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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: JJretroTONEGOD on June 10, 2008, 10:36:50 PM
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How did this man have so many hits? Is he better than Macca at singing? why is he always acting so politically correct? Is he human? has he ever slept with a woman?
from Ben. :P
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I am not a fan but credit to him for having a successful career.
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I dunno if this is an urban myth but, allegedly Mr Richards caused the bass player (Jet Harris) to leave the Shadows due to Cliffs relationship with said bass players wife.
A mate of mine was in the process of being taken to court by Cliff due to comments printed in the newspaper he was the editor of. It was in regards to Cliffs "friendship" with his (male) manager. Though in Cliffs defence he was gentlemanly about the whole thing and did state than an apology would be sufficient (he got the apology as it was considerably cheaper than the court case).
As for his music I have to say thai I still have a very soft spot for the 'sound' of his early hits up to about 65 (as in 1965 not his age) as they are so rich sounding.
Apart from that the "Devil Woman" story always makes me smile
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He slagged off the Beatles not so long ago.
And whatever you think about 'Wonderful Christmas Time', 'Mistletoe and Wine' and 'Millenium Prayer' are far, far, worse...
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If he really slagged off the Beatles, then he's gone up in my estimation.
The one thing you can say about him, is that he's not just sat about for the last X years!
Roo
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but don't get me wrong, he's not far above the bottom-feeders, sorry, Beatles...
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I'm with you on this one JJ.
Cliff Richards is a one man 40 year long eurovision song.
While he seems a decent bloke, the world would become a little lighter and sky a little bluer, breakfast would taste better and colours would be brighter if all his music were burned.
IMO, of course.
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OMG but surely as an influence of modern music, he should be revered? If it weren't for Cliff, we wouldn't have Meshuggah!
LOL
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i thought he was called cliff richard... :twisted:
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OMG but surely as an influence of modern music, he should be revered? If it weren't for Cliff, we wouldn't have Meshuggah!
Actually I'm pretty sure I hear some of the chorus melody to Living Doll played backwards in Straws Pulled at Random. Rip off!
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have you seen this?
(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7369/2006cgymno8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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My eyes tried to crawl into the back of my head :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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WHILE WE'RE AT IT - CAN WE HAVE A GO AT WESTLIFE, BOYZONE, TAKE THAT , SPICE GIRLS, GIRLS ALOUD, KYLIE, MADONNA ETC (and the list goes on into many hundreds)
For the record:
In the UK at least - Cliff did play an important role in the late 50s, as did Billy Fury, Joe Brown etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOnlG2DtySA
Cliff was at first seen as the British Elvis back in about 1958 - i know he seems completely saccharine by todays' standards but it wads important in it's day.
I believe Cliff bought the first Fender strat in the UK as well!
The Shadows as well had a huge effect on music and guitar playing as well, but nobody said you have to like them.
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The lords prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne with a mushroom cloud in the background.
That's all I think of when seeing Cliff - And I laugh every time.
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WHILE WE'RE AT IT - CAN WE HAVE A GO AT WESTLIFE, BOYZONE, TAKE THAT , SPICE GIRLS, GIRLS ALOUD, KYLIE, MADONNA ETC (and the list goes on into many hundreds)
Good idea :!:
They're all shitee.
Thanks for giving the opportunity to say that :D Its not said enough :twisted:
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i'm not too sure about cliff... but the shadows are great :D
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the shadows kicked ass.
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No Cliff = no The Shadows = no Apaches?
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...And half of the jokes in The Young Ones would be redundant.
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...And half of the jokes in The Young Ones would be redundant.
Now this is a very valid point :)
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Well like I said earlier, I am no fan of Cliff however he did move things on somewhat. His very early performances were very risque for the day
( they'd be laughingly tame today) though he was soon sucked up into the clean cut style that we know to today. Judging these guys by todays standards is doing them a great disservice. The world was a very different place when they kicked off. I would recommend a great book that some may find enjoyable. Written by Simon Napier-Bell it is called "Black Vinyl White Powder".
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I wonder who got the royalties off Millenium Prayer, anyway.
Always wanted to see the sleeve of it, like. "Words: Jesus, Music: Robert Burns".
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Cliffs not my cup of tea but the shadows did some great stuff and Hank Marvin does have a BKP after his tune and tone, he bought the first ever Strat in the UK too.
Cliff did have some stonkin lyrics as immortalised by 'Captain Morgan And His Hammond Organ' in Viz.
'Carrie doesn't live here, anymore. She used to have a room on the second floor. Carrie never left no for-war-ding address that was known to me, CARRIE!'
:lol:
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I wonder who got the royalties off Millenium Prayer, anyway.
Always wanted to see the sleeve of it, like. "Words: Jesus, Music: Robert Burns".
One of my customers gets money for it strangely enough or at least the credit!!
He arranged it and is known for other work in popular christian songwriting.
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'Carrie doesn't live here, anymore. She used to have a room on the second floor. Carrie never left no for-war-ding address that was known to me, CARRIE!'
:lol:
Carrie was a great song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eP7i9aswFM
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Impressive, J.
The whole Trad/Old arranged thing puzzles me a bit, I must admit. I've got a book of Irish Dance music at the house, a thousand some-odd ould jigs and reels that i periodically nick chunks out of for solos, riffs etc. Thing is, these tunes are all as old as tae, and I've always thought of redoing a few of them in a riock context, but stumbled over who to pay.
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I wonder who got the royalties off Millenium Prayer, anyway.
Always wanted to see the sleeve of it, like. "Words: Jesus, Music: Robert Burns".
Well, King Solomon never got a credit for the lyrics to 'Turn, Turn, Turn'...