Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry
Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940) is an English singer, actor and businessman.
With his backing band The Shadows, Richard dominated
the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and
during the The Beatles' first year in the
charts. A conversion to Christianity and subsequent softening
of his music led to his having more of a pop than rock
image. Although never able to achieve the same impact in the United
States as in Britain (in spite of several chart singles there), Richard
has remained a popular music, film, and television personality in the
UK; he also retains a following in several other countries.
During the six decades in which he has been active, Cliff
Richard has charted many hit singles, and holds the record (along with Elvis
Presley) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its
active decades (1950s–2000s).
According to his website, he has sold over 250 million records.
On the British charts, Richard has had over 90 singles,
albums
and EPs
make the top 20, more than any other artist.
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Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 1940—1958:
Childhood
- 1.2 1958—1963:
Success and stardom
- 1.3 1964—1975:
Changing circumstances
- 1.4 1976—1994:
Comeback
- 1.5 1995—
Sir Cliff
- 1.6 "The
most radical rock star ever"
- 2 Works
- 2.1 Chart
accomplishments
- 2.2 Christmas
songs
- 3 Discography
- 4 Bibliography
- 5 Awards
- 6 Trivia
- 7 References
- 8 See
also
- 9 External
links
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Biography
1940—1958: Childhood
Cliff Richard was born at the King George Hospital, Victoria
Street, Lucknow,
India in
1940 to parents Rodger and Dorothy (born Dazely) Webb. A year later his
family moved to Calcutta.
In 1947, following Indian independence, the family
moved to Britain.
The Webbs moved from comparative wealth in India (with
servants) to a much lower standard of living in England. For three
years the Webbs did not have their own home and stayed with relatives.
In 1951, they were awarded a council house in the town of Cheshunt.
Richard has recalled his father having to make furniture from packing
cases.
1958—1963: Success and stardom
Dressed For The Occasion, Cliff Richard
Beginning as a member of an obscure skiffle group,
Harry Webb soon became the lead singer of the rock
and roll group the Drifters (not to be confused with the
American group of the same name). Before their first large scale
appearance, at the Regal Ballroom in Ripley in 1958, they adopted the
name "Cliff Richard and the Drifters". The four members of the band
were Webb, Ian "Sammy"
Samwell on guitar, Terry Smart on drums and Norman Mitham on guitar.
None of the other three played with the later and better known Shadows,
although several would write songs for Richard's later career.
In the summer of 1958 Richard obtained a recording contract
with EMI's
Columbia label for himself only, leaving the band behind. He remained
with EMI until signing with Decca in 2004. Richard recorded his
first single on 24
July 1958
with the (pre-Marvin/Welch) Drifters. However, producer Norrie
Paramor had little faith in the band and brought in two
experienced session men, Ernie Shear and Frank Clarke, to provide
backing on lead guitar and bass.
For his debut session, Paramor provided Richard with a song
called "Schoolboy Crush", a cover of an American record by Bobby
Helms. Richard was permitted to record one of his own songs for the B-side; this was "Move It",
written by the Drifters' Samwell (famously on a number "715" Green Line
Bus on the way to Cliff's house for a rehearsal). John
Lennon was once quoted as saying that "Move It" was the
first English rock record.
There are a number of stories about why the A-side song was
replaced by the intended B-side. One is that Norrie Paramor's young
daughter raved about the B-side and not the A-side. Another possible
reason for the flip was that influential TV
producer Jack
Good, who used the act for his TV show Oh
Boy!, wanted the only song on his show to be
"Move It".
In any event, the single was flipped and went to #2 on the UK
charts. Music critics Roy Carr and Tony Tyler would later write that it
was the first genuine British rock classic (to be followed by Johnny Kidd and the
Pirates's "Shakin' All Over") before the Beatles' hit "I Saw Her Standing There".
