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Cliff Richard

Cliff Richard was eight when his family came to Hertfordshire following independence in his birth country of India. At the age of 16 his father bought him a guitar and he joined the rush of British teenagers forming skiffle groups with makeshift instruments, going on to front one of Britain's first rock & roll groups, The Drifters. He wrote their first hit 'Move It' and was marketed as Britain's answer to Elvis. Other early hits included 'High Class Baby', 'Livin' Doll' and 'Travellin' Light', while his backing group The Drifters transmuted into The Shadows and Cliff adopted a so...