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The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as the Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and the Shadows, ranging from pop, rock, surf rock and ballads with a jazz influence. [2] The group, who were in the forefront of the UK beat-group boom, [ 3 ] were the first backing band to emerge as stars.
Cliff Richard's 1958 hit "Move It" is widely regarded as the first authentic British rock and roll record, and "laid the foundations" for the Beatles and Merseybeat music. [177] John Lennon reportedly said of Richard that before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
Richard's debut single "Move It", recorded with his equally successful backing band the Drifters (later renamed the Shadows) was written by original guitarist Ian Samwell. It was released in August 1958, and was the first British rock and roll hit to make the UK Singles Chart top ten, reaching number two and spending 17 weeks on the chart.
Reunited is a 2009 studio album by British pop singer Cliff Richard and his original backing band the Shadows.The album celebrates the 50th anniversary of Cliff's first recordings and performances with The Shadows, and is their first studio collaboration for forty years.
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is a 1964 pantomime cast album by Cliff Richard, the Shadows, the Norrie Paramor orchestra and other members of the pantomime cast. [1] [2] It is Richard's twelfth album.
Several other takes of "Dynamite" by Richard and the Shadows have also been released. A slightly faster version with a different backing and slightly altered lyrics was first released on the Dutch compilation Time to Rock! in 1962 and was later released as the B-side to a re-release of "Move It" in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1968.
Thank You Very Much is an album of the March 1978 reunion concerts at the London Palladium by English singer Cliff Richard and the group that backed him in the 1950s and 1960s The Shadows. It was released in February 1979 on the EMI label and reached No. 5 in the UK Albums Chart .
21 Today is the fourth studio album by Cliff Richard and his fifth album overall. The album features The Shadows on every track. It was released through EMI Columbia Records on 14 October 1961, the exact date of Cliff Richard's 21st birthday and was his first No. 1 in the UK album chart.
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