed but it's just one of those things,' he added.

Sir Cliff knocked down a bungalow on his Wentworth estate in Virginia Water to build a large mansion and planning rules allowed his new home 30 per cent more area than the original house.
The conservatory was built in 2006, but was deemed to make the new property too big. It was noticed by officials when Sir Cliff Richard put the house up for sale last year for £1.35 million.
Though he applied retrospectively for planning permission, he was turned down.

At cinema Cliff concert

2009-11-06T03:48:00.000-08:00

Cliff Richard , there is a pportunity to look the sell out concert and the Shadows at Exeter Odeon tomorrow night.
The gig, at the 02 Arena recorded live in London last week, will be screened in the cinema in HD and digital 5.1 surround sound.
The reunion tour is a complete sell out, the album has spent the last three weeks in the top five and the single went top ten, so it is a great opportunity to see the concert.
The Exeter Odeon is one of only 20 cinemas throughout the country screening the show. It starts at 7pm prompt.

The Final Reunion-Win tickets to win tickets and DVD for Cliff Richard And The Shadows

2009-10-29T14:52:00.000-07:00

IF YOU didn't manage to get tickets for the sell out Cliff Richard & The Shadows tour then this could be the next best thing.
At London's O2 Arena their performance last month was filmed live, and the Odeon in Festival Park is giving fans a opportunity to soak up the atmosphere with a particular viewing of the show on Thursday next week.
Cliff Richard first recorded and performed with The Shadows in 1959. Exactly 50 years later and 20 years since they last performed together in concert, they're together for this final national tour so this could be your only opportunity to look these music storys take to the stage together.
The exclusive screening will give local Cliff Richard & The Shadows fans the chance to enjoy all their favourite hits including Living Doll, The Young Ones, Apache and Bachelor Boy in stunning audio and visual quality.
Rachel Brown, general manager at the Odeon Stoke says: "With new technology we can now provide local cinemagoers with a complete range of screenings to suit all tastes – everything from music concerts to football.
"We're looking forward to welcoming Cliff Richard & The Shadows fans through our doors to enjoy a truly unique music experience."
For further information or ticket booking call the filmline on 0871 22 44 007 or head to the Festival Park Odeon Box Office. Cliff Richard and The Shadows, The Final Reunion will also be released on DVD from November 9 priced £19.56.
The Sentinel has teamed up with the Odeon to offer five lucky readers the opportunity to win a pair of tickets AND a Cliff Richard and The Shadows, The Final Reunion DVD.

curry house's praises, Cliff sings

2009-10-26T16:23:00.000-07:00

Sir Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin. They have visited a Tyneside Indian restaurant following a Shadows reunion show.
Sir Cliff and guitarist Marvin popped into Raval Restaurant on Newcastle Gateshead Quayside after their show at the Newcastle Arena.
Sir Cliff, who was born in India, ate the Lucknow rogan josh - a dish typical to the area where he once lived.
The restaurant's owners said Sir Cliff told them it was the good he had tasted.
Manager Avi Malik said it was particular to get such praise from someone who knew so much about Indian cuisine.
Mr Malik said: "Sir Cliff said he eats in places all over the world but our Indian food was real Indian food, the best he had ever tasted, and it was a treat to be here."
Sir Cliff and Hank Marvin also tucked into lobster and mango, and dehi bela - lentil "doughnuts" in yoghurt and coriander.
The two were invited to look around the kitchen to watch food being prepared.
Hank Marvin, who is originally from Newcastle, but now lives in Australia, spoke to staff about the positive changes that had taken place in his home town.

