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‘How am I still going?’: the everlasting appeal of Cliff Richard

‘How am I still going?’: the everlasting appeal of Cliff Richard

Despite being exiled from pop’s mainstream, he’s outlasted his contemporaries and is still selling out big rooms – what’s the secret to the national institution’s success? At 85, Sir Cliff Richard is out on the road again. Last week, he wrapped up a run of shows in Australia and New Zealand. Tomorrow, the UK leg of his Can’t Stop Me Now tour opens in Cardiff, finishing at the Royal Albert Hall on 9 December. He was the artist who opened the British rock’n’roll era, with Move It in 1958, and after 67 years he is still selling out big rooms. To the uninitiated, Sir Cliff’s continued presence is at best a mystery, and at worst an affront to taste. That is to misunderstand him: Sir Cliff doesn’t operate in the music business – despite his gripes with it – so much as in the Cliff Richard business. When he disappeared from national radio, to his great distress, it was because he had long since ceased to operate in a world recognisable to the rest of pop. Continue reading...

‘How am I still going?’: the everlasting appeal of Cliff Richard

‘How am I still going?’: the everlasting appeal of Cliff Richard

Despite being exiled from pop’s mainstream, he’s outlasted his contemporaries and is still selling out big rooms – what’s the secret to the national institution’s success? At 85, Sir Cliff Richard is out on the road again. Last week, he wrapped up a run of shows in Australia and New Zealand. Tomorrow, the UK leg of his Can’t Stop Me Now tour opens in Cardiff, finishing at the Royal Albert Hall on 9 December. He was the artist who opened the British rock’n’roll era, with Move It in 1958, and after 67 years he is still selling out big rooms. To the uninitiated, Sir Cliff’s continued presence is at best a mystery, and at worst an affront to taste. That is to misunderstand him: Sir Cliff doesn’t operate in the music business – despite his gripes with it – so much as in the Cliff Richard business. When he disappeared from national radio, to his great distress, it was because he had long since ceased to operate in a world recognisable to the rest of pop. Continue reading...

Victoria Derbyshire had a little bit of context for Tory criticism of Rachel Reeves’ tax rises and more of this sort of thing please!

Victoria Derbyshire had a little bit of context for Tory criticism of Rachel Reeves’ tax rises and more of this sort of thing please!

No-one expected the vast majority of the media to do anything but savage Rachel Reeves’ budget and so it proved. The £26bn tax raising budget didn’t so much rinse the rich as dip their little toe in the water, but it’s a start we suppose. The Conservatives weren’t happy, obviously, which we mention only because […] The post Victoria Derbyshire had a little bit of context for Tory criticism of Rachel Reeves’ tax rises and more of this sort of thing please! appeared first on The Poke .

Victoria Derbyshire had a little bit of context for Tory criticism of Rachel Reeves’ tax rises and more of this sort of thing please!

Victoria Derbyshire had a little bit of context for Tory criticism of Rachel Reeves’ tax rises and more of this sort of thing please!

No-one expected the vast majority of the media to do anything but savage Rachel Reeves’ budget and so it proved. The £26bn tax raising budget didn’t so much rinse the rich as dip their little toe in the water, but it’s a start we suppose. The Conservatives weren’t happy, obviously, which we mention only because […] The post Victoria Derbyshire had a little bit of context for Tory criticism of Rachel Reeves’ tax rises and more of this sort of thing please! appeared first on The Poke .