Name Cliff Richard's first five number one hits in the correct order
"one singles on the UK Singles Chart, including the unique distinction of having two versions of the same song hitting number-one on the singles chart. ""Living Doll"" first topped the charts in 1959, then again 26 years later in a re-recording for the Comic Relief charity with the cast of ""The Young Ones (TV series)"". Richard also has the distinction of being the only artist to have achieved UK number-one singles in five consecutive decades, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Richard has also achieved 7 number one albums on the UK Albums Chart in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and"
"Cliff's Hit Album Cliff's Hit Album is Cliff Richard's first compilation album and ninth album overall. It was released in July 1963 and reached number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. The album contains 14 songs from his singles released between August 1958 and May 1962. It includes all Richard's singles in this period that made the top 3 of the UK Singles Chart. In Canada, the album was retitled ""Living Doll"" and was released in September 1963 and spent three weeks at number 1 on ""Chum's Album Index"" during October and eight weeks in the top 5 altogether. ""Cliff's"
"The Hit List (Cliff Richard album) The Hit List, released with the subtitle The Best of 35 Years, is a compilation album by English singer Cliff Richard. Released in October 1994, the album reached number 3 in the UK Albums Chart and was certified platinum in the UK. The album celebrates Richard's 35th anniversary in the music industry and compiled all of Richard's top 5 UK hit singles, which coincidentally totalled 35 at the time. Two bonus tracks were also chosen by Richard for the album - ""Miss You Nights"", at the request of fans for a re-release, and ""Green"
"Cliff at Christmas Cliff at Christmas is the 2003 Christmas album of Cliff Richard, containing eight new songs and nine previously released songs including all of his previous hit Christmas-themed singles included. One new single was released from the album, entitled ""Santa's List"", which reached a peak position of #5 in the UK charts over the festive period. The album reached #9 in the UK Albums Chart and was certified platinum. In 2017 it was number 3 on the Official Top 20 biggest selling Christmas albums of the 21st century in the UK, having sold 408,000 copies. The album marked"
"hit. The album itself reached No. 3 over the Christmas period and was certified double platinum by the BPI. Following the success of the recent Christmas singles, Richard released his first Christmas album ""Together with Cliff Richard"" in 1991, however his bid for the UK Christmas No. 1 spot again with ""We Should Be Together"" was unsuccessful (making No. 10). 1992 saw ""I Still Believe in You"" (No. 7) released as his Christmas single, while 1993 saw Richard's first new music studio album for over three years released. Simply titled ""The Album"", it debuted at No.1 on the UK album"
"chart. ""Peace in Our Time"" (No. 8) was the second lead single, followed by ""Human Work of Art"" (No. 24) and ""Healing Love"" (No. 19) for Christmas. In 1994, the compilation ""The Hit List"" was released, meanwhile in the background, Richard was concentrating on bringing the musical ""Heathcliff"" to the stage. With Richard's succession of hit songs and albums from the late 1970s into the early 1980s, followed by another strong run in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a strong fan base had been reestablished and Richard remained one of the best-known music artists in the country. Over the"
"peaking at No.9 in the UK and becoming his first US Top 10. Cliff Richard's career had seen a downward slump in the 1970s compared to his success in the previous decade, culminating in his not hitting the chart at all in 1975 - the first year of his career not to do so. Bruce Welch set about finding new songs for Cliff and was to produce the album which would mark his comeback. The lead single on the album was ""Miss You Nights"" which came to be regarded by many fans as his best ever song. Although it was"
"#3. Cliff Richard scored the Christmas number one single with ""Saviour's Day"", his 13th number one, and his 100th top 40 hit. With this he became the only person to have a number one in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Merseyside composer John McCabe produced a flute concerto, written for James Galway and premièred by the London Symphony Orchestra who had commissioned it; it was not recorded until 1999. Another Lancashire composer, John Pickard, produced his best-known work ""The Flight of Icarus"". Simon Rattle became musical director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, of which he had"
