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If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

"But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing".

"They say I'm not cool - that's because I'm HOT" Said with tongue firmly in cheek at Wembley.

"With all the terrible things that go on in our world, maybe it is time for the Saints to appear among the murderers and the drug dealers. The more I think about it the more I realise Urban Saints is the perfect new name for Crusaders."

"I've seen movies where people play other people when they don't look anything like the person. So I pick Brad Pitt."

"They called my first job 'Credit Control Clerk' but forgot to mention the tea duties. The latter I did well, the former disastrously. My grasp of English geography was pretty duff and the job involved sorting out accounts into regions - Northern, Midlands, South-west and so on. When I tell you that only a year or two ago I twigged that Cornwall wasn't part of Wales, you'll appreciate why I didn't excel."

Also from Summer Holiday, I sang this on a hill overlooking the Acropolis, wearing the very latest in string vests. And they say romance is dead!"

"I never rebelled against my parents. Why should I? They were good people. My father encouraged me. He admired people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, which was quite something - in those days, people were into classical music or bandleaders - so I didn't feel a generation gap ... I felt love. My father was realistic. He said, 'You have our support, but you have to recognise the possibility that you might fail'. I inherited a strong sense of perspective from him. If I sell a million records in Britain, I automatically think, 59 million people didn't buy it."

" ... last year I did a TV show and a leading newspaper critic said: 'Cliff's show was so wholesome it made me sick'. 'Wholesome' and 'sick' in the same sentence? How can something wholesome make a person sick?

That criticism typifies the attitude today. If something's good, honest, well-bred and professional, it's considered suspect. These days, the police face more criticism than organised crime! What kind of world are we living in, where the forces of law and order are the bad guys? It's the done thing to regard everything that used to be considered negative as cool."

"One of the first things I do when I get home after a week or so away is inspect the garden. I'm no great gardener myself but love to see things grow and love just to enjoy a garden. By that, I mean pottering around, appreciating the beauty of it all."

"The newspapers in Britain, as well as in Germany, write many things about me ... And sometimes I read what they write about me, and I don't understand how they can tell such lies. It's not always the case. I am thankful. I know I cannot correct everything."

"Oh, I thought it was a terrific, fabulous idea. It's strange psychology, but if you appear in a puppet film as a puppet, somehow you grow in stature and importance in the eyes of the public. It's like when people do impersonations of you - it makes you somehow larger than life. I liked being represented as a puppet; it was quite flattering."

Cliff Richard remembers: " When the idea was put forward that The Shadows and I were to be "puppeted", we were thrilled really. THUNDERBIRDS was a very famous TV series and kids loved it, so we were happy to do it. It was quite a hoot to see our puppets for the first time. I was never really sure, whether I looked like my puppet or it looked like me! I thought Hank Marvin's puppet was really good, but then he always looked like a puppet anyway!"

"I wasn't slightly naive, I was very naive - but then I couldn't be anything but naive because no-one else had done it before. I was an out and out rocker - don't let your daughter go and see him, that sort of thing - and no-one had ever done that in Europe. Even in America rock 'n' roll was very new and nobody knew if it would last or not."

"Believe it or not, I simply asked them for a dance hit and this arrived on a demo tape almost by return of post. Clever, these Chinese."

"There was a fleeting achievement at soccer, when I played right-back for the Under-14 Hertfordshire Eleven".

"I didn't drive it very much, believe it or not. The fast stuff, when it was hurtling down dusty tracks was driven by a stuntman. I did drive it through Athens, though, and that was murder. There was so much traffic, and yes, I probably climbed a curb or two. I'm certain there's a breed of Greek with flat feet."

"It's really great to think that a record that has already been at number one can be number one again!"

"My dream girl is neat, natural, pretty, but not spectacular......and she'll love me for myself."

We always have fun performing it but, if you can keep a secret, I have to confess that I prefer the original Shep & The Limelites recording to mine. (But only just!)".

"As the years go by, it gets harder to sing this and keep a straight face. But then it's young at heart that most matters - or so they say!

For those who like their pop history, this was my first record that went straight to the No. 1 spot".

"When I first heard Chris Eaton's demo of the song on my car radio in the office car park, I reckoned it would be bigger than Mistletoe And Wine, I was wrong.

It was still a No. 1 but it didn't sell as many. Nevertheless, it was the only Christmas record that was relevant to the birthday!"

"I bet you didn't know that I wrote this with Bruce in a rented bungalow in Blackpool. Although I say it myself, I think I should have gone back more often."

During an recent telly show in Denmark while they were talking a lot about his perfumes.

"We pushed ourselves hard. But we had age on our side. At first we couldn't afford hotels and we'd say we were staying at the Bedford. But it wasn't a hotel, it was the old van we travelled in".

When I walk out on stage nowadays Well, I am pretty nervous Almost as nervous as the very first time I ever appeared in public Some folks say there’s an invisible glass between an audience and the performer And the performer’s first and of course biggest task is to shatter it I guess I’m lucky though, for it’s never been that way for me Right away, that sort of great big friendly welcome comes rolling up and I’m off My eyes usually get drawn to one particular face to sing to And after a few bars it’s pretty easy I can’t see much - just the glint of highlit hair as a head turns maybe Or the flash of a smile, or even the glitter of eyes - but that’s plenty The wonderful girl who cured my shakes could have been you in the past Or it could be you in the future Whoever it is, my sincere and most grateful thanks to you all

"This album has been a real treat for me. The only problem has been in selecting the first single. In the end, the record company went for Somethin' Is Goin' On, which I like although it's not my favourite."

"Well it was terrific publicity for me! And it didn't damage his career. But I can't pretend to understand why he might have lost his job for playing my music. Only this year I was voted the Ultimate Pop Star by Channel 4. I don't think it's bragging to say that kind of proves there are plenty of people out there who want to hear my music."

