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Sir Cliff Richard OBE, born Harry Rodger Webb is a pop singer, musician, actor and philanthropist, who has sold upwards of 250 million records worldwide, with 21 million singles in the UK alone.

Born at King George’s Hospital in Lucknow, India, to Rodger Oscar Webb, a catering contractor who serviced the Indian Railway, and Dorothy Marie Dazely. It was when he was eight that his family sailed to Tilbury, Essex, on the SS Ranchi. It wasn’t until he was 16 that his father bought him a guitar and he formed the Quintones vocal group in 1957. He later became the singer of a rock and roll group called the Drifters, which was also around the time that entrepreneur Harry Greatorex wanted this up and coming rock singer to adopt the stage name “Cliff” – a reference to the geological feature, suggesting “Rock”. Richard, his surname is a tribute to Little Richard.

With a new name, he recorded a song called “Move It” which reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart in 1958. John Lennon dubbed it as the first British rock record. They released follow-up singles such as “High Class Baby” and “Livin’ Lovin’ Doll”. It was the song “Living Doll” that became the first No. 1 single for the band. It was by this time that legendary guitarist Hank Marvin joined the line up. In the 1960’s Richard had a streak of 23 consecutive top ten UK hits from “A Voice in the Wilderness” to “The Minute You’re Gone” which is still a record that he holds to this day. It was also in the 60’s that he featured in the most films, such as The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, Wonderful Life, and Thunderbirds are GO.

He has won a number of awards to this day such as BRIT Awards for Best British male solo artist in 1977 and 1982, and an Ivor Novello in 1970 for Outstanding Services to Music.

In March 1966, Richard decided to give away at least a tenth of his income to charity. He states that two biblical principles have guided him how to use money, one of which is that money is the root of all evil and the other is to be good and responsible stewards of what was entrusted to us. He is also a supported of many other organisations such as “Tearfund”, a Christian charity, Alzheimer’s Research UK, and many more.

With a body of work that spans over five decades, releasing 42 studio albums, and 154 singles, in the UK, Cliff Richard is the most successful British male solo artist of all time. He is also the only artist to have achieved UK number one singles throughout five consecutive decades, in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

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I have always been a fan of Cliff Richard, but because his following is primarily in the United Kingdom, I never thought I would have the opportunity to see him play live.

Imagine my surprise when I found out he would be playing a show close to me when I was travelling overseas. I was so excited; I would finally get the chance to see one of my favorite acts live.

He did not disappoint either, the entire show was amazing. He played to a medium sized crowd that was just as in to the show as I was, the energy did not die down during the entire show. Cliff came out on the stage accompanied by a small backing band, and minimal lighting to the stage. Cliff had a wonderful stage presence and interacted with the crowd throughout the entire show. He sang some of his bigger songs like, Devil Woman and We Don’t Talk Anymore. He also played some of his lesser known songs like Do You Remember, Ocean Deep and The Young Ones.

I was blown away by his ability to put on such a great show; it lasted just over 2 hours. It was definitely worth the wait, and I hope I get to see him live again.

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There are few British artists in music history with a namesake as recognisable as Cliff Richard. The pop singer has sold over 250 million albums worldwide. Despite working through a career that has spanned over five decades and has reached the worlds of theatre and film he impressively continues to tour tirelessly in order to reach a fanbase that shows equal dedication for the live show.

It is not a tour similar to any of his fellow veteran artists, he has dismissed the opportunity to strip things back and enjoy a mellow evening of music. There is still a huge emphasis on showmanship as Cliff becomes the bandleader of the accompanying musicians as he stands proudly at centerstage and addresses the audience. He does not remain stationery for the remainder of the evening, constantly moving and keeping the crowd lively and energised. The likeable mannerisms and upbeat pop tunes leave everybody in great spirits and as he takes his final breathless bows, he has earned every round of applause here tonight.

