1959: Cliff Richard with the new Drifters (Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch & Jet Harris making their debut) released "Livin’ Lovin’ Doll" / "Steady With You" (DB 4249) it only peaks at No.20 in the chart.
January 11th, Cliff Richard appeared at the ‘New Musical Express’ annual Poll Winners Concert is held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Cliff sings “Move It”, “One Night” and “High Class Baby”.
NME presented Cup to Cliff Richard for being voted by readers "The Most Promising New Singer of 1958".
January 17th, 1959: Cliff Richard and the Drifters appeared on ‘Oh Boy!’(SHOW # 19), Cliff singing "Move It", "One Night" and "High Class Baby".
Tito Burns became Cliff’s manager, replacing Franklin Boyd and John Foster.
Cliff Richard booked for Lyceum Ballroom Cabaret spot.
January 31st, Cliff Richard and the Drifters appeared on ‘Oh Boy!’ other artists are Shirley Bassey and Don Lang.

1960: NME Final Chart Positions for 1959:
1. Russ Conway
2. Cliff Richard
3. Lonnie Donegan
4. Marty Wilde
5. Elvis Presley

Cliff Richard’s "Travellin’ Light" is at No.5 in NME Top selling singles charts and “Living Doll” at No.5 in NME Best Selling Sheet Music charts.
Cliff Richard appears on BBC TV’s ‘Parade of the Pops’, Cliff sings “Travellin’ Light”, “I'm Walkin’” and “Pointed Toe Shoes”.
Cliff Richard Top the bill on ‘Saturday Night at the London Palladium’ breaks all the previous records, when nearly 20 million viewers watched this show. It is the biggest audience for a light entertainment program on TV in the history of British TV.
Cliff Richard Named 1960 Palladium Revue Star.
"A Voice In The Wilderness"/ "Don’t Be Mad At Me" (DB 4398) released and reaches No.2
Cliff Richard and the Shadows fly to United States of America for their first tour.
Cliff Richard & The Shadows have been special UK guests on the month-long ‘Dick Clark’s Caravan Of Stars’ US tour.
Cliff Richard appears on ABC TV’s "Pat Boone Show", Cliff sings "Forty Days", "Dynamite", "Living Doll", "A Voice In The Wilderness", "Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On" and duet with Pat Boone on "Pretty Blue Eyes".

1961: Cliff appear on BBC TV’s Saturday Club, Cliff sings “Good Golly Miss Molly”, “ ‘D’ In Love”, “Lamp Of Love”, “I Love You” and “Working After School”.
“Evergreen Tree” from “Me And My Shadows” album is in Top ten in India.
NME 1960 chart points:
1. Cliff Richard 1416
2. Adam Faith 1386
3. Elvis Presley 1104
4. Everly Brothers 965
10. The Shadows 665

“I Love You” is at No.2 in NME Top selling singles charts and is at No.4 in NME Best Selling Sheet Music charts.
Cliff Richard selected for U.S. Palladium TV Show.
"I Love You" is at No.10 in India.

1962: January 11th, "The Young Ones" / "We Say Yeah" (DB 4761) released.
“The Young Ones" with 524,000 advance UK sales and it soared straight into the chart at No.1, selling over a million copies within days of release.
“The Young Ones” enjoyed a worldwide success and earns Cliff his second Gold Disc.
He also wins an "Ivor Novello Award".
Cliff appears on "Parade of the Pops" singing "The Young Ones" and "Who Are We To Say".
"When The Girl In Your Arms" is at No.2 in India.

1963: On January 3rd, "The Next Time" / "Bachelor Boy" (DB 4950) both sides are the first No.1 of the year and Cliff’s third Gold Disc.
Soundtrack “Summer Holiday” (SX 1472 MONO) / (SCX 3462 STEREO) album is released.
Film "Summer Holiday" premiered in London on 10th January and the album from the film is released.
Cliff Richard has been voted the number one favourite film star in America’s Motion Picture Herald Annual Cinema Survey.
Radio Luxembourg’s "ABC of the Stars" for the first time in history devotes the whole show for Cliff.
Cliff Richard & the Shadows begin tour of South Africa.
Cliff Richard appears on BBC TV’s ‘Parade Of The Pops’, Cliff sings “Do You Wanna Dance”, “The Next Time” and “Bachelor Boy”.