In the early days, Cliff Richard was marketed as the British
equivalent to Elvis Presley. As did previous British rockers such as Marty
Wilde, Richard adopted a Presley-like dress and hairstyle. In
performance he struck a pose of rock attitude, rarely smiling or
looking directly at the audience or camera. His late 1958 and early
1959 follow-up singles, "High Class Baby", Lionel
Bart's "Living Doll" were followed by "Mean Streak" which
carried a rocker's sense of speed and passion. It was on "Living Doll"
that the Drifters began to back Richard on record. By that time the
band's lineup had changed with the arrival of Jet
Harris, Tony Meehan, Hank
Marvin, and Bruce Welch. The group was
obliged to change its name to "The Shadows" after legal complications
arose with the U.S. Drifters.
The Shadows were not a typical backing group. They would
become contractually separate entities from Richard, and the group
would not receive any performer royalties for the records they made
backing the singer. In 1959, The Shadows (then still known as the
Drifters) landed an EMI recording contract of their own, for
independent recordings without Richard. That year, they released three
singles, two of which featured double-sided vocals and one of which had
instrumental A and B sides. In 1960, they recorded and released "Apache",
which augured the birth of British rock guitar instrumental music.
Hitting the top of the charts in more than one country, the single set
the Shadows on a path of their own. They thereafter had several major
hits of their own, including five UK #1s. The band also continued to
appear and record with Richard and wrote many of his hits. On more than
one occasion, a Shadows instrumental replaced a Richard song atop the
British charts.
Richard's fifth single "Living Doll" triggered a change of
focus with a softer, more relaxed, sound. Subsequent hits, the #1s
"Travelling Light" and "I Love You" and also "A Voice in The
Wilderness" and "Theme for a Dream" cemented Richard's status as a
mainstream pop entertainer (along with a few contemporaries such as Adam
Faith and Billy Fury). Throughout the
early sixties his hits were consistently in the top five.
Typically, The Shadows closed the first half of the show
with a 30-minute set of their own, and then backed Richard on his
show-closing 45-minute stint. Tony Meehan and Jet Harris eventually
left the group, in 1961 and 1962 respectively, and later had their own
chart successes. The Shadows added a few more bass players, and also
took on Brian Bennett on drums.
In the early days, Cliff Richard sometimes recorded without
The Shadows, mainly to cater to other styles. Even after the Beatles
invasion he continued to achieve hits, although more often without the
Shadows but with an orchestra: a revival of "It's
All In The Game" and "Constantly". A session under the direction of Billy
Sherrill in Nashville
yielded two more top two hits: "The Minute You're Gone" and "Wind Me
Up" in 1965.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows were unable to parlay their UK
stardom into hit status in the United States. In 1960 they toured the
U.S. and were fairly well-received. However, lacklustre support and
distribution from the record company proved costly, and the chance was
lost. The band made appearances on The
Ed Sullivan Show, which was a crucial outlet
for the Beatles' success, but these performances did not really help
Cliff and the Shadows. As a result, Cliff Richard remained obscure in
America. In England, however, Cliff and the Shadows were key in calling
EMI's attention to the importance and strength of rock
n' roll music. It was due to their popularity that Parlophone
were looking for a "second" Cliff and the Shadows, eventually signing
the Beatles.
Cliff and The Shadows appeared in a number of films, most
notably in The Young Ones,
(the title song being his
biggest hit up
to "Mistletoe and Wine"); Summer
Holiday (which featured a slimmed-down Richard
with visible dancing skills), Wonderful
Life and Finders
Keepers. These movies created their own genre known as the
"Cliff Richard musical" and led to Cliff being named the number one
cinema box office attraction in Britain for both 1962 and 1963. The irreverent 1980s TV sitcom
The Young Ones
took its name from Richard's 1962 movie, and also made references to
the singer.
1964—1975: Changing circumstances
As with the other existing rock acts in Britain, Richard's
career was affected by the sudden advent of The
Beatles and the Mersey sound in 1963 and 1964. However,
his popularity was established enough to allow him to weather the storm
and continue to have hits in the charts throughout the 1960s, albeit
not at the level that he had enjoyed before. Nor did doors open to him
in the U.S. market; he was not part of the British
Invasion, and the American public had little awareness of him.
Another important aspect of Richard's life was his conversion
to Christianity
in 1964.