Doing it by rote, Cliff Richard returns

2009-10-22T10:11:00.000-07:00

Pop star Cliff Richard, it appeared like a good idea to catch Britain's evergreens he kicked off his big 50th anniversary reunion tour with his original band the Shadows, who went separate ways 20 years ago. But as Simone Signoret famously said, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
I was a kid in England when Richard was among the crop of embarrassing British singers trying their best to emulate Elvis, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and the rest. With names like Billy Fury, Marty Wilde and Vince Eager, they gyrated onto the BBC with lame cover versions of U.S. hits and rinky dink originals from London's fiercely anti rock Tin Pan Alley.
Richard and the Shadows at least wrote their own material, but hearing it all repeated with soulless efficiency in their O2 Arena concert Monday brought back those dog days when Elvis seemed so far away and the Beatles, Kinks and Stones hadn't arrived yet.
Extremely well preserved physically, Richard and the two leading Shadows, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, looked immaculate in their polished attire and did their unctuous best to please, but resembled the resident Stepford Band in the way they performed.
Richard sings in tune but with no character in his voice, and the songs are trite and repetitive, lacking wit, emotion or passion. The guitar players delivered their narcoleptic chords while taking two somnolent steps forward, two steps back.
They played all the hits that have long pleased their fans in the U.K., Australia and Europe but almost never in the United States, and the sold out auditorium was filled with glad smiling people.
It's odd that the crowd at the Led Zeppelin reunion looked pretty much the same, all white hair and wrinkly, but were so very, very change.

Sir Cliff Richard birthday thanks fans, CONGRATULATIONS

2009-10-15T07:37:00.000-07:00

Sir Cliff Richard celebrated birthday at Sheffield Arena last night with a little help from The Star. We made a alone cake featuring edible montage of photos of him through his career. Lucky lifelong fans Angela Childs, 55, and husband Michael, 69, of Selly Oak Road, Jordanthorpe, won our prize to present it on behalf of all readers.And 69 year old Cliff was thrilled to make history as the first person to celebrate in the venue's new purpose built 150 seat SIS Arena Club restaurant and events room, where the cake was handed over. Cliff Richard, Sheffield Arena - REVIEW AND PICTURESAhead of last night's show, he thanked all their fans for 50 years of support: "Thank you for being so loyal for all these years. I can't live without you. And I hope I never have to."Thank you for all your birthday wishes and God bless you all."Housewife Angela and retired pipe fitter Michael handed Cliff a singing birthday card, featuring a version of Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday. In typical style Cliff joined in. Michael fought back tears of joy as he said: "We've always been fans and rock and roll has been my life. I can't believe we've met Cliff."Sir Cliff also gave the new SIS Arena Club his approval: "I've been in the main Arena before but I can't remember what it was like back here it's very good."Sponsored, designed, built and fitted by Sheffield building interiors company, SIS, the new venue replaces a former temporary marquee area, catering for themed pre show meals. Now with an extra 50 seats, a new air climate control and integrated sound system, it is available for private functions.Arena Commercial Manager Gillian Stainrod said: "We're honoured to have been able to welcome Sir Cliff. He's such a gentleman and a music story."

Cliff Richard and the Shadows

2009-10-10T14:14:00.000-07:00

Cliff Richard and the Shadows, after 50 years of on off partnership they have reunited for one final hurrah in celebration of their golden anniversary, Glasgow in cluding two dates. While they could never hope to refootage the hunger and impact of their 1950s avatar, a bunch of silver they made a tight sound haired rock 'n' rollers. Sir Cliff, the showbiz trouper in his shocking pink jacket, was in fine expressive voice. The two hour plus set was divided between vintage rock 'n' roll and wholesome bobbysoxer pop, such as Lucky Lips and Livin' Doll, the latter introduced by Cliff with a speech deriding the short termism of modern pop vehicles such as The X Factor.During one dreamy interlude, the sight of Cliff, now in a pristine white suit, was too much for one fan, who shouted "I Love You". But that was a rare hot-under-the-collar moment in a cosy nostalgia trip culminating in Summer Holiday, the prophetic Bachelor Boy, Move It and a joyful Young Ones.

Sir Cliff Richard and The Shadows say goodbye at Echo Arena

2009-10-08T14:33:00.000-07:00

THERE’S nothing like a final, last-to-chance-to-see, farewell tour and The Shadows enjoyed the first one so much a few years ago they decided to do it all over again.
But this time they had Sir Cliff along with them and after all, saying goodbye is never easy and if you’ve had a career as long as theirs it’s bound to take a little while to get round everyone.
A sold out ECHO Arena the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen there proved that the demand is still there for two acts who are old enough to be grandfathers to most of the acts recenttly in the charts.

