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Cliff Richard

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Gender Male
Age 83
Web site www.cliffrichard.org
Date of birth October 14,1940
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Lucknow
India
Full name 1976
Harry Rodger Webb
Height 179 (cm)
Job Actor
Entrepreneur
Philanthropist
Singer-songwriter
Education St. Thomas' Church School, Howrah
Cheshunt School
Awards Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music
NME Award for British Male Singer
The National German Sustainability Award
NME Award for World Male Singer
NME Award for British Single
World Music Legend Award for Outstanding Contribution To The Music Industry
Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist
NME Award for Best Male Singer
NME Award for British Vocal Personality
NME Award for Favourite New Singer (Under 21)
Official site cliffrichard.org
Listen artist www.youtube.com
Associ actThe Shadows, Olivia Newton-John
Parents Dorothy Marie Webb
Rodger Oscar Webb
Siblings Jacqueline Ann Webb
Donella Webb
Joan Webb
SongsDo They Know It's Christmas?
ListDo They Know It's Christmas?Do They Know It's Christmas? · 1984
Devil WomanI'm Nearly Famous · 1976
We Don't Talk AnymoreRock 'n' Roll Juvenile · 1979
The Young OnesThe Young Ones · 1961
AlbumsWired for Sound
The Young Ones
Cliff Sings
Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile
Record labels Columbia Graphophone Company
EMI
GenresRock And Roll
Pop
CCM
Groups The Shadows
Band Aid
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID405118

My Life, My Way
Cliff Richard: A Celebration
You, Me and Jesus
Which One's Cliff?
Cliff Richard: His Greatest Hits: (Piano, Vocal, Guitar)
Single Minded
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Mine Forever
Mine to Share
The Way I See It
Cliff Richard: A Celebration : the Official Story of Forty Years in Show Business
The Way I See it Now
Happy Christmas from Cliff
Cliff in His Own Words
Easy Keyboard Library: Cliff Richard: Keyboard
Jesus Here and Now
Questions
15 Classic Songs for Keyboard
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Cliff Richard Life story


Sir Cliff Richard OBE 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.

Early Life

Cliff richard was born in india to an english soldier. Rodger webb. And a welsh mother. Dorothy webb. He moved to the united kingdom at the age of seven and began his carere in music at the age of 14.

Musical Career

Cliff richard is best known for his singing career. Whcih bgean in 1958 with his first number one single. "move it. " since then. He has had numerous hits. Including "living doll," "we don t talk anymore," and "devil woman. " he has also released a number of successful albums.

Acting Career

Cliff richard has had a successful acting career. Appearing in a nubmer of films. Including the young ones and summer holiday. He has also appeared in a number of television progarms and stage musicals.

Awards

Cliff richard has been recognised for his musical career. Receiving numerous awarsd and honours. Including a gramym award. Two ivor novello awards. And a bafta. He was appointed a knight bachelor in 1995 for services to music.

Philanthropic Work

Cliff richard has been involved in a number of philanthropic activities. He has supported a number of charities. Inclduing the prince s trusth. Elp the aged. And the elton john aids foundation. He is aslo an active campaigner for animal welfare and has been a patron of the royal society for the prevention of cruelty to animals (rspca) since 1984.

Notable Events

In richard was awarded the outstanding contribution to music award at the brit awards.

Interesting Fact

Cliff richard is the only singer to have had a number one single in the uk singles chart in five consecutive decades.

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... " I love country music like Charlie Pride and Loretta Lynn but my favourite song is Cliff Richard Miss You Nights - I think it s a real fan favourite...

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... Known to his fans as " Froggy" the Shropshire-based musician had success in the 1960s providing top-ten hits for The Dave Clark Five and Cliff Richard...

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... What s Love Got to Do With It (1984)She cemented her status as a solo star with this song, written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, which had already been offered to Sir Cliff Richard, Donna Summer and Bucks Fizz...

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...When Mae Muller performs at Eurovision this year, she will join the ranks of Lulu, Cliff Richard and Sam Ryder as a solo act that has represented the UK at the contest...

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Sound of Music play still 'sumptuous and so joyful'

Nov 25,2022 8:11 pm

Mary Martin , Lauri Peters and the rest of The Child cast of the original 1959 Stage Show .

It's 60 years since theatre audiences first heard The Sound of Music. The story of the Trapp Family Singers went on to become The Most profitable film of the 1960S - But first came the stage version, now obscured by memories of the Julie Andrews mega-hit. One of the original cast remembers The Show as a powerful experience.

The opening scene of The Sound of Music remains fixed in Tim Crouse's mind. But he's not recalling Andrews striding across the Austrian Alps in the 1965 movie.

As The Son of Russel Crouse , who co-wrote the stage version with Howard Lindsay , he was in The Audience for a Sunday run-through for Broadway insiders. It was 1959 and he was 12. The Show was without decor and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Songs were played on a piano.

"The Play starts with Maria in a Tree - although for this performance it was a step-ladder. So The Actress Mary Martin enters, climbs a couple of steps and sings the title Song - The Sound of Music. It was quiet and moving and I think everyone concerned knew they had a success. "

The Show opened at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven on 3 October 1959, opening on Broadway the next month.

