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.

Cliff Richard Show Announced

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

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

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

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

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

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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