Cliff Richard To Host Alzheimer's Show

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.