Cliff and the shadows are back after 20 years

2009-10-06T10:54:00.000-07:00

UNTIL last month, in 20 years they hadn’t performed together, but when Cliff Richard and The Cardiff tonight shadoes recevie, it’s sure to be a night to remember, writes Lydia Whitfield.
Fifty years on from when they first recorded and performed, this reunion and final tour lasts four months and takes them to Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Grandparents their original fans, but they will be sure to be going wild in the aisles when the band takes to the stage at the CIA tonight.
Cliff remains the only UK artist to have reached No 1 with a single in five consecutive decades.
And his reunion with the band Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett promises to be a suitably impressive send off tour. Fellow original Shadow, Jet Harris, left the group in 1962 after a row and now lives on the Isle of Wight, but is not joining the tour.
They are still surprised that half a century ago, rock bible, the New Musical Express, criticised Cliff for his ‘violent hip swinging exhibitionism’ under a headline asking ‘Is this new boy singer too sexy for Britain?’
And Manchester’s Chief Constable drafted in extra police for a Cliff gig ‘because we all know the trouble that this wild young man can incite’.
“The tour is going rather brilliantly,” says Cliff, who is entering his 70th year he will be 69 on October 14.
“I wasn’t actually worried about it as we’ve been around a long time. These guys wrote most of the stuff, so they know it and I’ve been singing it since the day I was born. So I feel confident and quite rightly it’s turned out how I expected. It’s not easy, but it’s been good.”
Cliff and The Shadows dominated British pop in the late ’50s and early ’60s, enjoying solo and joint success, and starred together in feelgood flicks ‘Summer Holiday’ and ‘The Young Ones’.
In 1959, The Shadows (then still going by their original name, The Drifters) landed an EMI recording contract of their own, and throughout the ’70s and ’80s toured regularly, enjoying Top 10 successes, and often competing with Cliff for the No 1 spot.
Between them they achieved no less than 19 No 1 hits, including; ‘Living Doll’, ‘It’s All In The Game’, ‘Travellin’ Light’, ‘Bachelor Boy’ and ‘Apache’.
They were taken aback at how 250,000 tickets for this Reunited tour sold out immediately and their new album Reunited leapt into the Top 10 within a week of release.
Known as the Peter Pan of Pop since rocketing up the charts aged 17, baby faced Cliff experimented with Botox when he hit 60, but wasn’t keen on the way his eyebrows drooped.
He isn’t worried that many of their lyrics are about being young, but for the tour has changed the lyric of A Girl Like You, to ‘a girl like you, a guy like me’ instead of ‘Boy like me’.
But he says, “I don’t worry about it at all. The Young Ones, for instance, is a state of mind.”
Cliff Richard and The Shadows perform at the CIA tonight and on Tuesday, October 20. All tickets are sold out. Ring 029 2022 4488 for returns

GEEKY DAVE AND CLIFF RICHARD TV'S

2009-10-03T08:50:00.000-07:00

David Cameron faces embarrassment during the Tory audience as he is portrayed on TV as a geeky cross between Cliff Richard and David Brent.
More 4's When Boris Met Dave is to be shown on Wednesday, the same day the Conservative leader is due to deliver his key speech. It documents the time he was at Oxford with London Mayor Boris Johnson and both were in the notorious Bullingdon Club.
A tennisobsessed it also show nerd desperately trying, and failing, to be cool.

Doing it by rote, Cliff Richard returns

2009-09-30T11:05:00.000-07:00

LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) – It seemed like a good idea to catch Britain's evergreen pop star Cliff Richard as he kicked off his big 50th anniversary reunion tour with his original band the Shadows, who went separate ways 20 years ago. But as Simone Signoret famously said, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
I was a kid in England when Richard was among the crop of embarrassing British singers trying their best to emulate Elvis, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and the rest. With names like Billy Fury, Marty Wilde and Vince Eager, they gyrated onto the BBC with lame cover versions of U.S. hits and rinky-dink originals from London's fiercely anti rock Tin Pan Alley.
Richard and the Shadows at least wrote their own material, but hearing it all repeated with soulless efficiency in their O2 Arena concert Monday brought back those dog days when Elvis looked so far away and the Beatles, Kinks and Stones hadn't arrived yet.
Extremely well preserved physically, Richard and the two leading Shadows, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, looked immaculate in their polished attire and did their unctuous best to please, but resembled the resident Stepford Band in the way they performed.
Richard sings in tune but with no character in his voice, and the songs are trite and repetitive, lacking wit, emotion or passion. The guitar players delivered their narcoleptic chords while taking two somnolent steps forward, two steps back.
They played all the hits that have long pleased their fans in the U.K., Australia and Europe but almost never in the United States, and the sold out auditorium was filled with glad smiling people.
It's odd that the crowd at the Led Zeppelin reunion looked pretty much the same, all white hair and wrinkly, but were so very, very change.

