Cliff

In the years after Elvis Presley but before the Beatles, Cliff Richard was the biggest thing in British rock & roll and in the years after the Beatles, he was never far from the top of the U.K. charts. Arriving in 1958, just a couple of years after skiffle swept across Britain, Richard was the first English singer to approximate the hip-shaking rebellion of American rock & roll with his 1958 debut single "Move It." A smash hit right out of the gate, "Move It" kicked off an astonishing five decades' worth of hits (his last time in the U.K. Top 10 was, as of this writing, in 2008, when "Thank You for a Lifetime" went to three).

On 14th October 1940, a star was born. 75 years to the day the birthday boy performed a very special concert at the iconic Royal Albert Hall to celebrate this momentous occasion…

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It's perhaps a little surprising that Cliff Richard never really had the same impact in the music scene on this side of the pond that he did in his native England. Richard has set untold records (no pun intended) in the British music industry, selling hundreds of millions of records and by some accounts becoming the biggest selling male artist in British history…

2010 reissue of this collection from the British Pop superstar. The Early Years features many alternative takes of his work with The Shadows and The Drifters.

For those who don't remember the EP format, the booklet provides a potted history. Suffice to say here that they only retained their popularity for a few years, and that while a lot of EP's were made up of tracks available on singles or albums, Cliff recorded tracks that appeared on EP's but not on LP's or singles. Some of those EP-only tracks may have been released previously on CD, but everything here is appearing on CD for the first time…