Sir Cliff richard is absolutely free to do whatever he wants (including not play NYC) but of all the things he could do, another collobartion with Van Morrison for instance, or a return to his 52 hit song catalogue… really anything except appear as Heathcliff.
But the great American songbook? Swing?? With Brass??? Why????
Fans were not amused by the concert: “”I feel flat and disappointed. It is the first time since 1958 that I have not come away from a concert buzzing. In the second half, I actually wanted to go to sleep. We feel our money was wasted.”
Hardly a shocker. Cliff’s manager said: “Cliff hasn’t been in the business for 50 years without making changes. He’s had great reviews for his recent concerts which were billed as a big band sound. Robbie Williams and Rod Stewart have done jazz albums and Cliff wanted to do one too; he knows that not everyone is going to like every genre of music but this time he wanted to try something new.”