Cliff Richard consists of Harry Webb.
Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb in Lucknow, India, on October 14, 1940) is one of the United Kingdom's most popular singers.
With his backing group The Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before the advent of The Beatles. A conversion to Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to his having more of a pop than rock image. Although never able to achieve a significant impact in the United States, Richard has remained a popular music, film, and television personality in the UK.
During the last six decades Richard has charted many hit singles and holds the record (along with Elvis Presley) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all its active decades ( 1950s– 2000s). According to his website, he has sold 250 million records over the course of his career.
Born in India, Richard and his family moved to Britain after Indian independence in 1947. It is widely believed he is of Anglo-Indian ( Eurasian) descent, although he has never publically acknowledged or refuted this.
The Anglo Indian Harry Webb came from a skiffle group to be lead singer of the rock n roll Drifters in 1958 (not to be confused with the American group of the same name). Before their first "big time" out of town performance at the Regal Ballroom in Ripley they took the name Cliff Richard and the Drifters. The members of this band were Harry, who had become Cliff, Ian "Sammy" Samwell, Terry Smart and Norman Mitham. None of these survived to be part of the later and better known Shadows.
