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

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.

Doing it by rote, Cliff Richard returns

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.

Cliff and the shadows are back after 20 years

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

Doing it by rote, Cliff Richard returns

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.