"hit, giving the Stones their first number one in the US. In the UK, the song initially was played only on pirate radio stations, because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive. It later became the Rolling Stones' fourth number one in the United Kingdom. In 2004, ""Rolling Stone"" magazine placed ""(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"" in the second spot on its list of ""The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"". The song was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006. Richards wrote Satisfaction in his sleep and recorded a rough version of the"
"Cliff Richard (1965 album) Cliff Richard is a studio album by Cliff Richard, released by Columbia Records on LP in 1965 and available in both mono and stereo.. It is Richard's seventh studio album and thirteenth album overall. The album peaked at number 9 in the UK Albums Chart. In some regions outside the UK, ""Angel"" was lifted from the album to be a single. It reached number 6 in Australia and number 14 in Belgium. The album was first released in April 1965. The album was repackaged as a budget album in 1970 and re-titled ""All My Love"". It"
"to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single ""Move It"" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song; in the opinion of John Lennon of the Beatles, ""before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music"". Increased focus on his Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music. Over a career spanning 60 years, Richard has amassed many gold and platinum discs and awards, including two Ivor Novello Awards and three Brit Awards. More than 130 of his singles,"
"Little In Love"", ""Dreamin'"", and ""Suddenly""). In the UK meanwhile, ""Carrie"" reached No. 4 and ""Dreamin'"" peaked at No. 8. In a retrospective review of ""Carrie,"" AllMusic journalist Dave Thompson praised ""Carrie"" as being ""an enthrallingly atmospheric number. One of the most electrifying of all Cliff Richard's recordings."" In 1980, Richard officially changed his name, by deed poll, from Harry Rodger Webb to Cliff Richard. At the same time, he received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire from the Queen for services to music and charity. In 1981, the single ""Wired for Sound"" hit No. 4 in"
"went to number one on 29 December 1990, becoming that year's Christmas number one and replacing the previous week's UK number one, ""Ice Ice Baby"" by Vanilla Ice. A week later ""Saviour's Day"" dropped back down to number three, and spent only one more week in the top 40 at number twenty. The final charted spot in the top 100 was on 19 January 1991, when ""Saviour's Day"" was at number 53. The song was Richard's second solo Christmas number one in the UK, after ""Mistletoe and Wine"" in 1988. In 2005, ""Saviour's Day"" was one of two songs by"
"the US charts until August 1963: over the following twelve-month period he would make four appearances on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 with only one of these releases - Epic was now Richard's US label - becoming a Top 40 hit: ""It's All in the Game"". Except for a #99 appearance in 1968 with ""Congratulations"", Richard was subsequently absent from the Hot 100 until 1976 when he had his first (of three) US Top Ten hits with ""Devil Woman"" (#6). A version of ""When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart"" became the first chart record for"
"Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s"
"32 Minutes and 17 Seconds with Cliff Richard 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds with Cliff Richard is the fifth studio album by Cliff Richard (seventh album overall) and was released in September 1962. The album reached #3 on the UK Albums Chart. The album contains 14 songs, of blues and pop rock, six with the Shadows and eight with the Norrie Paramor Orchestra. One single from the album, ""It'll Be Me"" was released in August 1962 in the lead up to the album's release and reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart. In Canada, the album was released with the"
"the audience or camera. His late 1958 and early 1959 follow-up singles, ""High Class Baby"" and ""Livin' Lovin' Doll"", were followed by ""Mean Streak"", which carried a rocker's sense of speed and passion, and Lionel Bart's ""Living Doll"". It was on ""Living Doll"" that the Drifters began to back Richard on record. It was his fifth record and became his first No. 1 single. By that time, the group's line-up 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 with"
