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The music and movies of Sir Cliff’s career

Cliff Richard performs on stage (Johnny Green/PA)
Cliff Richard performs on stage (Johnny Green/PA)

Sir Cliff Richard was born Harry Rodger Webb in Lucknow, India, in 1940, but the family moved to England eight years later.

He started performing as a teenager with his band The Drifters, which later became The Shadows, and his first hit single Move It reached number two in the UK singles chart on his 18th birthday.

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Cliff Richard at Heathrow Airport as he was about to board a plane for New York (PA)

Dubbed the “British Elvis”, Sir Cliff went on to have a string of hit records and is the only singer to have had a number one single in each decade from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Cliff Richard with US evangelist Billy Graham in 1973 (PA)

He is the third top-selling artist in UK single chart history, behind only Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and his discography includes 43 studio albums, 57 other albums and 139 singles.

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Cliff Richard with Dame Vera Lynn during a Variety Club lunch in her honour at the Savoy Hotel, London, in 1975 (PA)

The 77-year-old singer has sold mode than 250 million records worldwide in a career spanning nearly 60 years.

His most famous hits include Summer Holiday, Living Doll and Mistletoe And Wine and he has twice represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Diana, Princess of Wales with tennis player Virginia Wade, second left, and Cliff Richard sharing a joke in 1991 (PA)

He was second in 1968 with Congratulations, which became a number one hit, and then finished third with Power to All Our Friends in 1973.

Sir Cliff became a Christian in 1964 and made appearances with evangelical US preacher Billy Graham, as well as recording Christian music.

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Sir Cliff performs during the Hallelujah Christmas charity concert in London in 1997 (Sean Dempsey/PA)

His last number one hit was The Millennium Prayer in 1999, which set the words of the Lord’s Prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.

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Sir Cliff performs a revised version of his song Summer Holiday over the PA system onboard the British Airways Dreamflight plane in 2013 (Steve Parsons/PA)

The singer has starred in 12 films including The Young Ones, Summer Holiday and Run For Your Wife.

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Sir Cliff arrives at the High Court in 2018 (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

He was awarded an OBE in 1980 and given a Knighthood in 1995, becoming the first rock star to receive the honour.