The best No 1 records: Cliff Richard – The Millennium Prayer

1999: Cliff had his first No 1 hit 40 years previously, but he never sounded more ahead of time than here ...Cliff's first No 1 – 1959's Living Doll – played an important part in establishing the career of one of pop's most hipswivellingly exciting popstars, but this chart-topper 40 years later feels more significant. Firstly, in combining The Lord's Prayer with Auld Lang Syne and hitting the top spot more than two years before Sugababes' Freak Like Me, The Millennium Prayer was the first ma...

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