Ja, har sett honom live många gånger, första gången 1965 i Hunnebostrands folkets park, då kom han tillsammans med The Shadows,.. Därefter har det blivit många många konserter senast 2018 i London, då han firade 60 år inom showbuissnes, en bra ko sert, men den bästa hittills var 2015,då ha. Fyllde 75 år,verkligen en oförglömlig konsert på Royal Albert Hall, den 14 oktober. Då var Olivia Newton John där och överraskade honom, m. Fl. Har sett honom både i Uk, Danmark och här i Sverige. Har varit en stor Cliff fan alltsedan han blev känd i Sverige 1958,.träffat honom några gånger tillsammans med andra fans,. Han har varit gäst i Bingolotto 2002,2003,och 2004.samt 1989 i Eddie Skoller show på TV i Göteborg, och i Malmö tv 1974 tror jag det var i progr 2 timmar jaaa, vi ett Gäng Cliff fans var där i studion live. Cliff fan for ever. Birgitta Karlsson i Uddevalla, 220105

I have been been a Cliff fan for many years (getting on for 60) I have lost count how many times i have seen Cliff in all that time. I have met him more than once.He is a true gentleman and he loves his fans as much as we love him. Cliff will always give more than a 100%.I wish i could be full of energy like he is. I will always go to see him even knowing i will suffer terrible pain just sitting watching as i have a damaged Spine after five separate car accidents(NOT MY FAULT) Cliff is the only person i would go to see knowing i am going to be in agonising pain for a few days until my Medication knocks me outfor a few days.I will always be in pain but For Cliff I Am Willing To Be In Agony. Love him to bits Always and Forever xx xx xx

Ever since I first saw him on TV years and years ago - I think the programme was called "Oh Boy" he was wearing a white suit and tie with a black shirt - I've been a firm fan. To see him live on stage has been my ambition for over 50 years and when I got tickets for Scarborough I was thrilled at the prospect. He didn't disappoint, he danced about the stage like a teenager - where does all that energy come from - sang all the old familiar songs, and interacted with the audience like the true professional he is. His voice hadn't lost anything through the years, he was just as good as he ever was. The ticket price was worth every penny.......love you Cliff

Excellent concert.

I would have like to have been given an indication of the timings. Weather was amazing for an outside venue BUT we would have remained outside the enclosure until nearer the start time had we known- we were in hot sun for hours, we could have sat in the shade for a while.

Also intervals , we could have been told how long.

Drinks - silly prices £5 for 330cl cider, part of which spilled as the girl opened it! Pimms £6.50 for a can.

Long walk across a field of long grass , hard for less able, and no lights after the concert.

BUT, Cliff was as good as ever and also all supporting people.

Looking forward to the next one.

A lifelong fan of Cliff I couldn't wait to see the show.

Having watched live shows from the 60s through to the 90s I was anticipating the format and content of the show with great excitement.

It was absolutely fabulous!!!!!!

From the start right through to the end as Cliff performed with true professionalism all of my favourites and many of his hits across the decades.

Left on a high with the melodies in my head still running all day today.

Don't miss this opportunity to listen to a masterclass performance.

It will stay with me forever!

Great show lighting spectacular. Loved the concept of this tour going back through the years from the time he first came onto the scene. It was great to hear him sing all his old hits and he also did a great job with other singers songs, a truly exceptional singer. Loved every minute of the show and could of sat through it all again. Roll on the next one.

An awesome experience, Cliff Richard presented a fantastic show, giving his all throughout... Never disappoints and always great value. Cliff always delivers an exceptional and memorable performance.

Such a professional with great dedication to his industry.

Cliff was really on form my sons bought me the tickets for my 60th birthday .the best present I could have got even my husband had to admit he was good .I first went to see cliff and the shadows at the a.b.c hull i was about 6.

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Sir Cliff Richard Announces THE BLUE SAPPHIRE 2023 Tour Celebrating His 65th Anniversary

Tickets go on general sale Friday 28th October at 9am.

