TechDigest (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
I'm not saying you're going to get the world's best sound quality from a speaker from one of those hilarious Cliff Richard singing birthday cards...
troubled diva (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... focuses mostly on the 1970s, with occasional forays into ancient history: Sandie Shaw, Lulu, and Cliff Richard's newly controversial runner-up Congratulations . CD2 divides neatly between the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, including Finland's monster-masked heavy metallers, Israel's fierce transgendered diva, and Ukraine’s bacofoiled Christopher Biggins lookey-likey. The “party” only comes...
Times Online - Camilla Cavendish (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
If the latest survey is to be believed, the only churchgoers in 30 years' time will be Sir Cliff Richard and Tony Blair. The Religious Trends report suggests that there will be fewer people attending churches than mosques by 2040, and that the Church of England will be in the red.
IOL (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... it be the odd things he does to promote his music, from being buried in the sand to jumping off a cliff? Before Blunt fans hit us over the head with a pile of CDs, the opinions contained in the survey are not our own. Next to take a bow for irritating listeners is Lily Allen of Smile fame, who was voted into third place. However it seems it wasn't her voice that was the problem but her chaotic...
Freya Bletsoe's Personal Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... school run blondies (no brains clearly!!) or the old age sad lads…giffords who are listening to Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday!! I mean come on!! But in all seriousness - there really is no need - especially when you are listening to shite music as most of the cars that pass here do. ROCK ON!! Tags: Music , stationary , cars , Freya , Sykes , Horbury , Bridge , loud , noise , rant...
The Bayesian Heresy (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Forty years on, we are being asked to believe that General Franco ordered his top television executives to offer bribes to all and sundry to make sure that Spain's entry won that year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and thus deprive Congratulations and Cliff Richard of the title that should have been his. - Franco's win at Eurovision...
Look At This... (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... are 10 shots from music videos from the 80s—can you identify the video? Fake MP3s Running Rampant Cliff Richard and Franco: the mystery Gordon Brown claims a Brit invented the iPod Once a week high quality digital recordings of cassette tapes purchased at the Dalston Oxfam Shop in East London ( via ) Late extra: Beatle Money: An Economic History of The Beatles
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
On the face of it, there are few sillier or unseemly sights in public life than a pop billionaire stroppily complaining that he is not taken seriously enough. Sir Cliff Richard does it every other week. Sir Paul McCartney seems to exude dissatisfaction with his lot. And that high-pitched, perfectly harmonised sound you can hear in the background almost certainly comes from one of the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Congratulations, to quote Sir Cliff Richard, are certainly due to the BBC for allowing Terry Wogan to go on, year after year, gently ribbing this fiesta of musical inconsequence.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... him. But the old dictator still has a habit of popping up unexpectedly. “Franco fix cost Sir Cliff the Euro,” blared The Sun, a British tabloid, in a headline this week. “Sir Cliff Richard was cheated out of success in the Eurovision song contest in 1968 after Spanish fascist dictator Franco rigged the vote,” it explained.According to a documentary aired in Spain, Franco sent...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
SIR CLIFF RICHARD has marked his 50th year in showbusiness by publishing a collection of his top 50 Bible stories for children. The 67-year-old British singer, a devout Anglican, is adamant all kids should be given the chance to read the holy book, insisting it is "almost criminal" for a child to have never opened the [...]
In Case You Didn't Know (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... 1: Paul McCartney 2: James Blunt 3: Lily Allen 4: Robbie Williams 5: Amy Winehouse 6: Bono 7: Cliff Richard 8: Pete Doherty 9: Joss Stone 10: Craig David Source WENN
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Cliff Richard has chosen his top 50 Bible stories. Which are yours?
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
BRITISH crooner Sir Cliff Richard has released a book of his top 50 Bible stories for children to mark the 50th anniversary of his showbiz career.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Friday's Local Hero: Making speeches at Sir Cliff Richard's birthday bash is not a regular activity for kids from Summerston.