The Shadows at the 02 arena and Cliff Richard

2009-09-26T05:30:00.000-07:00

No one goes to a Cliff Richard show expecting to be confronted by hint of mortality. And yet there was no mistaking the subtext of the posters dotted around the 02 arena that announced the 68 year old singer’s reunion tour with The Shadows. “Reunited for the very last time!” they trumpeted.
Speaking in a current interview, Sir Cliff ventured that “all we have to do now is try and stay alive”. He was referring to the possibility of future reunions with his old backing band although at times during this three hour gig, you felt it would be no mean feat if they made it to the intermission.
But the audience gave more cause for concern. “Please sit down you’ll only get tired,” implored Sir Cliff, as the opening chords of We Say Yeah prompted several hundred fans to their feet.
Exciting? Well, this being a concert by Cliff Richard and not, say, Metallica, you adjusted your definitions of such words accordingly.
The “violent hip swinging exhibitionism” against which the New Musical Express once rail has been replaced by a gaudy fuschia jacket and, on Do You Want To Dance?, outbreaks of random leg-wobbling. For all of that, however, there were brief moments Dynamite, the nocturnal tomcat rattle of Move It – where the God-fearing, abstemious star momentarily took leave of himself and succumbed to the earthier impulses that, presumably, made him want to be a pop idol in the first place.
On High Class Baby he was almost believable rejecting the advances of the song’s posh protagonist in favour of rock’n’roll. Almost, but not quite.
However much he enjoyed the opporitunity to prove that he could cut it as a rock’n’roll singer, Sir Cliff’s soft vanilla tones seemed more suited to bucolic postwar pop postcards such as Summer Holiday and Living Doll.
Judging from the gusto with which the throng sang along, it was this Cliff Richard that most of his fans had come to see, blithely synching with Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch on their trademark triangular dance.
While singer and band were on stage together, the bonhomie was unmistakable. However, for the brief period which saw The Shadows fire off a mixture of their own hits and a brace of lesser-known album tracks, they sounded like a band with a point to prove.
FBI and Greatful Land, in particular, evinced a space-age modernity that defied the passing of the years. At a stroke, you understood why they inspired guitarists such as Jimmy Page and Brian May to learn their instruments in the first place.
For most of those present, scholarly admiration of The Shadows’ collective chops couldn’t have been further from the point. This was an altogether more celebratory occasion. Indeed, the ease with which these old chums occupied the same stage made you wonder why they had allowed 24 years to pass since their last tour together.
Without a hint of irony, an encore of The Young Ones saw Sir Cliff trilling, “the best time is to sing while we’re young”. Should they leave it this long again, he’ll be 92. This may indeed be the last time, then but in a month that has just seen 92 year old Dame Vera Lynn scale the charts, who would bet against us reconvening here in 2022?

Sir Cliff Richard, Piers Morgan loses tennis match to veteran

2009-09-23T10:48:00.000-07:00

Spare a thought for TV's Piers Morgan. He was thrashed on the tennis court by 69 year old Sir Cliff Richard as they filmed for Saturday's ITV1 interview in Barbados.
Sir Cliff whispers: "I beat him. He turned to the camera and said he couldn't believe he'd just been beaten by someone 25 years older than him." Ouch.

RICHARD SHOCKED BY YOUNG FOLLOWING

2009-09-18T11:04:00.000-07:00

Veteran singer SIR CLIFF RICHARD is stunned when young people buy tickets for his live gigs he can't understand why they would need to look him perform.The Devil Woman singer has currently reunited with his pair The Shadows for a set of gigs, more than 40 years after they split. The 68 year old has enjoyed six decades of pop success, but he's shocked he's still attracting new audiences, because he doesn't think he's "hip" enough. Richard says, "Every now and then on a tour you'll see in amongst the crowd... and you'll see people, (aged) maybe 25 or 30. You can see that they're a younger element and how they would even know about us, I don't know, because, you know, radio is not too rock and roll frankly anymore... There seems to be a kind of ageism thing and we're not considered 'hip' or 'in' and so I don't know how those young folks could ever possibly want to even come."

