Nine Times Out of Ten

In the light of his subsequent career, it's often difficult to remember that when he started out, Cliff Richard was a bad-boy Rock'n'Roll singer whose slurred, semi-hiccuped vocals, lip-curling sneers and overtly sexy gyrations on TV's Oh Boy! Offended every adult within sight and/or earshot. Cliff was both sufficiently shrewd and ambitious to clean up his act early on, which is ultimately why he was able to grow and mature as an artist - and yet although his music has changed radically over the years, he's always evinced an affection for his R&R roots and he still often features medleys of his early hits in his live set. And those early hits really were something else.