Standing up publicly as a Christian affected his career in several
ways. He believed that he should quit rock 'n roll, feeling he could no
longer be the rocker who had been called a "crude exhibitionist" and
"too sexy for TV" and a threat to parents' daughters. However, his
image had already become tamer due to his film roles and well-spoken
manners on radio and TV. Richard intended at first to 'reform his ways'
and become a teacher, but Christian friends advised him that he did not
need to abandon his career just because he had become a Christian. Soon
after, Cliff Richard re-emerged, performing with Christian groups and
recording some Christian material. He still recorded secular songs with
the Shadows, but he gave a lot of his time to Christian work. As time
progressed, Richard balanced his faith and work, which enabled him to
remain one of the most popular singers in Britain as well as one of its
best-known Christians. He was a leading figure in the Nationwide Festival of
Light of 1971, protesting against the commercial exploitation of sex
and violence in Britain, and advocating the teaching of Christ as the
key to recovering moral stability in the nation.
Cliff Richard's first straight acting role took place in the 1968 film Two a Penny, in which he played a young
man who gets involved in drug dealing while questioning his life
after his girlfriend changes her attitude. Also in 1968 he sang the
UK's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest "Congratulations"
by Phil Martin and Bill Coulter. It lost by just one point
to Spain's
La La
La. Nevertheless, "Congratulations" was a huge hit throughout Europe
and yet another #1 in April. In 1973 he sang the British entry Power to
All Our Friends. The song finished third, close behind Luxembourg's Tu
Te Reconnaîtras and Spain's Eres
tú. Richard also hosted the BBC's qualifying heat for the Eurovision Song Contest, "A
Song for Europe," in 1970, 1971 and 1972.
After the Shadows split in 1968, Cliff Richard recorded
without the band. He had already become accustomed to the Shadows'
absence, and was able to record in a variety of settings. Although many
of his earliest fans regretted that Cliff had tried out songs which
were not strictly in the rock 'n roll genre, most had got used to his
habit of recording rockier material with the Shadows, while producing
more middle-of-the-road material at other times. This versatility
extended Richard's career prospects.
During the 1970s,
Richard took part in television shows, such as It's Cliff, many
of which also starred Hank Marvin. These shows, for a time, branded
Cliff Richard as a television personality more than a recording artist.
In 1972, he made a short BBC television comedy film called The
Case with appearances from comedians and his first-ever duets with a
woman, Olivia Newton-John. In 1973 he starred in the
film Take Me High.
1976—1994: Comeback
In 1976 the decision was made to repackage Cliff Richard as a
"rock" artist. That year he produced the landmark album I'm Nearly
Famous, which included the successful
guitar-driven track Devil Woman
(Richard's first true hit in the United States) and the ballad Miss You Nights.
Richard's fans were excited about this revival of a performer who had
been a part of British rock from its early days. Many music names such
as Jimmy
Page, Eric Clapton, and Elton
John were seen sporting I'm Nearly Famous
badges, pleased that their boyhood idol was getting back into the
heavier rock in which he had begun his career.
Notwithstanding this, Richard continued to release
gospel-tinged albums in parallel with his rock and pop albums. For
example, Small Corners
from 1978 contained the singles Yes He Lives.
Despite his 1976 comeback, this single failed to chart in the United
Kingdom. In 1980, the singer officially changed his name by deed poll
from Harry Webb to Cliff Richard.
In 1979, Richard teamed up with the producer Alan
Tarney for the pop hit single We
Don't Talk Anymore, which hit #1 in the UK, and
#7 in the U.S. The song was quickly added onto the end of his latest
album Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile.
