Devil Woman broke that spell, soaring to No.6 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The wry title was particularly apposite in the US, where Cliff had teetered on the verge of stardom for years. Never let it be said that Cliff Richard doesn’t have a sense of irony: Devil Woman came from the 1976 album which changed his career path, I’m Nearly Famous. A beloved entry among the best Cliff Richard songs, The Young Ones was written by Sid Tepper and Roy C Bennett, who also wrote for Cliff’s original rock idol, Elvis, and Cliff never forgot how pivotal the song had been for him, inviting Bennett to perform it as a duet at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena in 2002.Ħ: Devil Woman (from ‘I’m Nearly Famous’, 1976)Įntranced Cliff. He appeared with the show’s cast members to sing Living Doll for Comic Relief in 1986. Though the use of the song appeared to be parodic, and the comedy was criticised for its violence – albeit slapstick – among other issues, Cliff took it sportingly. The song’s impact was so strong, it remained part of popular culture to the point where it was used for both the title and the theme tune for the BBC’s riotous “alternative sitcom” of the early 80s, starring Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson.
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Anticipation had built for it in the preceding months, because it had been featured in Cliff’s hit movie of the same title, and it entered the charts at No.1 in 1962 and stayed there for six weeks. The Young Ones was Cliff’s biggest-selling UK single. One thing’s for certain: Time Drags By record does not drag, all these years later.ħ: The Young Ones (from ‘The Young Ones’, 1961)Ĭlassic Cliff. Contemporary thinking might have you believe that The Shadows would have considered it an honour to have worked with the future guitar icon of Led Zeppelin, and perhaps they did, but at the time it was probably the other way around: Hank Marvin had been a hero of the teenage Page, and the session probably gave the brilliant young session player a thrill. In one of those unlikely combinations the pop world sometimes conjures up, the honking harmonica is blown by Jimmy Page. The song would have been assumed to be “beatnik” had it appeared a few years earlier, and Cliff’s vocal style is unusually tangy and suitably cynical here. Time Drags By finds him bored in a backwater, longing to get out.
Written by The Shadows for the final movie they made with Cliff, 1966’s Finders Keepers, this lazy-sounding acoustic ditty brings a different brand of Richard magic. 8: Time Drags By (from ‘Finders Keepers’, 1966)įolky Cliff.
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