MY LIFE, MY WAY
By Cliff Richard with Penny Junor
Headline Publishing Group. 308 pages. £20.00
ISBN 978-0-7553-1588-8
This autobiography is ‘an attempt to put the last 50 years into some sort of context, to make sense of some of the extraordinary things that have happened to me and to explain, as best I can, what it has felt like being Cliff Richard.’ Cliff invites you to read this book if ‘you want to know what I really feel about things.’
It tells the story of his early boyhood in India in a ‘God-fearing’ home; their difficult early years in England from 1948, his discovery of rock music and the beginnings of his phenomenal career. We see the progress of that career, his ambition and success, with considerable emphasis on his image, looks, clothes, cars, houses, fans, girlfriends and why he didn’t marry, and his generosity. He says: ‘I made money quite quickly … many people in my business have gone off the rails for this reason... but I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t thank God for all that’s happened to me.’
