‘Medical treatment may be advisable’: The British Elvis Presley Cliff Richard’s role in the story of punk
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— “On a chilly night in November 1976… a stormy sea of wrestling limbs and flying spit.”: Page 254, Savage, Jon, ‘England's Dreaming’ (Faber & Faber, 2005)
—“When ‘Move It’ was recorded at EMI's Studio Two… crunchy*.: Buskin, Richard, ‘Classic Tracks: Cliff Richard 'Move It’’, November, 2023: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-cliff-richard-move-it
— “‘His violent hip-swinging was revolting… medical treatment may be advisable.’”: Page 474, Sandbrook, Dominic, ’Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles’, (Abacus, 2005)
— “The aggressively writhing… aggression hadn't broken out when he watched ‘Rock around the Clock’ at a Liverpool cinema.”: Page 460, Sandbrook, Dominic, ’Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles’, (Abacus, 2005)
— “Violence also infiltrated Cliff Richard’s early… ‘Those coins could have taken somebody’s eye out,’ he later complained in his autobiography, The Dreamer.”: Page 90, Richard, Cliff, ‘The Dreamer: An Autobiography’, (Ebury Press, 2020)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Richard, Cliff, ‘The Dreamer: An Autobiography’, (Ebury Press, 2020)
Sandbrook, Dominic, ’Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles’, (Abacus, 2005)
Savage, Jon, ‘England's Dreaming’ (Faber & Faber, 2005)
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