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Cliff Richard
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British singer (born 1940)
OverviewAI-generated
Cliff Richard is a British male artist who began his professional career in 1958. Born on 14 October 1940, he is associated with genres including baroque pop, classic pop and rock, and Christmas music. His musical style is also tagged as pop, oldies, 60s, classic rock, and 80s.
Richard has authored twenty-five works, with notable titles including *Single Minded*, *In the Limelight*, *Walking Back to Happiness*, and *You, me and Jesus*. He maintains an official website and has 228,000 social media followers. On Last.fm, he has 742,399 listeners and 5,774,870 plays. His subject matter is referenced by 2,615 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Webb
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Lucknow
- Occupation
- amateur radio operator
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Participant in
- Live Aid
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- EMI
- Discography
- Cliff Richard discography
- Official website
- www.cliffrichard.org
- Image
- Cliff Richard - Old Royal Naval Yard Greenwich - Saturday 1st July 2017 CliffGreenwich010717-43 (35672276090) (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Cliff Richard
- date of birth
- 1940-10-14
- topic's main category
- Category:Cliff Richard
- birth name
- Harry Rodger Webb
- name in native language
- Cliff Richard
- pseudonym
- Cliff Richard
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- social media followers
- 228000
- P12749
- 3218 Delphine
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Harry Rodger Webb (born 14 October 1940), known professionally as Cliff Richard, is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and as of 2026, is the third-top-selling artist in UK singles chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Presley and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song. He had a successful screen career with films including Expresso Bongo (1959), The Young Ones (1961), Summer Holiday (1963) and Wonderful Life (1964), and his own show on BBC Television. Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image, and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cliff Richard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.