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Sir Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard was a 19-year-old with two top ten hits when Buddy Holly died, but today, with 14 UK number one singles and seven number one albums behind him, he still acknowledges Buddy’s incredible influence on him.
Cliff holds an all-time UK chart record as the first artist ever to score a top five album in eight consecutive decades, a testament to his amazing longevity. His debut album in 1959 included a cover of Buddy’s ‘That’ll Be the Day’, recorded in the presence of hundreds of fans at Abbey Road Studios.
In 1983, Cliff’s version of ‘True Love Ways’, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, made the UK Top Ten. He played his Foundation guitar, named ‘Early in the Morning’, on stage on his 2018 60th anniversary tour, performing Elvis Presley’s ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, Buddy’s ‘Peggy Sue’ and the Everly Brothers’ ‘Wake up Little Susie’.
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