Next year marks the 65th anniversary of one of Britain's all-time greatest hit makers and icons. Celebrating 8 decades in the industry, Cliff Richard has announced a string of shows across London, Blackpool and Glasgow. Tickets go on general sale Friday 28th October at 9am via LiveNation.co.uk . In 65 years, Sir Cliff Richard has become a British Icon and national treasure, highlights are too numerous to mention from successful films, musicals, television shows and most notably his music career. Amassing several gold and platinum records, well over 250 million records sales worldwide, 14 number-one singles, a colossal 96 Top 20 hits, 7 number-one albums and a string of Brit and Ivor Novello awards to his name. As well as being one of the top-selling singles artists of all time, Cliff's proudest accolade is that he holds the official chart record for becoming the first artist to ever achieve a Top 5 album in eight consecutive decades. Cliff is indisputably Britain's all-time greatest hit-maker and pop star Cliff Richard will be bringing a selection from his huge catalogue of hits back to the stage for this celebration.

THE BLUE SAPPHIRE TOUR 2023

Tickets go on general sale Friday 28th October at 9am via LiveNation.co.uk Tuesday 7th November, London, U.K., Eventim Apollo Wednesday 8th November, London, U.K., Eventim Apollo Friday 10th November, London, U.K., Eventim Apollo Saturday 11th November, London, U.K., Eventim Apollo Tuesday 14th November, Blackpool, U.K., The Blackpool Opera House Friday 17th November, Glasgow, U.K., SEC Armadillo

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Cliff's Knighthood, bestowed in the 1995 Birthday Honours for his tireless charity work, was the first such to be given to a pop star. His practical support of so many good causes reflects the reality of his deep Christian commitment, which began in the mid-1960's, and which, despite the media critics who claimed it was a passing fad or a publicity gimmick, has been the motivating force in his life ever since. Cliff was honoured to be one of the celebrities to participate in the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Pageant in London on the bus representing the 1950's. Cliff's The Great 80 Tour to celebrate his 80th Birthday was postponed due to the Covid pandemic but was able to go ahead a year later in 2021 playing to sell-out venues and was also screened live to cinemas worldwide. Cliff's latest album "Christmas with Cliff" is released on 25th November 2022.

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Celebrating the 65th anniversary of one of Britain’s all-time greatest hit makers and icons, Cliff Richard’s anticipated Blue Sapphire Tour is set to dazzle the silver screen in this special cinema event, recorded from London’s Hammersmith Eventim Apollo.

Across his illustrious and unrivalled 8-decade career spanning stage and screen, Sir Cliff Richard has become a British icon and cultural treasure, amassing many gold and platinum records, well over 250 million records sales worldwide, 14 number-one singles, a colossal 96 Top 20 hits, 7 number-one albums and a string of Brit and Ivor Novello awards to his name. Sir Cliff will be bringing a selection from his huge catalogue of hits back to the stage for this monumental celebration in cinemas nationwide, including “Move It”, “Wired for Sound”, “Saviours Day” and “The Young Ones”.

This special presentation also includes bonus footage exclusive to cinemas.

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Middle England Gospel: Cliff Richard At Hammersmith Apollo Fergal Kinney , November 13th, 2023 12:43

As the veteran singer celebrates 65 years in the music industry, Fergal Kinney looks at what pop's Bachelor Boy can tell us about an ageing population and British spirituality.

Underneath the Hammersmith Flyover, parked in single file down a busy street and flanked outside the Apollo, there are coaches booked in package deals from Essex towns. Clacton and Colchester, Chelmsford and Brentwood, Benfleet and Thurrock. Tonight we may be geographically in London, but psychically we are somewhere altogether different. Whilst the concert is in the capital, its audience more closely resembles parts of the UK popular with people of retirement age. Cliff Richard: The Blue Sapphire Tour is a short run of dates – six nights here with stop offs at Blackpool and Glasgow – to mark 65 years of the singer’s recording career.

