Cliff Richard review – from ghastly to sublime in determined return

City Hall, Newcastle
Performing for the first time in England since the end of his fight with the BBC, Cliff traced a haywire route through his career – with rock’n’roll masterworks and late-career horrors“That song means a lot to me, and you know why,” says Cliff Richard, after new song Rise Up sees him insisting, “They’ll never take me down.” It’s a solitary, oblique reference to the televised 2014 police raid on his Berkshire home over str