Cliff Richard on Elvis Presley: ‘He sounded like he had secrets you needed to learn’
In an extract from his new memoir A Head Full of Music, Cliff Richard recalls his first encounter with the King – and how he fell for his music, style and way of being
December 2022
Mistletoe and grime: Stormzy beats Cliff Richard’s Christmas album to No 1
This Is What I Mean surges past Christmas With Cliff to clinch London rapper’s third successive chart-topper
November 2022
Cliff Richard and Stormzy compete for No 1 in UK albums chart
BBC Radio to celebrate life of Bernard Cribbins over Christmas
September 2022
Joy to the world: Cliff Richard to release new Christmas album
Christmas With Cliff will be singer’s first festive season album release for almost two decades
August 2022
TV review
The Accused: National Treasures on Trial review – a slight analysis of celebs’ Operation Yewtree distress
TV tonight
TV tonight: Cliff Richard, Neil Fox and Paul Gambaccini on Operation Yewtree
April 2022
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
December 2021
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
November 2021
What should be top of the Cop26 pop charts
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
October 2021
Alan Hawkshaw obituary
Composer who wrote the theme tunes for Channel 4 News and Grange Hill, and the music to accompany the Countdown clock
August 2021
Pass notes
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...
June 2021
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
April 2021
The music essay
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
December 2020
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
November 2020
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
June 2020
The 100 greatest UK No 1 singles
'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
April 2020
Bill Martin obituary
Co-writer of the songs Puppet on a String and Congratulations who also came up with hits for Cilla Black and the Bay City Rollers
September 2019
BBC pays out £2m in legal costs to Sir Cliff Richard
Singer last year won landmark case after BBC used helicopter to film police raid on his home
July 2019
Cliff Richard launches sex offence anonymity campaign after own experience - video
Cliff Richard joined forces with Paul Gambaccini to demand that those people accused of sexual offences are given anonymity until they are charged