"by Cliff Richard on their only UK tour. Their second single, ""Forget Me Not,"" reached Number 12 in the US Billboard chart later in 1958. After two further low-ranking entries in 1959, they never reached the charts again. Herbert Kalin was married and had four children, Suzan Lynn, Kelly Lee, Buddy Ladd, and Jonathan Ray. Eventually, disillusioned with diminishing returns, the brothers returned to their day jobs, with each pursuing college degrees. They did not perform again until 1977, when a mutual friend booked them to appear at his new nightclub. Sometimes they performed with their younger sibling, Jack, and"
"added the track ""All My Love (Solo Tu)"" and dropped ""Angel"" and ""Kiss"". Cliff Richard (1965 album) Cliff Richard is a studio album by Cliff Richard, released by Columbia Records on LP in 1965 and available in both mono and stereo.. It is Richard's seventh studio album and thirteenth album overall. The album peaked at number 9 in the UK Albums Chart. In some regions outside the UK, ""Angel"" was lifted from the album to be a single. It reached number 6 in Australia and number 14 in Belgium. The album was first released in April 1965. The album was"
"Wired for Sound Wired for Sound is a studio album by Cliff Richard, released in August 1981. The album peaked at number 4 in the UK album charts upon release, and spent a total of 25 weeks on the chart in 1981–82. The album was certified Platinum by the BPI and achieved sales over one million globally. The title track was released as the lead single of the album, and was followed up by a cover of Shep and the Limelites 1961 US doo-wop hit, ""Daddy's Home"". The singles peaked at number 4 and 2 respectively on the UK singles"
"singles within the UK itself make him the highest selling British male solo artist of singles of all time. In the rock and roll era in which Richard's career began, singles were the dominant sales medium, generally way ahead of album sales. Richard's debut single ""Move It"" released in August 1958 reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and spent 17 weeks on the chart. However, from the time his fifth single ""Living Doll"" reached number 1 in August 1959 through to ""Don't Talk to Him"" reaching number 2 in December 1963, Richard racked up 19 consecutive top 4"
"singles, including 7 number ones and a further 6 peaking at number 2. Richard racked up a total of 28 weeks at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart in this period. His biggest hit of this period was ""The Young Ones"", which debuted at number one on the UK charts, spent a total of 6 weeks at number one and went on to achieve the rare feat in the UK alone, of sales of over a million - it was only the sixth million seller in the UK and remains his highest selling single in the UK. From 1964,"
"Together with Cliff Richard Together with Cliff Richard is a Christmas album by Cliff Richard, released in November 1991. The album features Richard singing popular traditional Christmas songs, his Christmas hits from recent years and two original songs. The album reached #10 in the UK Albums Chart and #2 in New Zealand. The singles differed between regions. In the UK, ""We Should Be Together"" reached #10 in the UK Singles Chart in the week of Christmas. It was followed by ""This New Year"", released just in time for the new year and made #30. In Europe and New Zealand, Richard's"
"number 4 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1959. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Subsequently, he signed with the Imperial record label, and pounded out two more Top 40 hits, ""Let There Be Drums"", which went to number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and ""Drums Are My Beat"". In December 1961, the British music magazine, ""NME"", reported that ""Let There Be Drums"" had gone Top 10 in both the United Kingdom and United States. All three were instrumentals (a feat rarely repeated). Guitar playing on these hits was by co-writer Richard"
"Richard reached number 2 in the charts with ""Move It"". British impresario Larry Parnes fashioned young singers to the new trend, giving them corny names such as Billy Fury, Marty Wilde and Vince Eager. At the same time, TV shows such as ""Six-Five Special"" and ""Oh Boy!"", both produced by Jack Good, promoted the careers of British rock and rollers like Marty Wilde and Adam Faith. Cliff Richard and his backing band The Drifters, who quickly changed their name to The Shadows, were the most successful home grown rock and roll based acts of the era. Other leading acts included"
