Cliff Richard promises to lock up his living doll in a trunk

2 July 1959: Number 7 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicCliff was the UK's first rock star but within a year of his first hit with Move It, he was joined by a new band, the Drifters (later the Shadows), to record a version of the Lionel Bart number, Living Doll. It marked the arrival of a softer sound and a more family-friendly image, and sold more than a million copies. It was the first of Richard's 14 No 1s. (And in 1986, it returned to the top, in a memorable vers...

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