Cliff Richard fans at Metro Radio Arena - live video

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 talks new album

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

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.”

Cliff Richard in Blackheath concert

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

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.

Cliff Richard ordered to knock down conservatory

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.

Sir Cliff Richard birthday thanks fans, CONGRATULATIONS

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."

Sir Cliff Richard and The Shadows say goodbye at Echo Arena

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

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

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

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.

RICHARD SHOCKED BY YOUNG FOLLOWING

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

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: The Shadows sell out Perth gig

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.

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

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.