When taken seriously as a musical figure, rather than just a celebrity or curio, Richard’s musical reputation rests on what he achieved in the white hot aftermath of his first single ‘Move It’, and in the 21st century he has been rightly reappraised as perhaps the most important early British rock and roller. But what has he been for the rest of the time? A contrarian take makes sense – straight edge pioneer, outsider artist and queer icon all at once – but I don’t know if this gets to the truth of an artist whose singles chart success is eclipsed only by Elvis and The Beatles. He remains pop’s longest serving enigma, whose central mysteries only become more oblique as his historical context disappears.

When Richard takes to the stage, it’s for a spirited rendition of ‘The Young Ones’. Dressed in a dark glitter shirt tucked into leather-effect trousers and glitter trainers, Richard moves with an energy that lays waste to his 83 years. Performing with a six piece band, the minimal staging is classy and free of video screen. Up in the cheap seats, the audience are amiable without being easy. They need to be won over, unlike the front few rows who sway and wave tinsel from the off. During early hits like the prophetic, waltzing ‘Bachelor Boy’ or the utterly icky ‘Living Doll’, Richard sings flanked by guitarists, performing the neatly coordinated side steps that were the signature of The Shadows, designed to send the pop kids of the late 1950s and early 60s insane. But hysteria and heightened emotion is not the mood of tonight, which instead sustains a careful temper of chaste bonhomie. The single most important thing to understand about this show is that, where for other performers the introduction of a prized hit might traditionally elicit cheers, here the sound the audience makes time and time again is the bright cooing sound that people make over cute images of young children or the recollection of a treasured memory.

This is a period of heightened activity for the singer. The recently released album Cliff With Strings , with its almost jaw-droppingly literal artwork , came a week after his book A Headful Of Music , a personal journey through Richards’ favourite songs (including his own) with an engaging foreword by Saint Etienne founder and music journalist Bob Stanley. The Blue Sapphire tour will also be broadcast into cinemas across the UK later this month. Because of that, on this tour Richard is doing things a little differently. He is joined on stage by Iain Dale, the conservative LBC broadcaster and political book publisher, who leads him in a sit-down chat pitched somewhere between end of the pier revue and one of the chummier celebrity podcasts. “Your voice has actually got stronger with age, not weaker,” posits Dale, framing this as if it’s a question. In its only reference of the night, a question about Elton John leads Richard to refer to what he terms “my terrible time with the BBC.” This is greeted by an overwhelming chorus of boos. “Elton called me,” says Richard, “and I can’t repeat what he said.” Then, he does: “take them by the throat.” In 2014, Richard’s home was raided by police over a sexual abuse claim. He was never arrested or charged and the case was discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service on the grounds of insufficient evidence, which was upheld under review. The BBC was criticised for its coverage of the incident. Speaking to the House Of Lords, Richard said that he will be “forever tainted” by the accusations and that he will never regain the respect and confidence lost by the investigation. Richard left the UK, and now – as well as the Barbados home where he has hosted the likes of Tony Blair and Captain Tom Moore – his main residence is in New York, where he enjoys luxury and relative anonymity on the Upper East Side. “I walk around everywhere, I do my own shopping,” says Richard tonight. He tells Dale a joke about being mistaken for Keith Richards, which he has been telling a version of for longer than I have been alive. The format mostly works, and the audience are hushed and engaged to hear The Cliff Richard Story as he tells it.

The problem with The Cliff Richard Story, though, is that it’s usually him doing the telling. Richard’s life is also fascinating in ways that he tends not to want to reckon with, or at the very least downplay. He was born Harry Rodger Webb in 1940 in Lucknow in northern India, which was at the time part of the British Empire. The Webbs – as historian Andrew Hickey details in his A History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast episode on Richard – were a fairly standard British family in India, which is to say that they enjoyed the benefits of exploitation, living in luxury and and using servant labour. After the partition of India in 1947, their position newly unsustainable, the Webbs relocated to the United Kingdom, moving from luxury to a cramped single room in a three bedroom house in Surrey. With his dark complexion and Anglo-Indian accent, the young Webb was ridiculed and abused by other children who thought him Indian born. How might the immediate and shocking loss of status have affected the boy? The Webbs were saved by the welfare state when the family were moved into a council flat in Cheshunt in 1950. Walk around there today, and between the overground station and Cheshunt Park is Cliff Richard Court, a retirement estate.

