1958: Ian Samwell joins the Drifters.
Harry Webb and the Drifters play together at 2I’s Coffee Bar in Soho.

1959: Cliff Richard appears on BBC TV’s Saturday Club, Cliff sings “C’mon Everybody”, “Steady With You”, “Ready Teddy”, “Apron Strings”, “Never Mind”, “Danny” and “Don't Bug Me Baby”.
Cliff Richard in concert at ‘The Gaumont’, Shepherds Bush, London.
Cliff Richard’s first LP “Cliff” SX 1147 (MONO) is released.

1960: Cliff and The Shadows appear on ‘Me And My Shadows’ on ATV Show.
Cliff Richard’s “Fall In Love With You” is at No.2 in NME Top selling singles charts.
Cliff Richard and Anthony meet the Duke of Edinburgh.
Royal Variety Performance - Cliff Richard , Sammy Davis Jr., Lonnie Donegan, Adam Faith.

1961: Cliff Richard has two records in British Top Ten, “Gee Whiz It’s You” and “Theme For A Dream”.
Cliff appears on BBC TV’s ‘Saturday Club’, Cliff sings “ I Want You To Know”, “Theme For A Dream”, “Evergreen Tree”, “True Love Will Come To You” and “Gee Whiz It's You”.
Cliff Richard appears on ‘Parade Of The Pop’
Two E.P. from “Me And My Shadows” album, “Me And My Shadows No. 2” (SEG 8071 Mono) / (ESG Stereo) and “Me And My Shadows No. 3” (SEG 8078 Mono) / (ESG 7843 Stereo) are released.
Cliff Richard appears on Big Beat Show, this was broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall. Cliff sings “Theme For A Dream” and “Gee Whiz It’s You”.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows opened their South African tour in Johannesburg.

1962: Cliff and The Shadows perform at the annual NME Poll Winners’ Concert, Cliff singing “Do You Wanna Dance”, “Razzle Dazzle”, “The Young Ones”, “Got A Funny Feeling”, “Lessons In Love” and “We Say Yeah”.
E.P. “Cliff Richard No. 1” (SEG 8151 Mono) is released.
Jet Harris made is last appearance with Cliff and The Shadows; he is replaced by Brian ‘Licorice’ Locking.
Cliff Richard dines with the head of EMI, Sir Joseph Lockwood.
Cliff Richard and the Shadows appears on Easy Beat, Cliff sings “Do You Wanna Dance”, “My Blue Heaven”, “The Young Ones” and “We Say Yeah”.
“The Young Ones” is at the No.1 in India, Singapore and Thailand.

1963: Cliff appears live from BBC studios on 'Parade Of The Pops', songs on the show are “Dancing Shoes”, “Bachelor Boy” and “Summer Holiday”.
Cliff Richard’s BBC TV Special is screened.
“The Pop Weekly” magazine publishes the results of survey of over 25 years as to their favourite artists,
1.Frank Ifiled
2.Cliff Richard
3.Acker Bilk
4.Shirley Bassey
5.The Shadows.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows appear at the annual ‘NME Poll Winners’ Concert’, Cliff singing “Bachelor Boy”, “Do You Wanna Dance”, “Summer Holiday” and “Dancing Shoes”.
Cliff new single “Lucky Lips” / “I Wonder” (DB 7034) is released, “Lucky Lips” peaks at No.4 in the U.K. Singles Chart.
Melody Maker - Cliff & The Shadows Tour is a Sell Out!, Beatlemania has not affected Cliff Richard's crowd pulling power.