Cliff Richard feted in ‘tír na n-óg’ at start of 50th anniversary tour

2009-09-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

LEGENDARY entertainer Cliff Richard, looking relaxed and willing to give an impromptu bar of a song, was feted in Killarney last night.
The 68-year-old, who has been rehearsing at the INEC, Killarney, for his 50th anniversary tour with his band The Shadows was accorded a civic reception by the local town council. Pencil slim, fit and relaxed, he said he was enjoying his first visit to the tourist haven. "I’ve been to Dublin many times and have visited Daniel O’Donnell up in Donegal and am surprised that I’ve never visited such a beautiful place as Killarney before," said a smiling Richard, dressed in denim jeans and casual striped jacket. Deputy mayor Michael Courtney struck an apt note when told the remarkably youthful 50s icon Killarney was sometimes known as "tir na n-óg", or land of eternal youth. Richard, who posed for photographs and signed autographs for councillors and anyone that approached him, also endeared himself to the local tidy towns committee and hard-pressed tourism industry. "We’ve been working hard at rehearsals, but I’ve been into the town a couple of times. It looked brilliant, like it had been swept every day," he remarked. Now living in Portugal, he and the band members – Brian Bennett, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch – are savouring one of their now infrequent reunions. The opening concert of the world tour will be in the INEC, on Saturday night. This will be followed by performances in Dublin, Belfast and several cities in Britain. They will then move to New Zealand, Australia and South Africa before finishing at the end of March. At the civic reception, Richard signed the Killarney distinguished visitors’ book. He was also presented with a tie emblazoned with the Killarney crest and a pen made of arbutus wood from the Killarney lakeshore.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Reunited

2009-09-13T08:08:00.000-07:00

In the recent hubbub over the Beatles, the reunion of Cliff and the Shadows may have been overlooked, contempt representing an even more venerable anniversary of 50 years since their first chart appearance.
It's a valedictory affair, the impending arena tour representing their last appearances together so these revisitings of their finest moments are the final studio recordings of an notable alliance, best captured in an exuberant "Do You Wanna Dance" and a rustic "Bachelor Boy". As you'd expect from rockers pushing 70, it's a sedate affair: there's no curled lip delinquency about "Move It", which has lost its youthful snarl but gained a verse in the intervening years. Hank Marvin's orderly picking, however, has lost none of its sparkle, recalling the work of James Burton which divine this most influential of guitarists. Coincidentally, Burton's old boss Ricky Nelson is the closest equivalence to Cliff's clean-cut charm on "Travelling Light" and "Living Doll", while less well-known songs such as "On the Beach" and "I Could Easily Fall" are (with hindsight) reminiscent of early Beatles album tracks, suggesting the Fab Four's subverter impact was built on similar foundations to their most imposing predecessors. Finally, though, it's a soft-centred souvenir.
Download this: 'Bachelor Boy', 'Do You Wanna Dance'

Cliff Richard: The Shadows sell out Perth gig

2009-09-04T03:02:00.000-07:00

There are plenty of passionate Cliff Richard fans in this town, with the musical legend's Burswood Dome concert alongside The Shadows sold out.
Fans have been starved of the chance to see the band live since 1961, resulting in unprecedented demand.
Today, a second concert was announced. The band will be playing again on Sunday February 7.
Legendary guitarist Hank Marvin, who plays in The Shadows, lives a mostly quiet beingness in East Perth, but will certainly bust out some hot tunes during the tour.
It is 50 years since Cliff Richard and The Shadows got together. This Australian tour, billed as their Final Reunion, will bring them back to Oz for the first time since 1961.
Promoter Paul Dainty said there had been "unprecedented need for tickets for this tour. Cliff Richard and the Shadows have not been to Australia since 1961 so it's been a long wait to look this legendary band".
Tickets for the Sunday February 7 show go on sale on September 17, from midday.

