Drummer “Brian Bennett first met Cliff Richard in Soho's 2i's coffee bar, the birthplace of British pop, in the late 1950s. Cliff - then plain Harry Webb - would just turn up for a cup of espresso (price one shilling, or 5p), and hang around with all the other aspiring rockers, taking turns to play on the 18in-wide stage in the hope of being discovered.” The Drifters were renamed the Shadows, who “kick-started the British rock'n'roll revolution - George Harrison famously said of the band, 'No Shadows, no Beatles' - but they were clean-cut and well-behaved” (Spencer Bright, Daily Mail, 4/9/2016).
Cliff Richard and the Shadows “Move It”
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