Showing posts with label Cliff Richard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cliff Richard. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Cliff Richard and the Drifters: Move It

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John Lennon once said: "I think the first English record that was anywhere near anything was Move It by Cliff Richard, and before that ...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

The rise and fall and (slight) rise of Lionel Bart

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By my calculation, this edition of The South Bank Show dates from 1994. As much of my politics come from reading Oliver Twist too young, an...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The Joy of Six 1455

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"By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastru...
Monday, September 01, 2025

One Pair of Eyes: Birmingham - The Venice of England? (1970)

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This is part of a film shown in the BBC's documentary series One Pair of Eyes in 1970. We see the last days of commercial carrying and t...
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Sunday, May 04, 2025

The Shadows: Apache

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Has there every been anything cooler, more bad ass, in British pop than Jet Harris smoking that cigarette? Maybe Hank Marvin is too good nat...
Sunday, March 02, 2025

Cliff Richard and the Drifters: High Class Baby

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This new generation of Beatles fans is entitled to its enthusiasms, but it does seem to lack a sense of history. Any music that came before ...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Six of the Best 955

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"Whereas Thatcher offered young people hope - not least the hope of owning their own home - today’s Tories do not. Yes Thatcher wanted ...
Sunday, December 08, 2019

Johnny Kidd and The Pirates: Shakin' All Over

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I am given to nominating Move It by Cliff Richard and the Shadows as the great British rock and roll record, but last time I did so someo...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Eurovision: Blame Simon Cowell not Brexit

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Embed from Getty Images It's tempting to blame our last place in this year's Eurovision on Brexit. But as Chris Dillow pointed ou...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

The Beatles: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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I saw a comment on Twitter about Richard Curtis's new film Yesterday, which imagines a world in which the Beatles have not existed. ...
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Saturday, December 08, 2018

Six of the Best 835

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Stephen Bush says it was not Theresa May who killed Brexit but her adviser Nick Timothy: Stephen Fry’s Brexit video repeats Remain’s 2016...
Sunday, November 04, 2018

Freddie & the Dreamers: I'm Telling You Now

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Why isn't Mitch Murray better known? In the Sixties he wrote or co-wrote hits for Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Dave Clark Five, Manf...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Robin Sarstedt: My Resistance is Low

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There was a hashtag popular on Twitter earlier this week ( #songsofsummer1976 ) that people used to boast about having been at famous earl...
Sunday, July 01, 2018

Take Me High: Cliff Richard in Brutalist Birmingham

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Cliff Richard's last film as the star was Take Me High , in which he took on Brutalist Birmingham and won. I once posted a scene of ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Six of the Best 677

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"This lack of engagement with any actual evidence permeates the entire piece. The widely understood phenomenon of induced demand (bui...
Sunday, December 06, 2015

Cliff Richard discovers Gas Street Basin in 1974

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An extract from the film Take Me High. Reel Streets , which has lots of photographs of the film's locations then and now, describes ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Man rings police after neighbour posts "creepy" picture of Cliff Richard in his window

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Our Headline of the Day contest sees a win for Brighton's The Argus .
Saturday, August 16, 2014

The BBC, Jimmy Savile and Cliff Richard

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In view of the BBC's enthusiasm for live broadcasting the police search of Cliff Richard's flat, it is worth reminding ourselves of ...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Cliff Richard in Serious Charge

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Our Ironic Film of the Day. This was Cliff Richard's first film appearance. He has only a small role, but he and Andrew Ray are abou...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Shadows: Wonderful Land

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I have had this tune in mind as a possible Sunday video for some time. The recent death of Jet Harris , the Shadows' original bass pla...
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