Though the band tonight run the gamut from thrusting early rock and roll to widescreen MOR pop, it’s a performance of ‘Move It’ that feels separate and distinct. The younger of his two guitarists, with a long swooping fringe, does a remarkable job of capturing the tinny crystalline slap of the early Sun recordings that the single was designed to imitate. Richard seems to feel the same, facing the band as it ends and saying that – even now, 65 years since its release – he still thinks it’s a great rock and roll song. The whole concept of Cliff Richard is bound up in ‘Move It’. The single most important moment of his career was his first performance of the song, as well as ‘High Class Baby’, on the TV programme Oh Boy , the Saturday evening show, which ran across 1958 and 59, provided a crucial going overground moment for rock and roll in the UK.

Jack Good, the visionary and charismatic TV impresario behind Oh Boy , used techniques he had picked up from Shakespearean productions and pop psychology to create a dramatic visual language for pop, whose influence can be felt in almost all televised music performance today. He worked extensively with Richard before the performance, dictating every hand movement and step. “Unless he permitted it, you couldn’t do it,” said Richard in a 2008 interview, “I’ve said many times that it was Jack who created the beginnings of Cliff Richard.”

That’s a funny way to talk about your own name and identity. The eighteen-year-old had already adopted his stage name, but you can imagine during those rehearsals – as Jack Good moulded and sculpted a pop star from almost nothing – that Harry Webb just transcended to the same strange limbo where resides Paul Hewson, Stefani Germanotta or Robert Zimmerman. Tonight, Richard’s repertoire of wiggles, claps, thrusts and steps have deviated only a little from that 1958 performance. The vaulting distance between its original context and now also provides no small element of camp during the performance; there’s a lot of hands and hips. Sometimes this is fulsome enough to warrant a round of applause, and I am surprised to find myself clapping when the singer completes a slow motion pirouette.

One song is introduced as being recorded at EMI studios. “Now we all know about Abbey Road,” jokes Richard, “because The Beatles keep bleating on about it.” There are small pockets of pantomime boos across the auditorium. “And that’s because we bleated on about it! Everyone thinks that The Beatles owned Abbey Road, but I rented it to them.” Cliff’s antipathy towards The Beatles has become a theme of his late public appearances, like last year’s Cliff At Christmas BBC special which involved the singer making those same points whilst interviewed by Sarah Cox at Abbey Road Studios, or last week on BBC Breakfast where he chided the band for their use of “artificial insemination” to record ‘Now And Then’. Why? The Beatles, as they broke nationally in 1963, were a punkish rejection of the showbizzy orthodoxies that – by that point – Richard represented more than most. John Lennon’s quote that “before [‘Move It’] there had been nothing, just nothing at all” is well documented, but we have all fallen in love with the shock and promise of a debut single only to quickly cringe at what the act gestates into. “We’ve always hated him,” said John Lennon in 1963, “he was everything we hated in pop.” The first piece of journalism about The Beatles, by Bob Wooler in 1961, contrasts them to a rock and roll scene that “had been emasculated by figures like Cliff Richard.” Lennon understood this. “Every group had a lead singer in a pink jacket singing Cliff Richard-type songs,” he said in another interview, “we were the only group that didn’t.”

Though Cliff Richard was able to find remarkable success in every decade until the millennium with only subtle degrees of reinvention, I’m not sure his public image ever won back what was lost in 1963. Not, though, that it matters to this audience. Apart from a lone rockabilly couple in their 30s, the audience appears to be staunchly the generation who lived through that decade. “The thing about Cliff is,” explains an old boy from Canvey Island who I chat with during the half-time interval, “he’s a very likeable guy.” And this is true. On stage, Richard is a parody of politeness. Generous and self-deprecating, he is the only singer I have ever seen credit the songwriter of almost every track during the show.

