Cliff Richard – The first straight-edge icon?

His clean lifestyle pre-dates punk's straight-edge movement by 25 years, which perhaps makes Sir Cliff the first true rock'n'roll revolutionary. Or maybe not ...Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye and Ray Cappo are fierce-eyed, high-IQ exponents of straight edge – the no-drink, no-drugs frontier of rock'n'roll that spawned an army of believers bearing the triple X symbol on the backs of their hands. The scene has spent 30 years burrowing into the American psyche – even arriving in the mains...

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