Cliff Richard Show Announced

2009-08-27T12:15:00.000-07:00

Second Auckland Cliff Richard Show Announced.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows Auckland show at Vector Arena have sold out and a second Auckland show has been announced on Wednesday 24 February 2010. This second Auckland show takes the total number of New Zealand shows in the tour to five.
Tickets for this second Auckland show will be on sale Thursday 10 September through Ticketmaster.
Australian promoter Paul Dainty said: “We have knowledgeable unprecedented demand for tickets for this tour. Cliff Richard and the Shadows have not been to New Zealand since 1961 so it’s been a big wait to watch this legendary band and we envision tickets for the second Auckland show to sell quickly as well.”

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The 'Saga holiday couple,' spotted in Marbella to Cliff Richard and Cilla Black

2009-08-22T02:54:00.000-07:00

Barely two months after I reported that the group had been looking at acreages together in Miami, they have been spotted in Marbella. They were dining at Polo House, a club in Marbella which is managed over by James Hewitt, the bygone lover of the late Diana, Princess of Wales."Cilla and Cliff looked like a pair on a Saga holiday," whispers my man in the Ray Bans. "Cilla has a place here and Cliff was staying with her.
"They appeared together and left together. They invited James to dine with them and seemed to have a great time. The talk was mainly about wine and it ended up with Cliff saying that he would send James some bottles from his vineyard in Portugal."Cilla has in the past been linked to John Madejski, the Reading Football Club chairman, but she has affected herself uninterested in remarrying after Bobby Willis, her beloved husband and agent, died of lung cancer in 1999. Still, one wonders: the abrupt number of sightings of her with Sir Cliff makes it hard not to.In July the pair were to be found sitting together in animated conversation in the Royal Box at Wimbledon. On Barbados, where they both own villas, the islanders have accustomed become to seeing them out and about together.At a lunch in honour of the "Bachelor Boy" at the Dorchester last year, Cilla said that she had accomplished to get under Sir Cliff's blue duvet.She had explained that she had been appointed to "outdo" a friend of hers who had been photographed in his bath. Sir Cliff was not in either the bath or the bed.

Rock of Ages:Cliff Richard and Drifters Living Doll 1959

2009-08-15T09:43:00.000-07:00

BEFORE they became The Shadows, Cliff Richard’s backing band were known as The Drifters.And it was under this name that they recorded one of the Peter Pan of pop’s best-loved hits.Living Doll was penned by Oliver! author Lionel Bart, who won a coveted Ivor Novello award for the number.Cliff and The Drifters (they were at last forced to change their name to avoid confusion with the American group of the same name) had already had chart accomplishment with songs like Move It but Living Doll was to garner them their first number one aperture, a position they held for six weeks in the summer of 1959, selling a million records in the expension.It was also the teenage Cliff’s first US hit, reaching number 30 in the Billboard charts.Of course, 1959 wasn’t the last time Living Doll and Cliff Richard were to top the charts.The singer, together with Hank Marvin, paired up with The Young Ones in 1986 to record a new version of the track for Comic Relief, and it nextRock spent another three weeks at number one.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows upcoming underneath

2009-08-01T15:35:00.000-07:00

One more historical rock outfit is skull to Perth, with the announcement that Cliff Richard and The Shadows will perform the Burs wood Dome on February 6.
Tickets to see The Final Reunion - Together Again show, go on sale August 14.
Fifty years after Richard first got together with The Shadows; they are touching the road again, with shows in all major Australian cities planned. They began the tour in Perth.

The tour will be the first Australian tour the band has done since 1961.

In their hey day, the 50s and 60s, Richard and The Shadows got 19 number one hit songs including It's All in the Game, Bachelor Boy and Wonderful Land.
But in 1968 they parted ways, with Richard going solo and getting a enormous number of top 10 and 20 hits.

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Early months of Cliff Richard

2009-07-16T13:28:00.000-07:00

Cliff spent the early months of the year in Barbados, before moving Brazil in early March to visit Tearfund projects. He was accompanied by Penny Junor, gathering more material for the new book, plus a camera crew from the BBC's Songs of Praise

UK tour in September

2009-04-11T02:36:00.000-07:00

Cliff Richard's protracted chart success undermines radio stations' claims that he does not enjoy the support of their target audiences. Cliff believes he is 'the most radical rock star there has ever been'. Richard's premise is that his decision not to adopt the 'sex, drugs and alcohol' image expected of rock stars, then and now, was the truly avant-garde choice.

