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Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb 14 October 1940) is a British pop Icon who has sold over 260 million records worldwide. With The Shadows he took the British pop scene by storm in the late 1950s and early 1960 s and over his amazing career he has become a fixture of the British entertainment world. This DVD gives you a real insight into the true story of Cliff Richard; learn who his inspirations were as a young musician, how he became known as Cliff Richard and how he went on to be the biggest selling singles artist the UK has ever seen as well as enjoying huge popular success as an actor in his own right. Featuring interviews with Sir Cliff and the likes of Brian May from Queen as well as performance footage of some of his greatest hits including We Say Yeah, Living Doll, Congratulations, Power to all our Friends, Miss You Nights, We Don t Talk Anymore, Carrie and Wired For Sound. The programme also includes highlights from his best loved films such as Summer Holiday and The Young Ones. Sir Cliff has amassed hundreds of gold and platinum discs and awards during his career; this also includes three Brit awards and two Ivor Novello awards. He has had more than 130 singles, albums and EPs make the UK Top 20 which is more than any other artist. He also holds the record (with Elvis Presley) as the only act to reach number 1 in the UK singles charts in all of its first six consecutive decades. This programme offers an incredible look at the rise of Sir Cliff Richard taking us on a journey from his roots and the initial launch of his career to arguably the pinnacle of his success in the 1980 s.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
This DVD of Cliff Richard is a 1982 Documentary made for Australian TV. Cliff himself went over specially to Australia to make it at the time. I don't think it was shown anywhere else, so it is unique to DVD. In fact it was officially released earlier this year on DVD in Australia for which I have a copy to review on this Amazon site.
Running for approx 45mins it crams alot from Cliff Richard's career from 1958-1982. It contains Cliff giving an account of his career being interview inter-sperse with film/tv footage as well as newsreels. But the main chunk of the DVD is large snipets from his music videos and films as well as a performance from Eurovision Song contest in 1973. All his famous hits are performed, some of which are Living Doll, Congratulations, Power To All Our Friends, Devil Woman, We Don't Talk Anymore and a very rare TV footage (Probally from Australian TV) of Cliff singing Take Me High.
Cliff's interviews are great! In one instance he describes what he might be doing when he is 60 or so for which his prediction is so correct! He is 42 years old in this documentary.
I really enjoyed this DVD. It kind of compliments the 1983 'The Video Connection' Video.
Forget the 'rare and unseen' DVD released. This 'The Story of Cliff Richard' DVD rocks!!
The picture format is the original 4:3 and the sound is in mono
The picture quality is great considering it was a TV program shown in Australia. They obviously use a master source.
The sound though in original TV mono sounds really great, slighty enhanced.
This DVD is a must for any Cliff fan. A must buy!
UPDATE: 1st October 2011
My copy of this UK DVD version arrived today and I viewed it. Compared to the official Australian release through OVATION DVD for which the review above is based on. This UK DVD version through IMC is inferior in picture quality alone. Apparently this UK version, the picture is cropped from top to bottom to give a widescreen presentation from the original 4:3 TV broadcast, thus detoriating the picture quality completely! with enhanced grain/pixels and loss of video quality look on clips like 'Congratulations' and 'Power to all our Friends'. The programme is complete and still entertaining to watch. If you can, try and get hold of the Australian DVD version released earlier this year; it's really cheap to purchase from abroad through various sites on the internet.
My five stars still remain for the programme content alone!!
Running for approx 45mins it crams alot from Cliff Richard's career from 1958-1982. It contains Cliff giving an account of his career being interview inter-sperse with film/tv footage as well as newsreels. But the main chunk of the DVD is large snipets from his music videos and films as well as a performance from Eurovision Song contest in 1973. All his famous hits are performed, some of which are Living Doll, Congratulations, Power To All Our Friends, Devil Woman, We Don't Talk Anymore and a very rare TV footage (Probally from Australian TV) of Cliff singing Take Me High.
Cliff's interviews are great! In one instance he describes what he might be doing when he is 60 or so for which his prediction is so correct! He is 42 years old in this documentary.
I really enjoyed this DVD. It kind of compliments the 1983 'The Video Connection' Video.
Forget the 'rare and unseen' DVD released. This 'The Story of Cliff Richard' DVD rocks!!
The picture format is the original 4:3 and the sound is in mono
The picture quality is great considering it was a TV program shown in Australia. They obviously use a master source.
The sound though in original TV mono sounds really great, slighty enhanced.
This DVD is a must for any Cliff fan. A must buy!
UPDATE: 1st October 2011
My copy of this UK DVD version arrived today and I viewed it. Compared to the official Australian release through OVATION DVD for which the review above is based on. This UK DVD version through IMC is inferior in picture quality alone. Apparently this UK version, the picture is cropped from top to bottom to give a widescreen presentation from the original 4:3 TV broadcast, thus detoriating the picture quality completely! with enhanced grain/pixels and loss of video quality look on clips like 'Congratulations' and 'Power to all our Friends'. The programme is complete and still entertaining to watch. If you can, try and get hold of the Australian DVD version released earlier this year; it's really cheap to purchase from abroad through various sites on the internet.
My five stars still remain for the programme content alone!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
MOST REGRETABLY THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST DVDS I'VE SEEN LATELY.
THE PICTURE AND SOUND QUALITY ARE REALLY BAD AND FOLLOWING LUKE73 ADVICE,(TODAY I RECEIVED THE BRITISH VERSION OF THE DVD)I ALREADY ORDERED THE AUSTRALIAN VERSION.
I'M SURE THAT CLIFF WILL HAVE A WORD OR TWO ABOUT THIS EDITION, WHEN HE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT IT!!!
THE PICTURE AND SOUND QUALITY ARE REALLY BAD AND FOLLOWING LUKE73 ADVICE,(TODAY I RECEIVED THE BRITISH VERSION OF THE DVD)I ALREADY ORDERED THE AUSTRALIAN VERSION.
I'M SURE THAT CLIFF WILL HAVE A WORD OR TWO ABOUT THIS EDITION, WHEN HE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT IT!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I have never viewed a worse quality dvd! I might even send it back!Only just got round to watching it as been to all Cliffs recent concerts and other stuff too ie dvd screening and signing.
As it was done in 1987 I dont think its anywhere near as good as the South Bank Show Series that was made into video.
Anyway just dont buy it - its not worth 7.99 which is what I paid !
As it was done in 1987 I dont think its anywhere near as good as the South Bank Show Series that was made into video.
Anyway just dont buy it - its not worth 7.99 which is what I paid !
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I would not recommend purchase of this product the quality is very poor and does not do the artist justice
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Unable to play this on my DVD player, only plays on multi regional players. Therefore Amazon need to put a note to this effect on their site. Read more
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