It was his first time at the top of the UK singles chart in over ten
years, and the song would become his biggest-selling single ever. At
long last he had some extended success in the United States: following
the #6 placement for Devil Woman in 1976, the
follow-ups We Don't Talk Anymore
and Dreaming
both reached the top ten. His 1980 duet Suddenly
with Olivia Newton-John was a Top 20 hit in America. Richard continued
with a string of top ten albums, including I'm No Hero, Wired For Sound,
Now You See Me, Now
You Don't, and, marking his 25th year in show
business, Silver. The
singles chart also saw his most consistent period of top twenty hits
since the mid 1960s. The year 1987 saw Richard record his Always
Guaranteed album, which became his best selling
album of all new material. It contained the two top ten hit singles, "My Pretty One" and "Some People". Richard concluded his
thirtieth year in music in spectacular chart style, reaching number one
on the British singles chart with "Mistletoe
and Wine", while simultaneously holding the number one positions on the
album and video charts with the compilation Private
Collection summing up his biggest hits from
1979-1988. "Mistletoe and Wine" was his biggest seller to that point.
In 1986, Richard teamed up with The Young Ones to
re-record his smash hit Living
Doll for the charity Comic
Relief. Along with the song, the recording contained comedy dialogue
between Richard and The Young Ones. The release went to #1. That same
year he opened in the West End as a rock
musician called upon to defend Earth in a trial set in the Andromeda
Galaxy in the multi-media Dave Clark
musical Time.
Further top ten albums included Stronger
in 1989, From a Distance
in 1990 and yet another number one with The Album
in 1993. The next few years saw Richard concentrate on bringing the
musical Heathcliff
to the stage. The production was a resounding success, but the time it
took seemed to take a toll on his reinvigorated chart status. Back in
the UK during the next years and throughout the 1980s, Richard remained
one of the best-known music artists in the country. In the space of a
few years he worked with Elton John, Mark
Knopfler, Julian Lennon, Freddie
Mercury, Stevie Wonder, Phil
Everly, Janet Jackson, Sheila
Walsh, and Van Morrison. Richard also
reunited with Olivia Newton-John. In 1989, he filled the Wembley Stadium for a few
nights with a spectacular titled "The Event". Meanwhile, the Shadows
later re-formed (and again split). They recorded on their own, but also
reunited with Richard in 1978, 1984, and 1989-90 for some concerts. On June 14, 2004 Cliff joined the
Shadows onstage at the London Palladium. The Shadows had
decided to re-form for one final tour of the UK, with this concert
heralded as their final ever concert as "Cliff and the Shadows."
1995— Sir Cliff
Cliff Richard was knighted on 25 October
1995. He was
the first rock star to be so honoured, ahead of Sir
Paul McCartney (1997) and Sir
Elton John (1998). In 1999, controversy arose regarding radio
stations refusing to play his records. EMI, Richard's label since 1958,
refused to release his latest single. Richard took his "Millennium
Prayer" to an independent label, Papillon, which released the charity
record (in aid of Children's Promise). The single went on to top the UK
chart for three weeks, his fourteenth #1, and the third highest-selling
single of his career. Richard's next album (2001) was a covers project,
Wanted, followed by another top ten album with Cliff
at Christmas. The holiday album contained both new and older
recordings, including the single "Santa's List", which reached #5 in
2003. Richard decamped to Nashville, Tennessee for his
next album project in 2004, employing a writer's conclave to give him
the pick of all new songs for the album Something's Goin' On.
Though the collection was critically well-received, it had
disappointing sales. Nevertheless it was yet another top ten album, and
produced three top fifteen singles: "Something's Goin' On", "I Cannot
Give You My Love", with Barry Gibb of the Bee
Gees, and the lively "What Car". However, Richard did not
hide his disappointment with the album's lacklustre sales, and it was
speculated that it might have been his last ever album of original
songs.
Sir Cliff Richard finished number 56 in the 2002 100
Greatest Britons list, sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public. Adored
especially by baby boomer women, many of whom camp out
for his concert tickets, he has become a fixture of the British
entertainment world. For a number of years, he would lead the Wimbledon Centre Court
crowd in singing during rain delays. The Ultimate Pop Star,
a Channel
4 programme broadcast in 2004, revealed that Cliff Richard had sold
more singles in the UK than any other music artist, ahead of the
Beatles in second place and Elvis Presley in third. Richard has become
joint owner of the Arora International Hotel in Manchester,
which opened in June 2004. He spends much of his time at his house in Barbados, and
has lent it to British Prime Minister Tony Blair at times.
