Cliff Richard

Ed Sheeran and Basil Brush to entertain at Queen’s platinum jubilee pageant

Aerial artist spectacle is planned alongside performers including Cliff Richard and Bill Bailey

Caroline Davies

26, Apr, 2022 @12:07 PM

Sir Cliff Richard is still king of the music calendar charts

The 81-year-old singer beat Elvis, Harry Styles and Kylie Minogue but is no longer in the top 10 for overall sales

30, Dec, 2021 @1:10 PM

What should be top of the Cop26 pop charts | Letters

Letters: Mike Pender champions Bob Dylan; Peter Higginbotham proposes Cliff Richard; Danny Sullivan supports Tom Paxton; Rob Hodgson suggests John Mayall; and Toby Wood recommends Louis Armstrong

Letters

02, Nov, 2021 @6:06 PM

Alan Hawkshaw obituary

Composer who wrote the theme tunes for Channel 4 News and Grange Hill, and the music to accompany the Countdown clock

Spencer Leigh

25, Oct, 2021 @4:57 PM

Message in a wine bottle: how Sting got stung when he bought a vineyard

The singer and his wife, Trudie Styler, bought an Italian wine-producing estate after being given a glass of plonk by the owner. There was just one problem...

18, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM

UK pop pilgrimages: from Paul McCartney’s Kintyre to Giggs’s Peckham

With festivals looking thin on the ground, why not visit the places that have inspired some of our best songs and greatest bands, including Pulp, the Undertones and … Cliff Richard

Malcolm Jack, Eamonn Forde, Sam Davies, Laura Snapes, Ian Gittins, Daniel Dylan Wray

25, Jun, 2021 @9:30 AM

The Who Sell Out: still a searing satire on pop’s commercial breakdown

Filled with product placement and advertising, the band’s newly reissued 1967 album put the pop in pop art, by showing how closely music was entwined with capital

Alexis Petridis

26, Apr, 2021 @10:03 AM

I'll never get over police raid, says castaway Cliff Richard

Sixty years after he first appeared on Desert Island Discs, the singer returns to talk about suing the BBC and why he never married

Vanessa Thorpe

20, Dec, 2020 @7:14 AM

Cliff Richard becomes first artist to reach UK Top 5 across eight decades

Music ... The Air That I Breathe reaches No 3 this week – 61 years after the singer’s first chart album

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

06, Nov, 2020 @6:00 PM

'It reminded me I should not go quietly': readers' favourite UK No 1s

Guardian readers fill in the blanks in our countdown of the greatest UK No 1s of all time, with entries from Dusty Springfield to Desmond Dekker, Jimi Hendrix to Joe Dolce

Guardian readers

10, Jun, 2020 @9:00 AM