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I don’t know how many of my non-British readers or non-over the age of 40 readers are going to know who I’m talking about in this post, but here goes nothing. Sir Cliff Richard has notched up a top ten hit with his new single, Thank You For A Lifetime. Why is this news? Because it means he has had a top ten hit in every decade since the 1950s.
This week actually sees the fiftieth anniversary of Cliff’s first top ten hit, Move It, so it’s a fitting song and a fitting time to accomplish the feat of a top ten hit in the last six decades. It’s just a shame that the song is a pile of utter tripe.
Cliff Richard was actually quite good when he started out, and Move It is regarded as one of the first true British rock’n'roll classics. Unfortunately, Cliff went from music pioneer to a complete an utter dweeb when he converted to Christianity and started singing about Jesus rather than sex.
Cliff Richard isn’t actually alone in achieving this feat, sharing the record with Elvis Presley, even though he has been dead for 30 years. It’s a strange coincidence that the two share this in common as Cliff was regarded as the British Elvis when he started out in the late fifties.
Once religion took over as the dominant force in his life, his style of music changed somewhat and it’s now really only loved by fellow Christians and people who remember the hip-swinging Cliff of old. The average age of the audience at a Cliff concert must be pushing 90 these days.
The last song Cliff had in the top ten was The Millennium Prayer, an abortion of a song which coupled The Lord’s Prayer with Auld Lang Syne in a disgraceful attempt to cash in on the 1999/2000 celebrations. Unfortunately, it worked and the song hit number one in the charts in the run up to Christmas.
And now we have this new song, which you can hear below thanks to an embedded YouTube video. I’m not sure if this is the official video or not but it’s crap either way. Seriously, without taking anything away from Cliff’s achievement, I dare you to listen to Thank You For A Lifetime without laughing at least once.
Seriously, what the hell is that? Cheesy nonsense that’s what. But the fact it hit number three in the charts shows that Cliff Richard still has a lot of fans left even to this day. The others have all died of old age.
Well done Cliff, it’s a magnificent achievement even though I’ve never been a fan. Now kindly do us all a favour and stop abusing our ears with this rubbish! And if you’re gay, just come out an admit it. It’s not the 1950s any more and we don’t really give two hoots about musicians sexual orientation.
[Photo Source: the_moog at Flickr]
Two things about you Mr. Parrack: One, your gay; and two, you must be under the age of 35 and haven’t got a clue what good music is all about. There’s no doubt gays hate Cliff because they think he’s still in the closet. Whatever, it has nothing to do with his singing abilities. Which, I think at last count, has accounted for 70 top ten singles in Britain.
The unvarnished truth of the matter is, you folks under 35 and into this current hip-hop, rap era, are probably mad as hell because most radio stations around the world totally ignore this contemporary crap and instead focuses on the great music we all remember in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
I mean, when your generation elevates the likes of Justine Timberlake as the top of the class, you know how low the bar as been set. Justine with that boy-band voice is, however, typical of the talentless, non-descript vocalists you find on the air these days. So get over it Mr. Parrack and understand that Sir Cliff will be around forever as long as there is music on the radio.
paul
September 20, 2008
It should have reached the No. 1 spot! At the age of 69? who can beat that. I agree with Sir Cliff they may the have the no. 1 spot, for how long?
He always tries to give his fans and all the listener out there clean music and there are a lot of his fans who was led to Christianity because of his influence.
Does it mean having a male companion a person is gay? He would not do that at his very prime age. He knows the Bible cover to cover “God created man and woman to share holy matrimony”. There is no passages in the bible that permits gay or lesbian union, friendship may be, but other than that this wolrd is doom like in sodom and Gomorrah.
He is still full of surpirses. Cupid’s arrow may struck him at the age of 70. Marriage is not only for the young ones,
Advise to all! We should pray very, very hard for the end of times is very near. We should think and act good for our soul and for all mankind.