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BBC's secret war with the pirates

2009-03-15T22:35:00.000-07:00

But the fear that the arrival of offshore pirate radio stations drove into the broadcasting establishment has only now become clear...

Measures included lobbying acts such as The Beatles, Cliff Richard and Ken Dodd to ban their records from being played by the stations and blacklisting pirate DJs such as Tony Blackburn and Simon Dee. The BBC banned its own presenters from broadcasting any reference to Radio Caroline, the most popular of the pirates, and suppressed audience research on the stations’ popularity. Bosses also put pressure on the Conservative Party not to support the pirates.

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Publish Date: 21 February

Cliff Richard - Carrie Lyrics

2008-12-11T07:27:00.000-08:00

Sorry to disturb you,
But i was in the neighbourhood,
About a friend i've her picture,
Could you take a look?

Oh i appriciate you're busy,
And time is not your own,
Yeah maybe it would be better,
If i telephoned.

Chorus:
Carrie doesn't live here anymore,
Carrie used to room on the second floor,
Sorry that she left no forwarding address,
That was known to me.
Carrie doesn't live here anymore,
You could always ask at the corner store,
Carrie had a date with her own kind of fate,
It's plain to see.

Another missing person,
One of many we assume,
The young wear their freedom,
Like cheap perfume.
(it's useless information),
Returning my call,
(to help the situation),
They've nothing at all,
You're just another message,
On a pay phone wall,

Chorus:
Carrie doesn't live here anymore,
Carrie used to room on the second floor,
Sorry that she left no forwarding address,
That was known to me.

Chorus repeated.

Cliff Richard - Christmas Events

2008-12-11T07:23:00.000-08:00

Cliff Richard is famous for the Christmas days. The event of Christmas gets really enjoyable if we pass this great time with Cliff Richard because he has done the specialty with Christmas songs.
For his millions of viewers, Christmas would not be Christmas without Sir Cliff Richard. Fifty years after his career began there is still no sign of the singer altering his tune.
Sir Richard is tipped to reach the number one spot on the British Christmas DVD chart, following the release of his Time Machine Tour.
And in even more good news for fans, next week Sir Richard will be back on stage with the Shadows for the first time in two decades.
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Cliff Richard - Latest News

2008-12-11T07:05:00.000-08:00

Cliff Richard and the Shadows are come together for the final time, 20 years after they last played together. They conquered the British popular music scene in the late 50's and early 60's, enjoying solo and joint success, accomplishing between them no less than 19 number one hits, including: 'Living Doll', 'It's All In The Game', 'Travellin' Light', 'Bachelor Boy'. 'Wonderful Land' and 'Apache'. Don't miss Cliff and The Shadows as they join forces again for this unique and exciting tour!

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2008-12-11T06:50:00.000-08:00

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Cliff Richard & The Shadows UK tour

2008-12-11T06:46:00.000-08:00

A UK tour by Cliff Richard and The Shadows has been announced, with tickets on sale Friday 28th November. The tour consists of concerts at the following towns and cities:
London O2 Arena - September 25th & 26th
Nottingham Arena - September 30th
Birmingham NIA - October 3rd & 4th
Cardiff Arena - October 6th
Liverpool Echo Arena - October 7th
Glasgow SECC - October 9th
Newcastle Arena - October 12th
Sheffield Arena - October 14th
Manchester MEN Arena - October 17th

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Cliff Richard Discography

2008-12-11T06:37:00.000-08:00

Xanadu
Xanadu: Magical Music Edition
30 Years Of Hits
Cliff Richard Collection
Healing Love (Songs Of Inpiration)
Cliff Richard - Cliff Richard Live
Cliff Richard - In The Beginning
On The Continent

Cliff Richards Life

2008-12-11T06:35:00.000-08:00

Richard is a lifelong bachelor. He has said that he careful marriage to the dancer Jackie Irving or to tennis star Sue Barker. Richard currently lives with a former Roman Catholic priest, John McElynn, whom he met in 2001 while doing charity work in the United States. He has been shown as Cliff's property manager and looks after his houses while Cliff is away. This friendship has added to long-standing rumours that Richard is gay, a claim that he denied in 1996. Describing McElynn as a close friend and companion, Richard has said: "I am sick to death of the media’s speculation about it... Asserting that society no longer limits loving relationships to heterosexual couples, he has called on the Church of England to "accept those of other sexualities into the one and only religion".

