Is Cliff Richard EVIL?

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I have never had the cataloguing programme crash on me before in four months and a couple of hundred records, but Summer Holiday starring Cliff Richard managed to make it "perform an illegal action" and crash harder than JG Ballard. Is Cliff to blame?

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes.

smee (smee), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

yes, shoot him. With extreme prejudice, and make sure the bullets go through his colostomy bag.

chris (chris), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

It could be that your cataloguing programme is evil and couldn't bear to be exposed to the saintliness of Cliff.

robster (robster), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh man, but then his entrails and faeces and piss would spill everywhere.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

He was exorcising the demons that lived in your computer.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cliff's okay.

jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

i luv cliff. my life would suck without "wired for sound" and "devil woman".

di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I dunno - he did sing about locking women in trunks so I guess I he is quite evil.

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

poetry in motion

isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 02:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

Cliff Richard Eurovision vote 'rigged'

haitch, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link

cliff: EVILER than franco??

haitch, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Cliff was on GMTV by phone and he was all "who cares?" so...

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, well Cliff was probably down with Franco too.

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Serious though this is I think I'm with Cliff on this. It seems bizarre that someone should want to make a film about this, although I suppose where's there's a wrong that needs to be righted...

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Nice 'other' stories on that page. One spit roast, and two "was she wearing knickers" features...

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 08:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Fox innit - the future of news.

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 08:14 (sixteen years ago) link

You can imagine in caveman days, when they first invented 'news', what they covered. Results of the latest hunt, what tomorows weather looks like, and what women were not wearing knickers. How far we have come...

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Why has Sir Clifford chosen now to recycle his decade-old moan about Radio 1 not playing his records?

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link

2 Cliff Richard 21st Century Christmas Dec 2006

I don't remember this: Please say it was a Sigue Sigue Sputnik remake!

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link

I cannot tell a lie.

It sounded exactly as you would expect a Cliff Richard song entitled "21st Century Christmas" would sound.

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link

ah.

Cliff, man! Two words: Quality Control!

When the whole "millennium Prayer" thing was happening, he said amongst other things "I'm not saying it's the best single I've ever made.." WELL YOU SHOULD MAN! don't make things that are just 'that'll do'

That's why.

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link

head of his fan club was on GMTV this morning, strangely aggressive for a CR fan

DG, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link

you think?

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link

or are you cliff? or are you cliff?

DG, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link

He supported that campaign for extending copyright so lazy songwriters who had one single hit back in the stone age could still live off the royalties, instead of getting off their arses and looking for work.
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ledge, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, and in the process claimed he wrote "Devil Woman" before someone reminded him...

Mark G, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Your memory starts to go at that age

Tom D., Tuesday, 6 May 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

So anyway,

Cliff. Mate. You have had a number one in every decade since the 1950's.

Except for this one.

You had a go with your 'thank you for a lifetime' single. It didn't make it. To the top, I mean. Number three, not band, but not number one.

So, you reunioned the shads, and done a fairly pedestrian version of "Singing the blues". It's number 40.

You have 4 months left.

It's not going to happen, is it?

Mark G, Monday, 21 September 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link

X-factor pissed on Cliff's christmas chips.

this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Monday, 21 September 2009 10:12 (fourteen years ago) link

"pissy christmas chips" to be number one with a bullet for cliff this december

What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 21 September 2009 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link

I like the 'talking directly to Cliff' approach Grout has used on this thread - does he post here?

What are the benefits of Western democracy, better elections? (DJ Mencap), Monday, 21 September 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes I do.

Mark G, Monday, 21 September 2009 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Did anyone read the Bob Stanley article in the Graun on Cliff, with many quotes from Tom Ewing, last Friday

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/17/cliff-richard-bob-stanley

Chewshabadoo, Monday, 21 September 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah, that was a great piece...

jesus mighty lord chewy (stevie), Monday, 21 September 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link

usually a bit ehhh about b-stan's music journalism but that was a good piece.

history mayne, Monday, 21 September 2009 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Dirty, dirty man. He was all over Kenny Everett's Naughty Bits.

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Also listening to the 45 of Devil Woman on 33 is really quite sinister.

menelaus, Monday, 21 September 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Sorry about the odd link in the above, still seems to work though.

menelaus, Monday, 21 September 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Cliff? He's the fire blanket of British pop, reliably curtailiing any heat or troublesomeness...but he gets better the longer he goes on; my review of his 1977 double greatest hits compilation (the last of this year's 40-track double retrospectives, thankfully).

Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

Blimey!

http://www.cliffrichard.org/_images/shopping/calendar/cliff_2013.jpg

Neil S, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

Misunderstood Cliff; I attempt to redress the balance - http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/cliff-richard-love-songs.html

he's pretty evil in twin peaks

i don't have to be fair, i'm *right* (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

Cliff, disappointed the New York Morrissey show he was due to play at has been cancelled, has decided to play his own show there anyway on the same date June 21. It will be free of charge, with priority given to fans that had tickets for the cancelled gig. Nice move. Click link to see personal video message.

Cliff says let's get it on

OutdoorFish, Sunday, 15 June 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link

Hope he dedicates it to Kristeen and Morrissey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZir_Taizg

OutdoorFish, Monday, 16 June 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link

Nice disco bassline on that one.

That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:52 (nine years ago) link

seven months pass...

The coverage of a controversial police raid on the home of Sir Cliff Richard is nominated for a Royal Television Society award.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31053900

I mean, um...

Mark G, Friday, 30 January 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link


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