Of course, Richard’s defining late period hit was a co-write with the Gospels: ‘The Millennium Prayer.’ English pop music has traditionally had far less of a relationship with religion than that of the US, but Richard’s Christmas hits serve as outliers for their Middle England spiritual status. For Richard’s audience, those values are explicitly part of his appeal. “Middle England wants something that’s theirs that’s not afraid to say that we’re a country that comes with a Christian background. Something spiritual,” explained Richard in 1999. Middle England is one of those terms that sounds as though it has been around forever, but was in fact popularly introduced by Margaret Thatcher as an approximation of Richard Nixon’s silent majority. Richard tonight reminds us that the song’s genesis was as part of a campaign for the Marks And Spencer charity Children’s Promise. EMI wouldn’t release it. Richard took it to an independent label, but DJs wouldn’t play it. Richard tonight recalls speaking to an unnamed northern DJ who refused to play the track. “I said to him, you are a servant of the people,” he smiles, “and this is what people want.” There is more booing. “We lost that battle. But you won it for those children that Marks and Spencer were catering for.” The song was number one for three weeks in 1999.

Richard flatters his audience by telling them that he chose the early November booking so that he could be the very first to wish them a happy Christmas. This means ‘Mistletoe And Wine’, the Thatcher-era schlager which began life as a socialist pub chant in a forgotten 1976 musical . Richard sheared the song of its class war undertones, turned it into Middle England gospel and created a festive standard. There’s also ‘Saviour’s Day’, which is unexpectedly rousing; all big 80s gated drums, rhythms you can just about sway to, and its pan pipe riff conjuring the vague and unexpected folkishness you might associate with a butter advert. Its lyrics conjure a festive idyll of young people returning home from the big cities to raise their glasses with the elderly. Where the big, enduring 1970s Christmas singles were stomping singalongs for Christmas Eve last orders, Richard’s offerings are surprisingly gentlemanly homilies to restrained cheer.

There’s also time for another festive tradition: the remembrance of absent friends. “People have to die,” says Richard, during some unusually morbid stage patter. “We all have to die. But if we have people like Olivia Newton-John, you know, they never really die.” There is huge applause, and the introduction of mortality is unusually poignant in this older audience.

65 years ago, when Cliff Richard’s recording career began, the mid 20th century baby boom meant that his pop records had a new and ready audience of young people, suddenly economically buoyant with flexible production-line employment and given stability by the new peace. Now, for the first time in the UK, last year’s census showed that there were more over 65s in the UK than there are children. One in five people in England and Wales are over Blue Sapphire age. Some of this can feel visible in the culture: there is a new Beatles song at the top of the charts, a new Rolling Stones album on the shelves and a Martin Scorsese movie in the cinemas. Speaking to Dale, Richard still talks as though he’s at the start of a twenty-year plan, and talks warmly about changes in BBC policy that are beginning to mean airplay for people like him or Elton John in their autumn years. There is a moment of real showbiz drama when Iain Dale reads out the freshly announced UK album charts live on stage. Cliff With Strings ? In at number five. Cliff Richard has now had top five albums in eight consecutive decades. The singer is pleased, to be sure, but he looks as though he is already plotting the next two: even suggesting his willingness to work with Taylor Swift and “rappers” to finally break America.

Creativity arriving at any point in life should be welcomed and encouraged, but tonight, pop’s cult of youth is oddly more present at a Cliff Richard concert than it ought to be. His impish performance of teenagerdom can land as a kind of arrested development. On stage, Richard tells us that he works hard to ensure each track sounds like the album. Which it does, often with searing precision as on a terrific ‘Wired For Sound’, a song where a noted sexual ambivalence comes a distant second to the ecstatic potentials of cables, wires, car radios, small speakers and tall speakers – yet there is an avoidance of late style. There is no Blackstar for Sir Cliff.

