
Cliff Richard
Born October 14, 1940 · Lucknow, India
Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an English singer who holds both British and Barbadian citizenship. He has total sales of over 21.5 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 Presley and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song. In the early 1960s, he had a prosperous screen career with films including The Young Ones, Summer Holiday and Wonderful Life and his own television show at the BBC. Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image, and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music. In a career spanning nearly 65 years, Richard has amassed several gold and platinum discs and awards, including two Ivor Novello Awards and three Brit Awards. More than 130 of his singles, albums, and EPs have reached the UK Top 20, more than any other artist. Richard has had 67 UK top ten singles, the second highest total for an artist (behind Presley). He holds the record, with Presley, as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles, and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in each of five consecutive decades. He also had four UK Christmas No. 1 singles, two of which were as a solo artist; "Mistletoe and Wine" and "Saviour's Day". Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has never achieved the same popularity in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling "Devil Woman" and "We Don't Talk Anymore". In Canada, he had a successful period in the early 1960s, the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some releases certified gold and platinum. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality at home in the UK as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and retains a following in other countries. When not touring, he divides his time between Barbados and Portugal. In 2019, he relocated to New York. Cliff Richard was born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940 at King George's Hospital (now KGMU Hospital), Victoria Street, in Lucknow, which was then part of British India. His parents were Rodger Oscar Webb, a manager for a catering contractor that serviced the Indian Railways, and the former Dorothy Marie Dazely. His parents also spent some years in Howrah, West Bengal. After the violence of Direct Action Day, they decided to relocate to England permanently. Richard is primarily of English heritage, but he had one great-grandmother who was of half Welsh and half Spanish descent, born of a Spanish great-great-grandmother named Emiline Joseph Rebeiro.
Notable Appearances
Movies

If These Walls Could Sing

Queen: Champions of the World

Live Aid

Run For Your Wife

70 Jahre ESC - More than Music

The Grand Knockout Tournament

Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 5

Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace

The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012

Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me

Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights

Heroes of Comedy: Arthur Askey

Our Cilla

The Best British Rock Concert of All Time: Live at Knebworth

The BRITs at 40

Thunderbirds Are GO

It Started with Swap Shop

Wonderful Life

Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask

Doctor Who: Origins

Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6

The Downing Street Patient

Live Aid

Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10

Expresso Bongo

Summer Holiday

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Premiere Collection Encore

Two a Penny

Bottom Mindless Violence

Alma Cogan: Her Fabulous Story

An Audience with Des O'Connor

Silver Clef Award Winners Show, Knebworth Park

Kenny Everett - The Complete Naughty Bits

Congratulations: 50 Years Of The Eurovision Song Contest (1956 - 1980)

Classic Albums: The Chirping Crickets

The Young Ones

Serious Charge

Heathcliff

... Sings Dylan II

Finders Keepers

Cliff Richard: The Hitlist Live

The Accused: National Treasures on Trial

Rhythm 'n' Greens

Cliff and the Shadows: The Final Reunion

Året var 1961

Cliff Richard and The Shadows - The Final Reunion
TV Shows

Sacrée soirée

The One Show

Champs-Elysées

The South Bank Show

Loose Women

Top Gear

Eurovision Song Contest

Wogan

Wetten, dass..?

ITV Playhouse

An Audience with...

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Paul O'Grady Show

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

TFI Friday

Brisant

Parkinson

Verstehen Sie Spaß?

Classic Albums

Going Live!

The Frank Skinner Show

Solid Gold

Musikladen

The BRIT Awards

Disco

Dansk Melodi Grand Prix

Cilla

OK! TV

Starparade

The Kenny Everett Video Show

The F Word

The Dame Edna Experience

The Cannon & Ball Show

Seaside Special

Paul O'Grady's Saturday Night Line Up

The Story of Musicals

The Story of Light Entertainment

Plattenküche

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Blair: The Inside Story

Movie Connections

Obs 86 - Show

Jukebox Heroes

Zona+

Simon Schama's Story of Us

Everyman
More Movies

Hank Marvin: Hank Plays Live

Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air

Take Me High

Cliff Richard: The Great 80 Tour - Live From the Royal Albert Hall

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

Cliff Richard: 75th Birthday Concert

Cliff Richard: The Blue Sapphire Tour 2023

Cliff Richard: The Countdown Concert

His Land

Cliff Richard 60th Anniversary Concert

Cliff Richard: Bold As Brass

Farewell, FAB 208

Cliff Richard From a Distance: The Event

Cliff at Christmas

Cliff Richard Still Reelin' and A-Rockin' - Live at Sydney Opera House

Sir Cliff Richard at the BBC

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