NME 1962 chart points:
1. Elvis Presley 1463
2. Cliff Richard 1131
3. Frank Ifield 817
4. The Shadows 723

1964: The survey by the Billboard magazine in USA, for the sales of 34 countries outside the USA,
Cliff Richard is at No.1; Elvis at No.2 and The Shadows are at No.3
New York Motion Picture Herald’s survey for the 1963 most popular star in Britain, Cliff is at No.1, Peter Sellers at No.2 and Elvis at No.3
"I’m The Lonely One" / "Watch What You Do With my Baby" (DB 7203) released.
NME 1963 chart points:
1. The Beatles 1741
2. Cliff Richard 1323
3. The Shadows 899
4. Gerry & the Pacemakers 894

1965: "I Could Easily Fall (In Love With You)" (DB 7420) is in Top Ten in UK, Holland & Sweden.
NME 1964 chart points:
1. The Beatles 1232
2. The Bachelors 1035
3. The Rolling Stones 1005
7. Cliff Richard 747

1966: NME 1965 chart points:
1. The Rolling Stones 836
2. The Seekers 813
3. The Beatles 760
6. Cliff Richard 631

Result of NME Chart survey for the last five years Cliff Richard is the champion.
1. Cliff Richard 4841
2. Elvis Presley 4344
3. The Beatles 3737
4. The Shadows 3107

1967: Cliff Richard recorded the new version of "Move It" for the album "Don’t Stop Me Now".
Cliff’s "Cinderella" album (SX 6130 Mono) (SCX 6103 Stereo is released.

1968: "The Day I Met Marie" comes 4th in the Best British Disc of the year for 1967.
NME 1967 chart points:
1. Engelbert Humperdinck 1218
2. The Monkees 916
3. Tom Jones 890
4. The Beatles 695
5. Tremeloes 633
7. Cliff Richard 529

1969: Cliff Richard and the Settlers perform a charity concert at Royal Albert Hall in London for the homeless, starving refugees of Biafra.
Cliff Richard begins filming “Life With Johnny” for Tyne Tees Television.

1970: Cliff Richard’s "It’s Cliff Richard" 13 week series on BBC 1 begins.
Result of NME Chart survey for the past decade, Cliff Richard is still the champion.
1. Cliff Richard 7913
2. Elvis Presley 6438
3. The Beatles 6394
4. The Shadows 3790
5. The Rolling Stones 3126

1971: "Sunny Honey Girl"/ "Don’t Move Away" (duet with Olivia) / "I Was Only Fooling Myself" (DB 8747) is released.
"Goodbye Sam Hello Samantha" is voted 7th best British single of the year 1970.
The second "It’s Cliff Richard" series on BBC TV, along with Cliff Richard are Una Stubbs, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and John Farrar.
The NME poll results are published.
World Male Singer: 1.Elvis Presley, 2.Cliff Richard, 3. Tom Jones
World Musical Personality: 1.Elvis, 2. Cliff Richard, 3. Andy Williams
Best TV/ Radio show: 1.Top of The Pops, 2.Disco 2, 3. It’s Cliff Richard
British Vocal Personality: 1.Cliff Richard, 2.Tom Jones, 3. Cilla Black
Best British Male Singer: 1.Cliff Richard, 2.Tom Jones, 3. Paul McCartney

1972: Cliff’s new "It’s Cliff Richard" 13 week series on BBC TV.
The NME poll results are published
World Male Singer: 1.Elvis Presley, 2.Cliff Richard, 3.Tom Jones and Rod Stewart
World Musical Personality: 1.Elvis, 2. Cliff Richard, 3. Rod Stewart
Best TV/ Radio show: 1.Top of The Pops, 2.Old Grey Whistle Test, 3. It’s Cliff Richard
British Vocal Personality: 1.Cliff Richard, 2.Rod Stewart, 3. Cilla Black
Best British Make Singer: 1.Cliff Richard, 2.Tom Jones, 3. Rod Stewart

1973: Cliff Richard appears on Cilla Black Show, performing songs for the Eurovision Song Contest.
In the NME poll results, Cliff Richard is at No.4 in the British section and at No.7 in the world section.
BRT TV, Belgium, shows "Cliff In Scotland", Cliff’s sings "Hail The Caledonia", "Skye Boat Song" "Bonnie Mary Of Argyle", "Captain Ramsey Kitchen", "Soldier Soldier", "Highland Fling" and "Scotland The Brave".

1975: Cliff Richard appears in “The Name of Jesus” concert, at Royal Albert Hall. Cliff sings “Bless You”, “Help It Along”, “Jesus Is My Kind Of People”, “Why Me Lord”, “Power To All Our Friends” (duet with Choralerna) and “Amazing Grace”.

1976: EMI release a Box Set of 6 cassettes "The Music and Life of Cliff Richard".

1978: "Yes He Live"/ "Good On The Sally Army" (EMI 2730) Cliff’s 71st single released.

1979: Cliff Richard’s concerts in UK.

1980: Cliff Richard’s latest single “Carrie”/ “Moving In” (EMI 5006) released.
Cliff takes part in an evangelical meeting in camridge with Dr. Billy Graham. The same evening he speaks at Great St. Mary's, the University Church.

