Cliff and Friends

Rick Wakeman (best known for his work on keyboards with “YES”) and Bruce Welch thread together the fashion, faces and subsequent fame that spawned from the Rock and Roll Mecca that was the 2I’s coffee bar in London’s Soho, right through to the final farewell tour of Cliff Richard and The Shadows an act that will forever fair well in Rock and Roll’s lush history and a legacy laced with the phenomenal influence that their guitar style and sound had on luminaries from The Beatles to way beyond.

The Shadows last performed with Cliff Richard in 2009, and the reunion celebrated their 50th Anniversary in the music industry. Founding member and guitarist Bruce Welch meets musician Rick Wakeman and describes the extraordinary story of The Shadows, who together in their astonishing partnership with Cliff Richard, dominated the British popular music scene in the late ’50s and early ’60s enjoying record-breaking solo and joint careers, and rising to international fame with multi-million record sales.

The vivid memories of Bruce Welch’s golden career are brought to light in this episode of ‘Face To Face’, which maps the moments that mattered from his roots of musical influence to his journey from Newcastle-on-Tyne in the north of England, shared with his childhood friend and fellow Shadow Hank B. Marvin, to London’s thriving and highly competitive music scene. An amazing overview from someone who was there ….

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