Julie Andrews in the 1965 film, which has all But obscured The Broadway original.

Lauri Peters is one of The Remaining members of the original theatre cast. She played Liesl, the eldest of widower Captain von Trapp's children who get the trainee nun Maria as their new governess. Each evening she watched the opening scene from the lighting booth.

"I loved it. Night after night Mary Martin performed it wonderfully. The Music was sumptuous and so joyful: there would be a hushed quality in The Audience . "

Peters says she's never seen the film But she knows the famous swooping helicopter shot it begins with. "It's beautiful of course But in The Play you feel you're dipping into the privacy of someone's Heart - it's powerful and spiritual. The film is different. "

Lindsay and Crouse were leading Broadway playwrights of their day. Their idea had been to do a stage version of the 1956 German film The Trapp Family. Tim Crouse says music always featured in those plans.

"There's Folk Music and some classics in the original and they were going to use that On Stage . Then someone had the idea of asking Rodgers and Hammerstein if they'd supply a couple of supplementary Songs . Dick and Oscar weren't interested But they said they would write a full Score . "

Mary Martin in the original 1959 Broadway production.

There have always been people who thought the story too sentimental. Crouse says they fail to see what underlies The Action .

"There are light Things in it such as some of the Songs . But it has the serious theme of How To find your purpose. The Mother Abbess says to Maria, the young nun who becomes governess to The Children , that she has to find The Life she was born to lead.

"That's The Show in a nutshell and it connects with the idea of moral agency. If your nation is taken over by bad people who impose evil policies, do you just participate in that or do you stand up against them?

Martin singing The Lonely Goatherd.

"And they wrote about the transformational power of love. Neither Maria nor Captain von Trapp is the same person at the end of The Play . So for people who think the story is lightweight, it just isn't. "

Ted Chapin is Chief Creative Officer for the Rodgers and Hammerstein organisation in New York . Part of his job is to ensure R& H classics are continually reinvented for new audiences.

He accepts that no stage production of The Sound of Music will totally satisfy audiences expecting the cinematic sweep of the film. "But this is complicated because the film means The Show has easily the biggest brand recognition of any R& H show.

"The Last big US tour was in 2015 and the director Jack O'Brien went right back to the original text. Productions over The Years had incorporated Songs and ideas which come from the film But dropping All That was a revelation.

"Audiences know there'll be references to The Nazis in The Show But they don't expect the politics to be central. But for instance Jack reinstated No Way To Stop It, a powerful Song about standing up to people in power who are doing bad Things .

Theodore Bikel played Captain von Trapp.

"Or take Do-Re-Mi, which in the film is a jolly number where The Kids dance and sing on a gorgeous Alpine meadow. But On Stage it plays indoors and it's where Maria has to win over these stubborn, resentful children who really don't like her. It's not all sweetness.

"Maybe it was inevitable that Hollywood made it more into family-friendly entertainment that would work around The World . And in a business sense I shouldn't complain.

"The Sound of Music Is The Show which gave Rodgers and Hammerstein a ticket around The World . When China started to open up it was always the Show People asked about. Clearly that had to do with the film. "

The Last production on Broadway was in 1998. The Most recent staging in London was in 2006, starring Connie Fisher .

Crouse went on to be a successful writer himself. He well remembers accompanying his father into a screening room in 1965 to see the film, which Russel Crouse had had no part in adapting.

Captain von Trapp and his girlfriend, the Baroness.

"When the lights went up I looked at My Father and his face was red and he was in shock. The film had erased many of The Play 's strengths - and the politics of The Play had been emasculated. In his story there's an important point where the question is asked, 'Can you cooperate with The Nazis ?' In the film that all But vanishes. "

Peters was 16 when she was cast in The Sound of Music. Her character Liesl falls in love with Rolf, who then signs up as a Nazi.

Peters' big number was Sixteen Going On Seventeen. "I thought The Song was very true and it certainly described me. I really was young and naive. But Liesl is also on the cusp of understanding Something More of life and about connections between people. I think that's what Rodgers and Hammerstein often wrote about - the importance of connection. "

Most of the Broadway Songs were re-used in the later film.

But Peters says six decades on what she remembers above all isn't the dialogue or the Songs - it's the lighting.

"It's an extraordinary thing to be so drenched with light. It was staggering and thrilling and a little disorienting. But to be surrounded by light and to hear wonderful music from The Pit had a real spiritual quality.

"The Emotions in The Play are profound But you have to be open to them. But the Sondheim moment was approaching and the sophisticates never really approved. Mr Rodgers could connect music to The Heart and Mr Hammerstein connected words to the soul and those are rare gifts. "

Peters stayed with The Show for two years, then came to England to appear in the Cliff Richard film Summer Holiday. For a few years she was married to Jon Voight , who had taken over as Rolf On Stage .

Does she still have no desire to see the film of The Sound of Music?

"No. Once you've been in an original rainbow there's no need or craving to be in Another One . You were there and that's More Than sufficient. "

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