History Music / CliffRichard

* CoolOldGuy: His fans certainly would argue he's this.

* LastOfHisKind: Cliff and Tommy Steele (who started out two years before Cliff) are probably the very last rockstars of the fifties pre-Beatles era following Music/JerryLeeLewis' death in 2022.

* TransAtlanticEquivalent: He wasn't necessarily the first British answer to Music/ElvisPresley (that was probably Tommy Steele a few years before him) but he was definitely the most successful.

* LetsDuet: He has duetted with several big names, including Music/DavidBowie, Music/EltonJohn, Music/OliviaNewtonJohn and Music/{{Lulu}}, but the one everyone can hum is his hit Christmas collaboration with Music/VanMorrison. His 2014 foray into the charts is a duet with equally venerable singing star Music/EngelbertHumperdinck.

* KavorkaMan: The 1985 mini-hit "Heart User" imagines one of these pairing off with a KavorkaWoman.

* ChristianRock: He has dabbled in this genre but normally does not use his music as an explicit pulpit for his beliefs.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Has reinvented himself several times over the years, such as his recent brass instruments-themed album.

He ended at #56 in ''Series/OneHundredGreatestBritons''. For more detailed information on his life and career[[note]]including information on his recent investigation by the Police and his associated spat with the BBC which we will not address here due to the Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement[[/note]] see Wiki/TheOtherWiki's article at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Richard]].

* CoveredUp: He did a cover of Music/MarvinHamlisch's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAL5u_o4PI4 'Cause I Believe in Loving]]" from ''Film/{{Bananas}}''.

Sir Cliff Richard (real name Harry Rodger Webb, born 14 October 1940) is a singer and entertainer who has managed the feat of a British number one hit single in every decade from the [[TheFifties 1950s]] to [[TheNineties 1990s]]. One of the most enduring icons of British showbusiness, Cliff began his career billed as England's answer to Music/ElvisPresley, and indeed was a cutting edge figure in the RockAndRoll era who made some genuinely good memorable music in that idiom. His hit "Move It" is regarded as the first significant British RockAndRoll song. He fronted a band called the Shadows, who after he went solo, re-invented themselves with some success as an instrumental guitar group. Outshone in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] by Music/TheBeatles and other beat groups, his career never went belly-up, and he reinvented himself with some success as a TV presenter and celebrity. Music never went away, and he remains popular as a middle-of-the-road singer, although possibly as un-known outside Britain as Creator/JohnnyHallyday is outside France.

* LetsDuet: He has duetted with several big names, including Music/DavidBowie, Music/EltonJohn and Music/{{Lulu}}, but the one everyone can hum is his hit Christmas collaboration with Music/VanMorrison. His 2014 foray into the charts is a duet with equally venerable singing star Music/EngelbertHumperdinck.

* ChristianRock: He's done a few Christian recordings (often covers of gospel songs) one of was a [[LetsDuet duet]] with Music/VanMorrison, and including "The Millennium Prayer", which is The Lord's Prayer set to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne".
** He also has a few songs whose religious meanings are veiled but detectable (e.g "The Day I Met Marie" - think about the title for a moment).

* KavorkaMan: The 1985 mini-hit "Heart User" imagines one of these pairing off with a KavorkaWoman
* LetsDuet: He has duetted with several big names, including Music/DavidBowie, Music/EltonJohn and Music/{{Lulu}}, but the one everyone can hum is his hit Christmas collaboration with Music/VanMorrison.
** His 2014 foray into the charts is a duet with equally venerable singing star Music/EngelbertHumperdinck. (Not the German orga composer, the lounge singer who represented the United Kingdom in the 2012 Series/EurovisionSongContest.)

* LetsDuet: He has duetted with several big names, including Music/DavidBowie and Music/{{Lulu}}, but the one everyone can hum is his hit Christmas collaboration with Music/VanMorrison.

He ended at #56 in ''Series/OneHundredGreatestBritons''. For more detailed information on his life and career[[note]]including information on his recent investigation by the Police and his associated spat with the BBC which we will not address here due to the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement[[/note]] see Wiki/TheOtherWiki's article at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Richard]].

Sir Cliff Richard (real name Harry Rodger Webb, born 14 October 1940) is a singer and entertainer who has managed the feat of a British number one hit single in every decade from the [[TheFifties 1950s]] to [[TheNineties 1990s]]. One of the most enduring icons of British showbusiness, Cliff began his career billed as England's answer to Music/ElvisPresley, and indeed was a cutting edge figure in the RockAndRoll era who made some genuinely good memorable music in that idiom. His hit "Move It" is regarded as the first significant British RockAndRoll song. He fronted a band called the Shadows, who after he went solo, re-invented themselves with some success as an instrumental guitar group. Outshone in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] by Music/TheBeatles and other beat groups, his career never went belly-up, and he reinvented himself with some success as a TV presenter and celebrity. Music never went away, and he remains popular as a middle-of-the-road singer, although possibly as un-known outside Britain as Music/JohnnyHallyday is outside France.

Sir Cliff Richard (real name Harry Rodger Webb, born 14 October 1940) is a singer and entertainer who has managed the feat of a British number one hit single in every decade from the [[TheFifties 1950s]] to [[TheNineties 1990s]]. One of the most enduring icons of British showbusiness, Cliff began his career billed as England's answer to Music/ElvisPresley, and indeed was a cutting edge figure in the RockAndRoll era who made some genuinely good memorable music in that idiom. His hit "Move It" is regarded as the first significant British RockAndRoll song. He fronted a band called the Shadows, who after he went solo, re-invented themselves with some success as an instrumental guitar group. Outshone in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] by Music/TheBeatles and other beat groups, his career never went belly-up, and he reinvented himself with some success as a TV presenter and celebrity. Music never went away, and he remains popular as a middle-of-the-road singer, although possibly as un-known outside Britain as Music/JohnnyHalliday is outside France.