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- Knights Bachelor
- English Christians
- Brit Award winners
- English male television actors
- The Shadows
- Cliff Richard
- English pop singers
- Converts to Christianity
- 1940 births
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- Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
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- Commanders of the Order of Prince Henry
- Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1973
- Male actors from Hertfordshire
- People educated at Cheshunt School
- People from Albufeira
- People from Cheshunt
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| - Born October 14, 1940, Lucknow, India to British parents. Britain's most successful home-grown pop star, he has had more than 130 singles, albums and EP's make the UK Top 20, more than any other artist. He has achieved 14 UK number one singles (or 18, depending on the counting methodology). He holds the record (with [a27518]) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950's–2000's). He was backed in the 1950's by The Drifters (2), who later changed their name to The Shadows.Richard first came to fame in 1958 with his debut disc %22Move It%22, a rock 'n' roll number in the Elvis Presley mould. However, like Elvis himself, Cliff's output quickly settled down into a string of inoffensive, largely middle-of-the-road recordings, while his squeaky clean, teen-heart-throb image was put to use in a series of exuberant, innocent, and thinly-plotted film musicals including %22The Young Ones%22 (1962) and %22Summer Holiday%22 (1963).The late 1970's saw him surprisingly re-invented as a mildly-heavy rocker, and he finally achieved the US recognition that had eluded him for so long when %22Devil Woman%22 reached the top ten there. In 1979 he released %22We Don't Talk Anymore%22, which became his biggest-selling single worldwide, and more hits followed. In 1983, he marked his 25th anniversary in the business with a retrospective album %22Silver%22 and new material in unusual styles. In late 2013, he released his 100th album, %22The Fabulous Rock 'N' Roll Songbook%22.
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| - Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the UK and is the third-top-selling singles artist in UK Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.With his backing group the Shadows, Richard, originally positioned as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Little Richard and Elvis Presley, dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His 1958 hit single %22Move It%22 is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song, and John Lennon once claimed that %22before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.%22 Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music later led to a more middle of the road pop image, sometimes venturing into contemporary Christian music.Over a career spanning more than 50 years, Richard has become a fixture of the British entertainment world, amassing many gold and platinum discs and awards, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and two Ivor Novello Awards. He has had more than 130 singles, albums and EPs make the UK Top 20, more than any other artist and holds the record (with Elvis 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 (or 18, depending on the counting methodology) and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in 5 consecutive decades: the 1950s through to the 1990s. In 2008, he celebrated his 50th anniversary in music by releasing a greatest hits album, featuring the new track %22Thank You for a Lifetime%22, which reached number 3 in the UK singles chart. In November 2013, Richard released his latest album, The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook, which became the 100th album of his career.Richard has never achieved the same impact in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling %22Devil Woman%22 and %22We Don't Talk Anymore%22, the latter becoming the first to reach the Billboard Hot 100's top 40 in the 1980s by a singer who had been in the top 40 in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Canada, Richard achieved moderate success in the 1980s with several albums reaching platinum status. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and he retains a following in other countries.Richard has been a resident for most of his life in the United Kingdom, but in 2010 confirmed that he is now also a citizen of Barbados. In addition to his property in England, he divides his time between living in Barbados and at a vineyard property in Portugal. In 2014 and 2015 Richard has been involved in a controversy that concerns police conduct into an allegation against Richard of a historical sexual offence against a boy, an allegation which Richard strongly denies. Richard has not been arrested or charged with any offence.
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