"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"
"while strumming a guitar, suggested they do it like a country song. Richard and his band agreed and duly rerecorded the song with the slower tempo. The song was recorded in April 1959 by Cliff Richard and the Drifters and produced by Norrie Paramor. It was first released in the UK in May 1959 on the ""Serious Charge"" (EP) soundtrack before being released as a single in July 1959. It was number 1 on the UK Singles Chart for six weeks from July, becoming the biggest selling single of 1959 in the UK with sales of 770,000. Richard was awarded"
"Cliff Sings Cliff Sings is the second album by British vocalist Cliff Richard, however as his first album, simply titled Cliff was recorded live, it is considered his first conventional studio album. It was released in November 1959 through EMI Columbia Records and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. It reached No. 2 in the UK album chart. No singles were released from the album in the UK (as was often the case prior to the 1970s). The album is split between rock 'n' roll and traditional pop standard covers. It is also the beginning of a repeated pattern in Richard's"
"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,"
"the Beatles, but these performances did not help them gain sustained success in North America. Richard and the Shadows appeared in six feature films including a debut in the 1959 film ""Serious Charge"" but most notably in ""The Young Ones"", ""Summer Holiday"", ""Wonderful Life"", and ""Finders Keepers"". These films created their own genre, known as the ""Cliff Richard musical"", and led to Richard being named the No. 1 cinema box office attraction in Britain for both 1962 and 1963, beating that of even James Bond. The title song of ""The Young Ones"" became his biggest-selling single in the United Kingdom,"
"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"
"selling over one million copies in the UK. The irreverent 1980s TV sitcom ""The Young Ones"" took its name from Richard's 1962 film. In mid-1963, Cliff and the Shadows appeared for a season in Blackpool, where Richard had his portrait modelled by Victor Heyfron. As with the other existing rock acts in Britain, Richard's career was affected by the advent of the Beatles and the Mersey sound in 1963 and 1964. He continued to have hits in the charts throughout the 1960s, though not at the level that he had enjoyed before. Nor did doors open to him in the"
"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"
"Listen to Cliff! Listen to Cliff! is the third studio album by singer Cliff Richard and fourth album overall. It was released through EMI Columbia Records in April 1961 and features rock and pop standards, it reached No. 2 in the UK album chart, charting for 26 consecutive weeks and re-entering twice. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, no singles were officially released from the album. None of the 1961 single releases are available on this album. The album mainly features covers of musicals and popular 1930s and 40s songs. ""Blue Moon"" was issued as an export single. Tony Meehan was"
"a Silver Disc on 1 November 1959, on the television show ""Sunday Night at the Palladium"". It was a number 1 hit in several European countries, including Ireland, Norway and Sweden and top ten hit in numerous countries. In the US, it was Richard's first hit single, reaching number 30 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It went on to sell over a million copies worldwide and earnt the record company's internally awarded Gold Disc for the achievement. The Gold Disc was awarded to Richard on 17 January 1960, on the ""Sunday Night at the Palladium"" again, the night the show"
"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"
"combination of the American situation, Cliff Richard's runaway success (""Living Doll"" had by now sold over a million copies in Britain alone) and a bit of nudging from Norrie Paramor, we set about finding a permanent name, which arrived out of the blue one summer's day in July 1959 (maybe the 19th). When Hank Marvin and Jet Harris took off on their scooters up to the Six Bells pub at Ruislip, Jet hit upon a name straight away. 'What about the Shadows?' The lad was a genius! So we became the Shadows for the first time on Cliff's sixth single"
"chart. Cliff Richard selected the song for his milestone 100th single in 1989. Released on 30 May 1989, the song debuted at #2 on the UK Singles Chart and stayed there another week in its 7-week run on the chart. It was certified Silver by the BPI for sales over 200,000. Before releasing his 100th single, Richard invited 2,000 British fans to the London Palladium for a preview of six songs from his forthcoming album (which would be ""Stronger)"", to vote on which one they liked most as possible 100th single. Ironically, ""The Best of Me"" came second to ""Stronger"
"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"
"#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"
"producer. In July 1979, ""We Don't Talk Anymore"" was the first single to be released. Its fresh and contemporary pop sound made it an obvious choice and the public response was highly enthusiastic. The single quickly hit the number one spot, becoming Richard's first chart topper for more than a decade. It remained at the top for four weeks and became his biggest selling single in the UK, with sales just short of one million. It also became a big hit worldwide, including a top 10 entry in America. It eventually sold three million copies. With the failure of his"
"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"
"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"". Richard was quoted as saying: The single went to No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. John Lennon credited ""Move It"" as being the first British rock record. In the early days, Richard was marketed as the British equivalent of Elvis. Like previous British rockers such as Tommy Steele and Marty Wilde, Richard adopted Elvis-like dress and hairstyle. In performance he struck a pose of rock attitude, rarely smiling or looking at"
