Cliff Richard

2022 - 12 - 8

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Cliff Richard criticises 'pathetic' royalties from streaming services (Newstalk)

The 'Mistletoe and Wine' singer says writers will stop making music if they are not paid properly.

"I've been there quite a few times and made a few friends, and they've invited me, so I'm going to go there. "Somehow or another, the internet has got to get used to the idea that these songs belong to us, cost a fortune to make and they're going to have to pay us proper royalties". "My worry is that in 15/20 years' time, people will only be able to stream old songs because they're not going to write any if they're not going to get paid for it.

Chris Cheney is Singing Cliff Richard's Wired For Sound And Its ... (Noise11)

The Living End's Chris Cheney has uploaded an acoustic version of Cliff Richard's 1981 pop classic 'Wired For Sound' and he makes it sound pretty good.

Christmas album reviews: Cliff Richard | Andrea Corr | Andrea ... (The Scotsman)

From Christmas-themed funk to a barbershop version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, this year's festive offerings are nothing if not eclectic, writes Fiona ...

Recorded in an afternoon, with no overdubs, the album exudes a sense of delight in making music together, particularly in urgently bop fuelled numbers such as O’Higgins’s compositions Everything’s Under Control and the fast forward bounce of One for the Six. The dreamy spiritual soul jazz of the not conventionally Christmassy title track is the one Bonet original in a set of festive covers, all with Christmas in the title, from the Minnie Riperton-like cosmic soul of Little Christmas Tree via a delicate and philosophical Someday at Christmas to the easy listening Keep Christmas With You, evoking the comforting spirit of The Carpenters. More interesting are the tone poem Songs of the Oak, rich in sugary Hollywood-style pizazz, and the more serious modernist leanings of The Oak. Christmas with Cliff features a mix of secular and sacred songs and a trio of originals which won’t be troubling the Christmas classics. Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule is the first ever official Christmas album by Louis Armstrong, essentially gathering together all his seasonal offerings in one big vat of mulled personality. A nicely cheesy Feliz Navidad, loungey Buon Natale and mawkish newie Il Giorno Piu Speciale are all wrapped up with lashings of fancy tinsel and there’s a guest appearance on The Simpsons for pudding.

Christmas Albums 2022: Neil Diamond, Louis Armstrong, Debbie ... (musicOMH.com)

Music Features, Spotlights: Christmas Albums 2022: Neil Diamond, Louis Armstrong, Debbie Gibson get festive.

Christmas With Cliff features 13 tracks, 10 of which see him lunging it on the likes of When A Child Is Born and The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, alongside three new tunes – Mary, Did You Know, Heart Of Christmas and Six Days After Christmas. There are also recent smashes such as [Ed Sheeran](https://www.musicomh.com/artist/ed-sheeran) & Elton John’s Merry Christmas and [George Ezra](https://www.musicomh.com/artist/george-ezra)’s Come On Home For Christmas. Their joint Christmas album, Christmas With Aled & Russell follows their own solo efforts, but this team-up is for anyone who fancies a festive spit roast where you can imagine the two of them placed at either end, and their semen dripping over your sequinned Ho Ho Ho cushions. It’s a jolly affair recorded at Sun studios and features him a-smouldering and swoonsome across a series of classics and is effectively begging for your hand in marriage with a song called Dogs Love Christmas Too. SO GOOD NEWS DARLING, A Charlie Brown Christmas has come out as a super deluxe edition with five discs, with discs 2-4 featuring the five recording sessions and outtakes, and there’s a further blu-ray disc with the new remastered mix of the album. [Mariah Carey](https://www.musicomh.com/artist/mariah-carey) is the Queen of Christmas (although contested), Shaky is the cheeky market trader. It’s just beautiful (man) and the soft focus jazzery of pianist Vince Guaraldi providing a snug blanket of plinkery. The wonder of Christmas music is that it’s a perennial scene, and so Cheerily, it’s in fact six of his Decca singles from the 1950s, a pair of duets with Ella Fitzgerald and Velma Middleton, and What a Wonderful World. My parents would locate his whereabouts, and where he would be on his route, and prep me ready to run out and see this magical fibreglass creature racing around the estate on the back of a flatbed truck, and I’d go out and wave at Santa (who was inevitably dwarfed by Rudolph) and Santa would wave back and say ‘Merry Christmas’ at the kids he encountered over the jolly parpling of Tijuana Christmas. This is obviously good news, and if it should get pressed up in time rather than delayed until February, it should help lift the song into the festive Top 10 for the first time in years (it regularly gets as far as the Top 20 – Number 18 in 2020, thanks – due to streaming and the like). Each year a phalanx of releases hit the schedules with varying contents and results.

Cliff Richard reveals his secrets to keeping young (4BC)