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Cliff Richard's latest movie Summer Holiday is premiered at the Warner Theatre in London, England, UK, Europe. Cliff and The Shadows attend the event.Full article:
Cliff Richard : I started five years before The Beatles. So, before Beatlemania we had Cliff and The Shadows mania. I've got these wonderful old clips of us arriving in places, airports being closed. I've got films where the west end got blocked. My second film, Summer Holiday, which was in '62, I never made it to the premier. The police wouldn't let me out of the car. There were too many people. Nowadays, when I go to a premier, it's all so beautifully organized.
(Source : interview with Gary James on www.classicbands.com)
Glenn Tilbrook, singer/songwriter, Squeeze, recalls seeing Summer Holiday : Any ideas I may have had of pursuing the more traditional career options of a 5 year old, such as a policeman or fireman, went out of the window. Being in a band, travelling around in a double-decker bus, stopping at a beach somewhere and being surrounded by adoring fans as you played a tune or two looked too good to me to consider anything else. Fortunately, I never changed my mind.
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Glenn Tilbrook (songwriter/guitarist/co-founder, Squeeze) : I went to see a Cliff Richard film called Summer Holiday when I was five. Cliff Richard has been big in Britain forever. And the basic plot was about him and his band, The Shadows, driving around Europe, leaping out and playing on beaches, and everyone being terribly excited. This very much impressed my five-year-old mind. I thought, “I’d like to do that.” And it never left me – from that point on, that was all I wanted to be. Five years later it was the Monkees.
(Source : interview by by Bud Scoppa with Darryl Morden , for Music Connection, January 25, 1988)
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(Source : interview with Gary James on www.classicbands.com)
Glenn Tilbrook, singer/songwriter, Squeeze, recalls seeing Summer Holiday : Any ideas I may have had of pursuing the more traditional career options of a 5 year old, such as a policeman or fireman, went out of the window. Being in a band, travelling around in a double-decker bus, stopping at a beach somewhere and being surrounded by adoring fans as you played a tune or two looked too good to me to consider anything else. Fortunately, I never changed my mind.
(Source : not known)
Glenn Tilbrook (songwriter/guitarist/co-founder, Squeeze) : I went to see a Cliff Richard film called Summer Holiday when I was five. Cliff Richard has been big in Britain forever. And the basic plot was about him and his band, The Shadows, driving around Europe, leaping out and playing on beaches, and everyone being terribly excited. This very much impressed my five-year-old mind. I thought, “I’d like to do that.” And it never left me – from that point on, that was all I wanted to be. Five years later it was the Monkees.
(Source : interview by by Bud Scoppa with Darryl Morden , for Music Connection, January 25, 1988)