Unexpectedly, the show’s sole moment of high drama comes during the encore, when the front six or seven rows simultaneously – what signal did they hear? – stand up and rush to the edge of the stage. Many are waving small flags, generally of Commonwealth nations like Canada or Australia. “I don’t like the word love,” says Richard – Middle England isn’t big on hugs and kisses – “but that’s what I feel here tonight.” He says that he and his audience have always been a team. “To me, that’s second only to the knighthood.” When the show does end, instead of the usual bottleneck into Hammersmith underground it’s orderly meeting points for the coach drive home.

As I leave, it is hard to comprehend the 65 years summed up in tonight’s show. Such is the singer’s tight proximity to the second Elizabethan age, we won’t really know the Queen is dead – that we definitely have left the 20th century – until the Cliff Richard era passes.

Cliff Richard's new album Cliff With Strings – My Kinda Life is out now via Rhino. The Blue Sapphire Tour will be screened in UK cinemas on November 25 and 26

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Cliff Richard: The Blue Sapphire Tour (Live 2023) – DVD

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A vibrant set packed with hits from across his illustrious and unrivalled 8-decade career

2023 marked the 65th anniversary of Sir Cliff Richard’s career. To celebrate, Cliff Richard performs a vibrant set packed with hits from across his illustrious and unrivalled 8-decade career, including Move It, Wired For Sound, The Young Ones and many more.

Filmed live at the London Eventim Apollo, this release includes Sir Tim Rice interviewing Sir Cliff Richard on stage.

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The trains and stations of the Moscow Metro

2 Comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in Cities , Travel , Video

The Moscow Metro is the third most intensive subway system in the world after Tokyo and Seoul subways. The first line was opened on May 15, 1935. Since 1955, the metro has the name of V.I. Lenin.

The system consists of 12 lines with a total length of 305.7 km. Forty four stations are recognized cultural heritage. The largest passenger traffic is in rush hours from 8:00 to 9:00 and from 18:00 to 19:00.

Cellular communication is available on most of the stations of the Moscow Metro. In March 2012, a free Wi-Fi appeared in the Circle Line train. The Moscow Metro is open to passengers from 5:20 to 01:00. The average interval between trains is 2.5 minutes.

The fare is paid by using contactless tickets and contactless smart cards, the passes to the stations are controlled by automatic turnstiles. Ticket offices and ticket vending machines can be found in station vestibules.

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Tomás · August 27, 2012 at 11:34 pm

The Moscow metro stations are the best That I know, cars do not.

Alberto Calvo · September 25, 2016 at 8:57 pm

Great videos! Moscow Metro is just spectacular. I actually visited Moscow myself quite recently and wrote a post about my top 7 stations, please check it out and let me know what you think! :)

http://www.arwtravels.com/blog/moscow-metro-top-7-stations-you-cant-miss

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Best things to see and do in Moscow

Moscow is the capital of Russia and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Asia. It’s rich and complex history is a constant reminder of its strategic position between Europe and Asia and makes it one of the cities you should visit once in your life. In terms of the many iconic landmarks, the delicious cuisine, and the characteristic, colorful architecture it has, Moscow is full of surprises for first-timers and seasoned travelers. Apart from the main attractions, it has like the Kremlin or Red Square, Moscow has many hidden gems for you to discover on your free walking tour with your local guide. 

On any of the free guided tours we offer in Moscow , you will be able to find a selection of many tours which are available in different languages and at different times of day, like the morning, afternoon, and evening. Since Moscow is such a large metropolis, getting your bearings by doing a guruwalk with a local guide who will show you all Moscow’s hidden gems is a great idea. This way you get to learn as much as possible about the local culture and way of life. A trip to Moscow wouldn't be complete without visiting iconic places like St Basil’s Cathedral, Lenin’s Mausoleum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, or the State Historical Museum, before getting some fresh air at Gorky Park, the medieval church of Kolomenskoye, or shopping at Izmailovsky Market. Don’t miss visiting the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Bolshoi Theater, or checking out the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. 

Many travelers have left their r eviews and opinions about the local guides , gurus, and the routes they walked. If you have any questions about the routes or what is included in the tour, check out their opinions. 

Free walking tour near Moscow

Others cities to visit after moscow, where are you traveling to.