In doing so, the Official Charts Company can confirm that the chart icon who celebrated his 80 th birthday in October, set a new all-time Official Chart record by becoming the first artist ever to score a Top 5 album in eight consecutive decades. The track was released 26th November 2021.Ĭliff Richard breaks all-time Official Albums Chart record - with Music…The Air That I Breathe. We ended 2021 at #1 in the music chart – a splendid result!Ĭliff and Collabro have recorded a new version of Mistletoe & Wine, which is availble now as a CD or digitally via this link. Thank you all for buying “The Great 80 Tour” DVD. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. The 2023 official calendars are available to pre-order from Ĭliff loved participating in the Platinum Jubilee Pageant on Sunday 5 th June. Now & Then How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Pre-Order Now! See the Latest Album page for more details.Ĭliff has spoken of the passing of his beloved friend Dame Olivia Newton-John on his official Facebook account. Sir Cliff would never contact fans personally via social media.Ĭliff's first Christmas album in almost 20 years! Christmas with Cliff will be released on 25 November 2022. The only official online accounts are the and. Any account on Twitter or Instagram using his name is not official, is not related to Cliff and are not Cliff’s thoughts. PLEASE NOTE, Cliff has never had a Twitter account and does not Tweet or use Instagram. One can't help feeling that with so much material already out there, this was a missed opportunity by UMTV, a mainstream TV advertising company, but their raison d’être was to sell lots of CDs, not educate the masses about an artist whose main body of work remains mostly overlooked.It has come to our attention that there are people from time to time purporting to be Sir Cliff on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook who have befriended fans and in some cases then tried to trick them into handing over money. For four of the brightest and most successful women from Shelby, Indiana, the summer of 1970 was the year they turned 12, discovered what boys looked like naked and made a friendship pact that has lasted into adulthood. Long since regarded more as a serious album artist, de Burgh had not had an entry in the singles chart in the 21st century up to the release of Now and Then, and had indeed become somewhat of an experimental rock act, as he showed on his previous studio album to this, The Storyman, and this side of de Burgh is given space in the shape of "Much More Than This," "One World," "Sailing Away," and "Borderline," songs that either tell a story or actually mean something. Now and Then (DVD) Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and Melanie Griffith star in this nostalgic story of growing up in America. This was a shame, for surely there was a market for people to buy a collection of Chris de Burgh songs beyond the well-worn more famous and overworked ones from the late '80s - although in fairness, this approach had already been covered by A&M on the compilation Best Moves, a long-forgotten gem from 1981, and on the long-deleted Telstar TV album The Very Best Of from 1984. ![]() Indeed, from his first six albums of the 1970s and early '80s before his chart breakthrough, there were only two tracks in total, "A Spaceman Came Travelling" from Spanish Train & Other Stories (included presumably because it had become such a Christmas standard) and the final track, "High on Emotion" from Man on the Line, and nothing at all from Far Beyond These Castle Walls, At the End of a Perfect Day, Crusader, or Eastern Wind. However, no fewer than 11 of the 20 tracks here were on his previously most successful greatest-hits compilation, Spark to a Flame, and Now and Then was - as usually seemed to be the case with de Burgh compilations - very under-represented with tracks from his early career. So is Chris de Burgh all about soft rock and schmaltzy ballads like "Missing You" and "The Lady in Red," or is there something more to his music? Admittedly, his two biggest hit singles (and only Top Ten singles) are placed at tracks two and three on this album, Now and Then, a 2008 compilation of his work through the ages, but the true statement of intent regarding what the man is really about arrives with the opening track, "Don't Pay the Ferryman," his first ever hit that didn't even reach the Top 40 but has become a standard art rock classic that possibly graces adult radio in the 21st century more often than his bigger successes.
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