Cliff Richard Remembers hearing of Elvis Presley for the first time

By Elvis Australia
Source: www.elvis.com.au
August 29, 2015

Cliff Richard: 'When I first heard Elvis, it sounded like an alien art form. But the more I looked into it, the more I realised something. That the hillbilly and bluegrass music, country music in general along with gospel, rhythm & blues, it all went together and came back in the form of Elvis Presley'.

Cliff Richard: The reason I was always labeled Britain's Elvis was because everybody wanted a Britain's Elvis and I was sort of the nearest thing to it'. (In truth, it was as much Cliff's fantasy as the nation's. He wore Elvis' favorite colors: pink and black. He vibrated his legs like a cricket in hot weather. Even in a puffy paperback biography authorized a few years ago it was admitted: 'His dark hair would be immaculate at the start of the act, but after a few bars it would begin to assume a carefully stage-managed kind of disorder. Such details could not be left to chance'.)

Cliff Richard Remembers hearing of Elvis Presley for the first time

Cliff Richard Remembers the first time that heard Elvis Presley