1964: On British tour, Cliff sings “I Wanna Know”, “Come To Me”, “24 Hours From Tulsa”, “Da Do Ron Ron”, “It’s All In The Game”, “Maria”, “You Don’t Know”, “Bachelor Boy”, “Constantly”, “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On” and “What’d I Say”.
Cliff Richard appears at the annual NME Poll Winners’ Concert, Cliff sings “I Wanna Know”, “Don’t Talk To Him”, “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On”, “Bachelor Boy” and “I’m The Lonely One”.
“Constantly”/ “True True Lovin’ (DB 7272) is released, “Constantly” peaks at No.4 in the U.K. Singles chart.
Saturday 25th April, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, appeared on ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’ others artists are Susan Maughan, Mike Sarne, the Fourmost, Mike Berry, Bobby Shafto, the Mojos, Helen Shapiro and Janice Nicholls.
Cliff appears on BBC TV’s Saturday Club, Cliff sings “I’m The Lonely One”, “It’s All In The Game” and “Tell Me”.

1965: On 15th April, Cliff’s eighth No.1 single “The Minute You’re Gone” top the chart in British Charts.
Cliff Richard’s new album titled “Cliff Richard” (SX 1709 MONO) / (SCX 3546 STEREO) is released.

1966: Cliff and The Shadows appear at the “Daily Express Record Star Show” at Empire Pool, Wembley.
Cliff Richard appears at the annual NME Poll Winners’ Concert, Cliff sings “Blue Turns To Grey”, “The Minute You’re Gone” and “Bachelor Boy”.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows records for the film “Finders Keepers” soundtrack.
Cliff attended the 25th Anniversary of Abbey Christian Community service at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
E.P. “Hits From When In Rome” (SEG 8478 Mono) is released.
Cliff and The Shadows along with many other artists appeared on BBC TV’s ‘Spastics Special Star Show’.

1967: Press report that Cliff Richard and The Shadows are to split.
Cliff’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” (SX 6133 Mono) (SCX 6133 Stereo) album is released.

1968: Eurovision Song Contest at London’s Royal Albert Hall is screened in 17 countries to 200 million viewers.
“Congratulations” is runner-up to Spain’s Massiel “La La La”.
April 10th, “Congratulations” is Cliff’s ninth No.1 in British charts.
All over Europe, Cliff’s “Congratulations” is outselling the winning song.
E.P “Congratulations” (SEG 8540 Mono) is released.
Fifty-six versions of “Congratulations” released, including Cliff Richard’s 5 versions, Cliff sings in German, French, Italian and Spanish.
Cliff Richard and the Settlers gospel concerts.

1969: “Cliff In Scotland” is entered the Montreux Film Festival.
Cliff’s latest single “Good Times (Better Times) is new entry in South Africa.

1970: BBC Radio presents “The Cliff Richard Story”.
Cliff Richard speaks and sings at Kingsway, London.

1971: “Silvery Rain”/ “Annabella Umbrella”/ “Time Flies” (DB 8774) released.
Cliff Richard’s single “Sunny Honey Girl” is new entry in South Africa Singles chart.

1972: The Sun presents the award to Cliff Richard for “Top Male Pop Personality” for the third year running.
Cliff Richard appears in a special Gospel concert at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, for charity.

1973: Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg, is screened in 32 countries to over 300 million viewers.
Cliff’s “Power To All Our Friends” came third.
E.P “Eurovision Special” (EMI 2022) is released.
Cliff Richard appears in concerts across Australia, under the banner “Help, Hope and Hallelujah”, Cliff sings “Sing A Song Of Freedom”, “How Great Thou Art”, “Day By Day”, “Everything Is Beautiful”, “Silvery Rain” and “Jesus Loves You”.

1974: Cliff Richard begins a season at the London Palladium, Cliff’s sings “Constantly”, “Take Me High”, “In The Country”, “Dancing Shoes”, “Do You Wanna Dance” and a duet with Pat Carroll “You Got What It Takes”.

1975: Cliff Richard attends “Way to Life” rally at Empire Pool, Wembley. Cliff speaks of his Christian conversion and continuing faith.
Cliff sings “Didn’t He”, “Love Never Gives Up” and “Why Me Lord”.

1976: Cliff Richard’s 66th single “Devil Woman”/“Love On (Shine On)” (EMI 2485) released.

1977: Cliff Richard appears on Top Of The pops singing “My Kinda Life”.
Cliff Richard’s “Hey Mr. Dream Maker” is new entry in South Africa Singles chart.

