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Monday 19 December 2011

the old rings in the new

Click on the link below (not the photo)  to see Cliff Richard performing with the Shadows at the New Music Express Poll Winners Awards Concert (Wembley/Empire Pool) in 1964.

  CLIFF THE TOP SOLO STAR - British Pathe




The focus of this clip is on Cliff Richard and the Shadows, but if you look at other accounts and documentary footage of the NME concert that year it's clear that by 1964 his position in the Pop Firmament had been eclipsed by The Beatles.




     Witness the paradigm shift in 1964. It took mere months for the songwriter/performer to emerge as the driving force in Pop Musicit's the stuff that revolutions are made of.

     "Every Little Thing" The Beatles (December 1964):

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