"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"
"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"
"the rooftop of a skyscraper. ""Paddington"" (2014) features several London locations, and includes modern landmarks such as The Shard and the London Eye. Cliff Richard was a film star with three successful musical comedies in the early 1960s. The first of these, ""The Young Ones"" (1961), was set in London. Cliff, The Shadows, and others need money to save their youth club, so they set up a pirate radio station to generate publicity for the show. Although Cliff's second hit, ""Summer Holiday"" (1963), mostly took place while driving across Europe, it prominently featured a red London AEC, RT bus. The"
"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,"
"France, West Germany, Japan, and the United States. There have been many additional compilation albums and singles released outside the UK that are too numerous to include; however, some of the more successful or notable singles released outside the UK have been included in the Singles section. It is claimed Cliff Richard's worldwide sales are 260 million, which makes him the second highest selling British male solo artist of all time (worldwide), after Elton John. Richard, together with his backing band The Shadows, were particularly dominant in the UK from 1959 to 1963 during the pre-Beatles era. Richard's sales of"
"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"
"successor, ""Listen to Cliff!"", would have the Norrie Paramor orchestra on backing duties for all but one track. ""Cliff Sings"" was recorded in both stereo and mono but originally only released in mono on LP. From February 1960, the album was also progressively marketed on the EP format, into four EPs, ""Cliff Sings No.1"" through to ""Cliff Sings No.4"", in both mono and stereo. Cliff Sings Cliff Sings is the second album by British vocalist Cliff Richard, however as his first album, simply titled Cliff was recorded live, it is considered his first conventional studio album. It was released in"
"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"
"Cliff Richard to be included in a list of the top Christmas songs by music channel VH1. In 2009, it placed ninth in a list of the most annoying Christmas songs compiled by the company Lactofree. In 2017, ShortList's Dave Fawbert listed the song as containing ""one of the greatest key changes in music history"". Saviour's Day (song) ""Saviour's Day"" is a song by Cliff Richard. It was the United Kingdom Christmas number one single in 1990, the second occasion Richard had a solo Christmas number one. The video for the song was filmed in Dorset. It has subsequently been"
"in the UK singles chart. This was the first of only two tracks from the Eurovision Song Contest that topped the UK chart without winning the competition. Cliff recorded French, German, Italian and Spanish versions of the winning song, as well as a German version of ""Wonderful World"", which was also recorded (in English) by Elvis Presley. Like in 1967 when they won with Sandie Shaw, another current modern pop singer was chosen by the BBC, Cliff Richard sang the song ""Congratulations"", a catchy party pop song, it finished a close 2nd place, losing only to Spain with one point."
"The Young Ones (song) ""The Young Ones"" is a single by Cliff Richard and the Shadows. The song, written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, is the title song to the 1961 film ""The Young Ones"" and its soundtrack album. With advance orders of over 500,000, it was released in January 1962 on the Columbia (EMI) label and went straight to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, the first British single to do so. It held that position for six weeks and spent 20 weeks in the chart. It has sold 1.06 million copies in the UK, and"
"Cliff (album) Cliff is the debut album by British singer Cliff Richard and his band the Drifters (later known as the Shadows). The album is a live-in-the-studio recording of their early rock and roll in front of an invited audience of several hundred fans. It was recorded over two nights during February 1959 in Studio 2 at EMI Recording Studios (later known as Abbey Road Studios) with Norrie Paramor as producer. The album contains renderings of Richard's hit single ""Move It"", both tracks of the yet to be released Drifters' instrumental single ""Jet Black"" and ""Driftin'"" and covers of rock"
"100 in March 1973. British singer Cliff Richard released a live version as a single for the Christmas period in 1981. It was the second single to be lifted from his 1981 album ""Wired for Sound"". The song became an international hit reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 23 on US Billboard Hot 100 in March 1982 (almost twenty years after the release of the original by Shep and the Limelites). In Britain, it was certified Gold by the BPI for sales over 500,000. A video clip was recorded to accompany the single release instead of"
"""Oh Boy!"" (Parlophone 1958), where he sang ""Hey Hey Hey Hey"" (later covered by The Beatles) and ""Lets Rock While the Rocking's Good"". A solo single ""Later"" b/w ""Lots More Love"" was released in 1959, and in 1960 he appeared, as himself, in the film ""Girls of the Latin Quarter"", directed by Alfred Travers and starring Jill Ireland, which was filmed in the London branch of the nightclub Latin Quarter. He also deputised for Cliff Richard, appearing at several concerts when Cliff was ill. After the demise of Oh Boy! in May 1959, he began touring with his own all-black"
"Presley's ""One Night"" recorded in the same session was later released on ""The Rock 'N' Roll Years 1958-1963"" (1997). Two other tracks were recorded but not released - Conway Twitty's ""It's Only Make Believe"" and The Weavers' ""Kisses Sweeter than Wine"" (which had been a hit in the UK in 1958 for Frankie Vaughan). Cliff (album) Cliff is the debut album by British singer Cliff Richard and his band the Drifters (later known as the Shadows). The album is a live-in-the-studio recording of their early rock and roll in front of an invited audience of several hundred fans. It was"