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In May 2008, a Reuters news report claimed that voting in the competition had been fixed by the Spanish dictator leader, Francisco Franco, to ensure that the Spanish entry won, allowing them to host the contest the following year (1969). The CPS reviewed the evidence following applications by two of his accusers, [166] and concluded that the decision not to charge Richard was correct. He said: "My three sisters have children, and it's been wonderful to watch them grow up, get married and start families of their own. The creators of the Despicable Me movies and Minions show us what our pets get up to behind closed doors in The Secret Life of Pets, a funny and endearing animated adventure. When asked in February 2013 if he had regrets about not starting a family, Richard said that if he had been married with children he could not have devoted so much time to his career.

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He holds the record, with Presley, as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He continued to be popular, and have hits in the charts throughout the 1960s, though not at the level that he had enjoyed before.Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (Claimant) and {1) The British Broadcasting Corporation (2) The Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (Defendants)" (PDF).

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The campaign was initially unsuccessful and the UK copyright on many of Richard's early recordings expired in 2008. For many years, he shared his main home with his charity and promotion schedules manager, Bill Latham, and Latham's mother. In September, a single celebrating his 50 years in pop music, titled "Thank You for a Lifetime" was released. This means Richard's recordings between 1958 and 1962 are out of copyright in the UK, but those from 1963 will be in copyright until 2034. In 1990, Richard said: "Those of us who have something to offer have to be prepared to give all the time.According to John Kennedy O'Connor's The Eurovision Song Contest—The Official History, this was the closest result yet in the contest and Richard locked himself in the toilet to avoid the nerves of the voting. Richard acted in the 1967 film Two a Penny, released by Billy Graham's World Wide Pictures, [31] in which he played Jamie Hopkins, a young man who gets involved in drug dealing while questioning his life after his girlfriend changes her attitude. He began 1970 by appearing live on the BBC's review of the sixties music scene, Pop Go The Sixties, which was broadcast across Britain and Europe on 31 December 1969. In 1988, Richard's nephew, Philip Harrison, spent the first four months of his life in a children's hospital suffering from serious breathing problems. They became contractually separate from Richard, and the group received no royalties for records backing Richard.

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The holiday album contained both new and older recordings, including the single "Santa's List", which reached No. On more than one occasion, a Shadows instrumental replaced a Richard song at the top of the British charts. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s.He said: "I'm officially a non-resident [of the UK], although I will always be British and proud of it. In the 1970s, Richard said that he was disturbed by the visual imagery and mock horror of singer Alice Cooper. After many years of limited success in the US, three of his singles simultaneously charted on the last Hot 100 of 1980 ("A Little in Love", "Dreamin'", and "Suddenly"). In 2010, Richard confirmed that he is no longer a resident of the United Kingdom and had been granted citizenship by Barbados. On 4 July 2022, Richard sang his 1963 hit "Summer Holiday" at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, as part of the Centenary Celebration.

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Dream Maker", "For Life", "A Matter of Moments", "When The Girl in Your Arms" and the Christmas single "21st Century Christmas", which debuted at No. Richard was involved in a campaign to extend copyright on sound recordings in the UK from 50 to 95 years, and extend the number of years on which a musician can receive royalties. John Lennon reportedly said of Richard that before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music. Richard responded to this by saying: "They're lying to themselves, and more importantly they're lying to the public.

In June 2004, British disc jockey Tony Blackburn was suspended from his radio job at Classic Gold Digital for playing records by Richard against station policy. He has helped to raise funds and awareness of the disease by speaking publicly about his mother's condition. The Webbs moved from comparative wealth in India, where they lived in a company-supplied flat at Howrah near Calcutta, to a semi-detached house in Carshalton, north Surrey. At the age of 22, a year after his relationship with Delia Wicks ended, Richard had a brief romance with the actress Una Stubbs. On 27 September 2016, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that the decision not to prosecute Richard over claims of historical sex offences had been upheld.