Cliff Richard fans are never let down
IS Sir Cliff Richard a miracle of nature?
His 70th-birthday calendar shows the pop legend – he’s had a number- one hit in every one of the past five decades – looking remarkably lithe, athletic and chipper.
Mother Nature and her miracles are only partly responsible. Cliff’s classic good looks, preserved as if in aspic, are the result of his remarkable self-discipline and a lifetime of abstinence, gruelling training sessions and an unflagging sense of obligation to his fans.
Cliff Richard’s fans are devoted like no other worshippers and he knows he owes it to them to look as dashing and debonair as is humanly possible.
Mother Nature and her miracles are only partly responsible
Happy birthday and many, many happy returns Cliff from the now grown-up little girl who lived down the road from you in Totteridge, North London, and who must have driven you mad bringing every single visiting school friend to your front door for your autograph and was never met with anything less than perfect manners, friendliness and your irresistible charm.