Richard's most recent project is an album of duets, including
newly-recorded material with Brian May, Dionne
Warwick, Anne
Murray, Barry Gibb and Daniel O'Donnell, plus some
previously recorded duets with artists such as Phil
Everly, Elton John and Olivia Newton-John. Released to coincide with
the UK leg of his latest world tour, the album "Here and Now" includes
a number of lesser known, but fan-favourite songs including, My
Kinda Life, How Did She Get Here, Hey
Mr. Dream Maker, For Life, A
Matter Of Moments, When The Girl In Your Arms,
Every Face Tells A Story, Peace In Our Time
and the latest Christmas single 21st Century Christmas,
which debuted at #2 on the UK singles chart. Richard's mother, Dorothy
Webb, suffers from advanced Alzheimer's disease. In a
September 2006 interview with the Daily Mail,
he spoke about the difficulties he and his sisters had in dealing with
their mother's condition.
"The most radical rock star ever"
Cliff Richard openly laments the lack of commercial support
from radio stations and record labels. As noted in the recent BBC
Radio 2 documentary "Cliff - Take Another Look", he points out that
many documentaries charting the history of British music fail to even
mention him.
It is true that his protracted chart success invalidates radio
stations' claims that he does not enjoy public support (or, at least,
not from their target audience). Cliff claims 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.
Works
Chart accomplishments
- Cliff Richard has scored fourteen #1 singles in the UK,
more than any other artist other than Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
- Based solely on data used to compile the Official UK
Singles Charts, Cliff has sold more singles in the UK than any other
act, with sales exceeding twenty million copies. Interestingly enough,
he has scored only one million-selling single: "The Young Ones". This
does not reflect his total sales as the data used to compile the charts
in the early part of his career was only partial. Sales from his 1950s
singles would be significantly understated in this figure.
- Cliff has had top ten hits in each of the last six decades.
- Cliff is the only act in the UK to score a #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 #2. The following list
shows the number of chart toppers Cliff has achieved in each decade.
- 1950s - 2:
"Living Doll", "Travelling Light"
- 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"
- 1970s - 1: "We
Don't Talk Anymore"
- 1980s - 2:
"Living Doll", "Mistletoe & Wine"
- 1990s - 2:
"Saviour's Day", "The Millennium Prayer"
- 2000s - 0; his
closest was "21st Century Christmas / Move It" which made #2 in
December 2006.
The acts with the most aggregate time spent on the British
record charts: Current rankings (by weeks):
- Elvis Presley (2,574)
- Cliff Richard (1,983)
- Queen (1,755)
- The Beatles (1,749)
- Madonna (1,660)
- Elton John (1,626)
Christmas songs
Cliff Richard has aimed 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 released songs with a Christmas
or other religious theme:
- 1969:
"With the Eyes of a Child" (#20)
- 1972:
"Jesus" (#37)
- 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" (#1)
- 2003: "Santa's List" (#5)
- 2006: "21st Century Christmas" (#2)
He also featured on the 1989 Christmas number one by Band
Aid II, thus appearing at the top of the charts for three consecutive
Christmases.
Discography
See Cliff Richard discography.
Bibliography
- 1973: "The way I see it now", Hodder & Stoughton,
London.
- 1988: "Single-Minded" (Autobiography), Hodder &
Stoughton, London.
Awards
Brit Awards
- 1977 - Best British male solo artist during the past 25
years
- 1982 - Best British male solo artist
- 1989 - Outstanding contribution to music
Trivia
- Sir Cliff Richard has had no fewer than 25
records (all formats) reach number one in UK
music sales charts.
- Home for Richard is a mansion on St Georges
Hill Estate in Weybridge, Surrey, which he bought
in 1987 for £1.4 million.
- Richard owns several luxury vehicles, amongst
them a 1980 Rolls Royce and a 1989 Range
Rover. He also owns a 1990 Mercedes-Benz 500 SL.
- Richard owns three thoroughbred horses, named Mars,
Phobos, and Deimos,
after the Greek God of War and his sons.