"Listen carefully, and you'll realise that this was originally an Italian melody. You can almost imagine those Venetian gondoliers singing it between their Cornettos! Like so much of my early material the song was found for me by Norrie Paramor."

"If I release a record and there are 500 records, that's competition. It's a little unfair for those of us who are over 25 years old these days. Radio 1 doesn't play me. I find that really hurtful. Last year, we released a single, Peace In Our Time. They didn't play it because they said I am not in their target audience.

Yet the very week they said that, in one of their programs, they they played eight singles and the public chose mine as the one they wanted to hear. Mine won by 50%. So I felt affronted, cheated. Because it is a heavy competition out there and some of these kids are really good at what they do. But they also need the competition from those of us who have done it before and done it well."

"I'm over the moon. It is quite hard to believe that I'm No. 1 against all the odds."

When he heard of the programme's demise Sir Cliff said: "The passing of Top of the Pops certainly leaves me with many nostalgic memories but, to be honest, with no great regret. "Long gone are the days when pop music lovers would eagerly await the first broadcast of the weekly chart on Radio 1."

"When we were fifteen we did Toad of Toad Hall at school and I played Ratty! I had to sing a song and I really enjoyed it. My English teacher said: "You ought to sing, you know" - terrible actor, but I ought to sing!

I'd always wanted to sing, so I formed a group. No instruments, just a vocal group, which did school dances and local hops and all that. Then finally, when I left school, the group disbanded, but I got together with an ex-school mate who played the drums, and formed a rock 'n' roll band. We gathered a bit of fame locally. We used to play in pubs and things and they would give us all the silver they had at the end of the evening. We used to hope like mad that nobody had any notes!"

"Of all the records I've made over the years, I reckon that Sammy's Move It remains my one outstanding rock 'n' roll classic. Not only that, but it was the song that kicked off my career, and pioneered a whole new sound in the UK music scene in the late 1950s. It certainly doesn't seem that long ago that we took the 715 bus from Cheshunt to Oxford Circus in order to audition for Norrie Paramor, but it was during that journey that Sammy sat scrawling on a bit of paper. Move It was born and a little bit of rock 'n' roll history created. The fact that it took him 30 years to send me the second verse is neither here nor there!!

Not sure where it comes from, but in the Express some while back - liked this one:

"I'm affectionately known by Elton John as either Sylvia Disc or the Bionic Christian." Sir Cliff Richard

I like hearing or reading the things that Cliff says, particularly on unusual questions or subjects. Its rare today to hear different questions. Anyone got any interesting ones? Here's my starter:

Interviewer: So, sometimes you don’t know until you’ve finished mastering a track, whether it will achieve a release?

Cliff: “Yeah, that’s right. If in fact it’s quite a good song, but not good enough, we’ll maybe keep it, then use it as a ‘B’ side or something. I always feel sorry for the public who buy singles. I know singles are slowly dipping away in terms of sales. But you do have to release them, because that’s what D.J.’s play, and that’s how people recognise what’s on your album. But when you buy a single, it costs quite a lot, and if it’s got two tracks from your album, when you buy the album, there’s only eight new tracks. If they release 3 singles, that means there are 6 tracks on the album you’ve already got, leaving only 4 new tracks on the album. So I’ve tended to try most of the time to put completely off the wall ‘B’ sides that have nothing to do with the album. So when people buy the single at least they have got in their collection some singles that have songs on the ‘B’ side that they wouldn’t have, if they didn’t have that single. "


Cliff arrive on Cape Town Airport on 4 March 2007 for his sold out performances in Cape Town. I wish I was on the airport!	The Poster that announced Cliff Richards' concerts in Cape Town. I was lucky to get one and boy it cost me! It was right at the top of an electricity pole and I paid someone to get up there and take one down! You should have seen the look on the faces of the motorists.


Cliff is on the front cover of the March issue of the Christian Magazine TODAY. Beautiful photo. An article inside with another photo.	Cliff as featured in the South African magazine The winemag during the anual wine fair in London. Not a very clear photo, but it's still Cliff!


Wow did you all come to see me?	Are you serious?	What a lovely girl you are.

I feel passionate about Rock 'n Roll and my fans	The view from a far	Yeah I remember.you sitting in the ront row at my 1961 concert.

(The media dubbed this his very best concert of his South African Tour - and we were there!)


Humble beginnings at 10:30	The crowd grows 13:35	All the way from the UK. Welcome
	This poster made by Deidre put a smile on Cliffs' face <-------- ---------> We helped Cliff to give his best performance of his S.A. Tour
Deidre skipped 3 days of school to see Cliff perform. This was her first International Concert!	We were a bunch of fans together and my mum thought we were crazy to cue from 10 in the morning but it was worth every second in the sun! We all got front row seats and we worked the crowd up to a frenzy just before Cliff came on stage for the best show of his S.A. tour!

He started off with Summer Holiday	A close-up	Watch the sweat marks on his shirt.

Cliff and his leading lady Dawn Joseph. What a match!	Cliff didn't forget his words this time oh and the champers were fake	I will not be a MISTAKE!

Daddy, what car?	Cliff bulking out another hit!	It's been lekker man!

Lionel Bart who wrote Living Doll - at No. 1 for 6 weeks in 1959 was born Lionel Begleiter. His new name was inspired on a bus journey past St. Bartholomew's Hospital (affectionately known as Barts). The boys of the 60"s seemed to have spend a lot of time on busses writing hit songs (move it) and changing your name like Lionel. By the late 1970's his heavy drinking had brought on diabetes. He stopped drinking but one third of his liver had been destroyed. Lionel Bart died aged 68 in 1999 after suffering cancer for 6 months.