1981: "A Little In Love" / "Keep On Looking" (EMI 5123) released.
Cliff appears on "Solid Gold" and many other TV shows in the USA and "A Little In Love" single peaks at No.17 in USA charts.
Cliff records live at the Apollo, Manchester, for BBC TV.
Cliff Richard attends a Crusaders meeting at Central Hall, Westminster.
Cliff Richard attends a Christians in Sport Dinner in Watford.

1983: "Cliff In Kenya" is premiered in London.
Cliff Richard tours Australia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
“She Means Nothing To Me” duet with Phil Everly released.

1984: Cliff Richard tours United States of America and the Far East.

1985: "Heart User" / "I Will Follow You" (Rich 2) released.
Cliff Richard appears on "The Tube", singing "Lovers And Friends", "Lucille" and "Heart User".

1986: Cliff Richard records the new version of "Living Doll" with The Young Ones and Hank Marvin.
Cliff Richard attends the funeral of Graham Jarvis, his drummer at ‘Beckenham Crematorium’, London.
Cliff Richard flies for a holidays in Miami, USA.
Cliff Richard interviewed by the ‘Sunday Express’ at London’s Portman Hotel.
Cliff Richard and The Young Ones recorded the video for “Living Doll”.

1987: Cliff Richard attends the birthday party of Anthony Andrews.
Cliff Richard records ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ at the Dominion.
Cliff Richard appears on ‘Wogan’ in the costume he wears as Chris Wilderin in ‘Time’.

1988: Cliff Richard flies to Australia.
Cliff Richard participates in Paul McNamee’s celebrity Charity Tennis Tournament.
Cliff Richard attends the Gospel Music Festival in Melbourne.
Cliff Richard participates in the Bicentennial TV Gala in Sydney.
Cliff Richard performs at the Australian Royal Command Performance attended by Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

1989: Cliff Richard flies to Australia and New Zealand.
Cliff Richard attends ‘Tear Fund’ meeting in Sydney.
Cliff Richard plays in pro-celebrity tennis tournament in Melbourne.
Cliff Richard attends ‘Tear Fund’ meeting in Auckland and Wellington.
Cliff Richard flies to Singapore and flies to Britain.

1990: Video shoot at Shepperton Studios for “Stronger Than That”.
Cliff Richard gave a charity concert for Leukaemia Research at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

1991: Cliff Richard and the Shadows appeared at the charity concert at Knebworth.
Cliff Richard attends a charity night for the children of Chernobyl, which raises 70,000 Pounds.
The launch of charity single “Everybody’s Got A Crisis In Their Life” by Simon Cunnings, it features Cliff Richard, Rick Wakeman, Justin Hayward, Alvin Stardust, Stephanie De Sykes, Carl Wayne, Mike Smith and John Wetton.
Cliff Richard flies to Melbourne to begin Australasian Tour.

1992: Cliff Richard appears on ‘Top of the Pops’ (BBC) on January 2nd, singing “This New Year”.
Cliff Richard attends the premiere of Jack Good’s ‘Good Rocking Tonight’, Timothy Whitmall played as Cliff Richard.

1995: Cliff Richard records "We Being Many" a duet song with Helen Shapiro.

1997: January 15th, Cliff Richard appeared on the Des O'Conner show.

2000: January 2nd, Sir Cliff appeared on ‘Songs Of Praise For, The New Millennium’ at Cardiff, he sings “The Millennium Prayer”
Sir Cliff Richard was presented with a Lifetime Outstanding Achievement award for his contribution to the British music, the award presented to him by Prime Minister's wife Cherie Blair at The Savoy Hotel in London.

2002: Sir Cliff Richard is second to Elvis Presley as Britain’s favourite pop idol of all time, Cliff Richard outranked Robbie
Williams, Madonna, The Beatles and Michael Jackson.
The Top Ten favourite Pop Idol of All Time:
1. Elvis Presley
2. Cliff Richard
3. Robbie Williams
4. The Beatles
5. Madonna
6. Frank Sinatra
7. John Lennon
8. Freddie Murcury
9. Michael Jackson
10. Elton John

2003: Cliff Richard flies to Australia and New Zealand for his “World Tour” concerts and later in February and March tour of Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong China and Thailand.

2004: January 19, EMI released four digitally re-mastered classic Cliff albums with bonus tracks “Dressed For The Occasion”, “The Rock Connection”, “Always Guaranteed” and “Stronger”.

2005: Singers including Sir Cliff Richard, Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb and Boy George under One World Project, are recording a charity single to help raise funds for victims of the Asian tsunami, they hope the song will raise more than £2 million for the relief fund.
The single “Grief Never Grows Old” released on 24th January.

2006: Sir Cliff Richard took part in a 45th Anniversary tribute show for Dionne Warwick in Los Angeles, Cliff Richard & Dionne Warwick duets on “Anyone Who Had A Heart”.