Cliff Richard Awards

2008-12-11T06:15:00.001-08:00

* 1977 - Best British male solo artist during the past 25 years
* 1982 - Best British male solo artist
* 1989 - Outstanding contribution to music

Clliff Richard Songs List 2000-2008

2008-12-11T03:13:00.000-08:00

Love That Knows No End
Indian Sun
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World
Right Here Waiting
What's Love Got To Do With It?
Let Me Be The One
And I Love Her
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
Do You Wonder
You've Got A Friend
Moon River
This Love You Will Never Forget
Like Strangers
When You Walk In The Room
Let's Go) Where There Are Horses
From A Distance (Live And Kicking Tour April/May 2004)
How Many Sleeps
Lucky Lips (World Youth Day - August, 2005)
Yesterday Once More When I Need You
When I Need You
Look Up Look Down
Thank You For A Lifetime
Golden

Cliff Richard Famous Christmas Songs

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Cliff Richard has expected for the Christmas number one single on several occasions, sometimes successfully. His first Christmas number one (on some charts) was in 1960, but that single, "I Love You," was not a yuletide-themed song.

In later years, Richard often launched songs with a Christmas or other religious theme:

* 1969: "With the Eyes of a Child" (#20)
* 1982: "Little Town" (#12)
* 1988: "Mistletoe and Wine" (#1)
* 1989: "Whenever God Shines His Light" (duet with Van Morrison, #20)
* 1990: "Saviour's Day" (#1)
* 1991: "We Should Be Together" (#10)
* 1999: "The Millennium Prayer" (#2)
* 2003: "Santa's List" (#5)
* 2006: "21st Century Christmas" (#2)

Cliff Richard Achievements

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* Cliff Richard has got fourteen No.1 singles in the UK.
* As an artist, Cliff Richard has made the most top 10 hits on the UK singles charts (70), the most top 20 hits (97) and the most top 40 hits (125). (Double A-sides count as two hits.
* Based exclusively on data used to accumulate the Official UK Singles Charts, Richard has sold more singles in the UK than any other take action, with sales more than twenty million copies. fascinatingly enough, he has scored only one million-selling single.
* Cliff Richard has had top ten hits in each of the last six decades.
* Cliff Richard is the only act in the UK to score a No.1 single in each of the first five decades since the inception of the UK Singles chart in 1952. His chart peak in the 2000s is No.2. The following list shows the number of chart toppers Richard has accomplished in each decade.
o 1950s - 2: "Living Doll", "Travellin' Light"
o 1960s - 7: "Please Don't Tease", "I Love You", "The Young Ones", "The Next Time / Bachelor Boy", "Summer Holiday", "The Minute You're Gone", "Congratulations"
o 1970s - 1: "We Don't Talk Anymore"
o 1980s - 2: "Living Doll", "Mistletoe and Wine"
o 1990s - 2: "Saviour's Day", "Millennium Prayer"

The acts with the most aggregate time spent on the British record charts: Current rankings (days):

1. Elvis Presley (2,574)
2. Cliff Richard (1,983)
3. Queen (1,755)
4. The Beatles (1,749)
5. Madonna (1,660)
6. Elton John (1,626)

Cliff Richard- Gallery

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Cliff Richard - Inntroduction

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Born Harry Roger Webb, October 14, 1940, in Lucknow, India. Addresses: Record company--EMI Records, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019 and then move to, Hertfordshire in England, 1948; sang with local "skiffle" groups as teenager in Hertfordshire, England; became part of the Quintones vocal group, 1957; joined Dave Teague Skiffle Group; worked as credit control clerk in a television factory; formed Drifters, 1958; performed at London's 21's coffee bar; He made Top Ten for first time in U.S. with "Devil Woman," 1976; recorded duets with Olivia Newton-John, Phil Everly, Sarah Brightman, Elton John, and Van Morrison, 1980-87; appeared in London stage musical Time, 1985.

Cliff Richard managed to remain viable as a pop act for an incredible three decades, in an era when most singers fade from the scene in just a few years. As acknowledged in New Statesman and Society, he is "undoubtedly the most important pop symbol modern British culture has produced."