Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb) is a British singer, musician & actor.
Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, only behind Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
Cliff Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis Presley and Little Richard. Richard 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; in the opinion of John Lennon of the Beatles, "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music".
Increased focus on his Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music.
