Cliff and Friends

Rick Wakeman meets the Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch on Face To Face.

PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS

A series of TV and Radio shows produced by the Classic Media Group and recorded at the legendary Shepperton Film Studios. Face To Face, presented by rock legend Rick Wakeman features a stellar line-up of guests. Each episode reveals some of the most interesting, candid and in-depth interviews with major recording artists ever to grace our screens. Face To Face truly does put a face to the name and profiles the careers of legends, presenting an insight into the minds of the masters of music!

EPISODE SYNOPSIS

Some two decades have passed since The Shadows last performed with Cliff Richard. As the reunion is announced to celebrate 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. The group, together with 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, rising to international fame with multi-million record sales. The vivid memoirs of Bruce Welchs golden career are brought to light in this episode of Face To Face. Mapping the moments that mattered from his roots of musical influence to his journey from the North of England, shared with his childhood friend and fellow Shadow, Hank Marvin to Londons thriving scene.

Rick Wakeman and Bruce Welch thread together the fashion, faces and subsequent fame that spawned from the Rock & Roll Mecca that was the 2I’s coffee bar in London’s Soho, right through to the final farewell tour of Cliff Richard & The Shadowsan act that will forever fair well in Rock & Rolls lush history and a legacy laced with the phenomenal influence that their guitar style and sound had on luminaries from The Beatles and beyond.

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