"to appear, including Wee Willie Harris and Tommy Steele. During this period American Rock and Roll remained dominant; however, in 1958 Britain produced its first ""authentic"" rock and roll song and star, when Cliff Richard reached number 2 in the charts with ""Move It"". At the same time, TV shows such as ""Six-Five Special"" and ""Oh Boy!"" promoted the careers of British rock and rollers like Marty Wilde and Adam Faith. Cliff Richard and his backing band, the Shadows, were the most successful home grown rock and roll based acts of the era. Other leading acts included Billy Fury, Joe"
"case. Cliff Richard's 1958 hit ""Move It"" is widely regarded as the first authentic British rock and roll record, and ""laid the foundations"" for the Beatles and Merseybeat music. John Lennon said of Richard: ""before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music"". In contrast with contemporaries such as Marty Wilde, Billy Fury and Adam Faith, his successful performing and recording career in the UK has extended over several decades. Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has"
"Five had a No. 7 hit in the UK Singles Chart with Froggatt's ""The Red Balloon"" in 1968. His own version of the song, under the title ""Callow la Vita"", reached No. 3 in the Netherlands. Another Froggatt song, ""Big Ship"", was a No. 8 UK hit for Cliff Richard in 1969. In the 1970s the band was managed by Don Arden, hoping to break into the United States music scene, but the experience led to the collapse of the band. He later became an internationally recognised country music performer, releasing ""Here's to Everyone"" (1993) on his Red Balloon record"
"happen. I mean it could have been anybody and it would have been a hit."" Cliff Richard released ""Miss You Nights"" on 14 November 1975 as the lead single from his studio album ""I'm Nearly Famous"". It entered the British Top 20 and in early 1976, reached #15 in the UK Singles Chart. Despite not reaching a high chart position, it has become an enduring favourite of Richard's fans. For example, in 2006 UK BBC Radio 2 listeners voted it their favourite Cliff Richard song of all time. Chart performance Album appearances ""Miss You Nights"" was first included on Richard's"
"and the Drifters recorded their own version, which was intended to be the A-side of their debut single. However, when producer Jack Good heard ""Move It"", he insisted that Richard would have to sing that if he was to appear on Good's TV show ""Oh Boy!"" On the planned single, ""Move It"" was flipped to be the A-side and it climbed to number 2 in the charts, starting Cliff Richard on a career which included British hits through six decades. Described by Allmusic as ""Presley-esque"" and by Richard himself as ""my one outstanding rock 'n' roll classic"", ""Move It"" was"
"1990s and has amassed 28 top 5 albums and 44 top 10 albums. Richard's debut single ""Move It"", written by his original guitarist Ian Samwell, was the first truly home-grown British rock and roll hit. Richard released his 102nd album in 2016, titled ""Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll"", which includes a posthumous duet of ""Blue Suede Shoes"" with Elvis Presley and continues in the rock and roll theme of his previous studio album ""The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook"". He released his 145th single in 2017, with The Piano Guys. Richard's debut album ""Cliff"" was recorded live at Abbey Road"
"a brief return to record label EMI with whom he had previously been signed for 41 years. Cliff Richard was signed to EMI Records since his single ""Move It"", released in 1958. In 1999, he left the label due to a dispute over the release of ""The Millennium Prayer"", with the single subsequently being released on the Chrysalis Group owned Papillon Records label and becoming his first number one single in nine years. He returned to EMI in 2003 to release his single ""Santa's List"" and the album ""Cliff at Christmas"". Richard had previous success with singles at Christmas, and"
"chart at 66 on 11 December, before climbing to 60 the following week and then left the charts for the final time. The 2003 release of the album went platinum in the UK charts, selling over 300,000 copies. It was Richard's first album to go platinum since the release of """" in 2000. Tracks 3, 5, 7, 11–14, and 16 are new recordings. Cliff at Christmas Cliff at Christmas is the 2003 Christmas album of Cliff Richard, containing eight new songs and nine previously released songs including all of his previous hit Christmas-themed singles included. One new single was released"