Cliff Richard

From a Distance: the Event / (Can) Cliff Richard

Import only DVD (NTSC /Region 0). On June 16 & 17, 1989, Cliff Richard played what he later called the two most challenging live shows of his career to his then largest audience ever. Originally planned as a one-off show for the Friday evening another show was quickly added for the following evening after tickets for the first show sold out in three hours! Cliff spent six weeks in rehearsal at Shepperton Studios, working with 90 artists preparing for this extravaganza which would see him singing 45 songs, making five costume changes and moving in style from Fifties high school hop to Eighties pop. The first part of the event was based on the TV show 'Oh Boy!' which had given Cliff his first national television exposure in 1958. The 'Oh Boy!' shows' two resident vocal groups - the Dallas Boys and Vernons Girls who reformed specially for the occasion, and the show's original host, Jimmy Henney, made the opening announcement with 'this is how it all began thirty years ago.' The 'Oh Boy' band played the opening chords of Buddy Holly's 'Oh Boy', Cliff appeared on stage wearing a replica of the outfit he wore the first time he sang 'Move It' on stage in October 1958, when he was one of the supporting acts on the Kalin Twins UK tour from America. The Kalin Twins also joined Cliff on stage for the first time since their chart topping heyday, thirty years previously. Cliff's solo set featured a mix of familiar hits & new recordings from his then current album 'Stronger' Tony Meehan and Jet Harris original Shadows members joined Cliff on stage. The finale - the most emotional point of the show for Cliff - came with 'From A Distance'. EMI. 2005.