- Richard has often remarked in interviews that
he remained slim after hearing a remark on the British Soap Coronation
Street made in the 1960s by Minnie
Caldwell about "that chubby Cliff Richard".
- British black metal band Cradle
of Filth recorded a cover of his song "Devil Woman" for the
special edition of their 2004 album Nymphetamine.
The song features notoriously satanic singer King
Diamond on backing vocals.
- Richard's "We Don't Talk Anymore" was one of
the first ten music videos played by MTV on the channel's launch day - August 1, 1981.
- In 1961 David Hockney painted a picture called
'Doll Boy'. The 24 year-old artist, then at the Royal College of Art in
London, was inspired so to do because he found the idol of the British
pop scene "very attractive, very sexy" as he did his delivery of the
song Living Doll. Hockney had many postcards and
photos he'd cut out of newspapers of Richard pinned up in his painting
cubicle at the college.
- Richard featured in an episode of 'Jim'll Fix
It' coming out of a small tent with a child and surprising the child's
mother.
- In an interview at the premier of Spamalot in
the West End Cliff Richard expressed
his liking for the comedy of Monty Python and The
Goon Show.
- Richard was mentioned a lot in the comedy
series The Young Ones owing to the character
'Rick' and his unhealthy infatuation with the singer. The four students
met their demise in the last episode when they boarded a double decker
bus (just like in the film Summer Holiday) and drove it over a
'cliff'.
- Richard produces wine in his property in the
Algarve, under the 'Vida Nova' brand.
In 2005 his
brand was awarded a bronze medal at the International Wine Challenge.
Upon tasting his own wine in a blind test on Gordon
Ramsay's The F-Word he
described it as "very harsh". Ramsay said to Richard, "You can tell me
to 'F off' now." Richard duly obliged. Sir Cliff owned property in the
Algarve prior to the 1975 'revolution' which he sold cheaply and later
said he regretted. He remains popular in Portugal.
- Richard's favourite Christmas song is The
Pogues' ribald classic "Fairytale of New York", as was
revealed in his countdown on UK music channel Magic, "Cliff's 50
Christmas Classics".
- Radio Ceylon made Cliff
Richard a household name in the Indian
sub-continent. Even people from Cliff's birthplace in Lucknow wrote in
requesting his songs.
- Cliff Richard was portrayed in the
Thunderbirds movie performing his song, Shooting Star.
- A fairground recently claimed that by playing
certain Cliff Richard songs, they successfully deterred troublemakers
from their premises.
Preceded by
Frankie Vaughan
Tower Of
Strength |
UK Christmas Number One
single
The
Next Time
1962 |
Succeeded by
The Beatles
I Wanna Hold Your Hand |
Preceded by
Pet Shop Boys
Always on My Mind |
UK Christmas Number One
single
Mistletoe and Wine
1988 |
Succeeded by
Band Aid II
Do They Know It's
Christmas |
Preceded by
Band Aid II
Do They Know It's
Christmas |
UK Christmas Number One
single
Saviour's Day
1990 |
Succeeded by
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody |
|
Selected Eurovision
winners/participants for Congratulations |
| Eurovision winners/participants that
participated |
ABBA | Brotherhood
of Man | Celine
Dion | Sertab Erener | France
Gall | Dana International | Johnny
Logan (twice) | Domenico Modugno | Mocedades | Nicole
| Olsen
Brothers | Elena Paparizou | Cliff Richard |
In the anarchic British comedy series from the
1980's The Young Ones, one of the central
characters, Rik, is totally enamoured of Cliff- describing him at one
point as "the complete and utter King of Rock'n'Roll". The series is
named after a Cliff Richard song and features the cast singing the song
as its theme. The Young Ones cast also joined up with Cliff to record a
version of Living Doll.
References
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Record sales from CliffRichard.org
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Top
Hits from EveryHit
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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/popup/j18_474cliffrichard.htm
UK National Archives]
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ContactMusic.com
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Daily Mail
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BBC
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BBC
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Vida Nova Wines
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WineInt.com
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Crooning Cliff disperses yobs (METRO.co.uk)
See also
- Best selling
music artists - World's top-selling music artists chart.
External links