1980: “Carrie” enters the UK Top Ten, peaking at No.3
In USA, “Carrie” enters the charts and becomes Cliff Richard’s fifth biggest success in USA, peaks at No.34

1981: Cliff Richard’s concerts at the Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio and at Park West in Chicago, U.S.A.

1982: Family magazine, the Surrey Herald and Guildford Church magazine interview Cliff Richard.
Cliff receives the TV Times Awards at Thames TV’s Teddington Studio.
Cliff Richard visits Northern Ireland.

1983: Cliff Richard’s latest single are two songs recorded live at The Royal Albert Hall “True Love Ways”/ “Galadriel” (EMI 5385) are released.

1984: Cliff Richard and Bill Latham go to Haiti, Port-au-Prince and La Gonave.
Cliff Richard writes a song about La Ganave titled “La Gonave”.

1986: A Royal preview of “Time” – the musical at London’s Dominion Theatre for cancer research in the presence of the Duchess of Kent. Cliff plays as a rock star.
Cliff Richard’s new version of “Living Doll” with The Young Ones tops the U.K. Singles chart.

1993: “Cliff Richard -The Album” and “Access All Areas” video released and both are at No.1 in the album and video charts.

1995: Cliff’s “The Hit List Tor-South Africa from April 11th to April 17th.

1996: Cliff Richard’s compilation album “Move It” (FFCD 851 EMI) released.

1998: On Thursday April 23rd, it was time for the "Dutch Edison Award Gala". Cliff received a ‘Lifetime Edison Award’ for all records, hits and performances in the past 40 years. Cliff sang a medley of "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Some People".

2000: Cliff Richard appear on ‘Top Ten’ TV series.

2002: “Reunited” a duet song by Cliff Richard and Lulu will be releasing on Lulu's ‘Together’ album in May.
Sir Cliff Richard attended a charity preview of ‘Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang’ at the London Palladium.
EMI will releases Cliff’s four re-mastered albums with bonus tracks on CDs, “Green Light”, “Now You See Me, Now You Don't”,
“Silver” and “Every Face Tells A Story” in July.
Cliff ’s 129th single “Let Me Be The One” / “I Got A Woman” / “This Can’t Be Love-My Funny Valentine (CLIDDCD2) released.
Cliff Richard performed “Let Me Be The One” on Top Of The Pops.
Cliff’s latest single “Let Me Be The One” becomes Cliff’s 124th hit single in UK, and 109th Top Thirty on the UK charts.
Cliff’s three most successful movies “The Young Ones”, “Summer Holiday” and “Wonderful Life” will be release on DVD in U.S.A.
April 28th, Cliff Richard interviewed with David Frost on ‘BBC Breakfast with David Frost’.

2003: Cliff Richard will record two duets songs with popular Belgian singer Helmut Lotti in May; “Mary’s Boy Child” will appear on Cliff's Christmas album which will be released at the end of this year and “Danny Boy” on Helmut Lotti’s album.

2004: Sir Cliff Richard’s “Live and Kicking” concerts from April 3 to 24 at The Royal Albert Hall, London.
Cliff sings a mix of rock 'n' roll classics, many of his hits and four songs from his upcoming studio album, “Heartbreak Hotel”, “Move It”, “Livin' Lovin' Doll”, “Baby I Don't Care”, “My Babe”, “I'm Walking”, “Without You”, “We Say Yeah”, “Baby It's You-Save The Last Dance For Me-Donna”, “Silhouettes”, “Always”, “Baby I Could Be So Good At Loving You”, “The Young Ones”, “Living Doll”, “Bachelor Boy”, “Nine Times Out Of Ten”, “Please Don't Tease”, “A Voice In The Wilderness”, “Good Golly Miss Molly”, “Miss You Nights”, “Ocean Deep”, “We Don't Talk Anymore”, “Devil Woman”, “From A Distance”, “I Don't Want To Loose You”, “The Day That I Stop Loving You”, “I Cannot Give You My Love”, “Sometimes Love (Lay Your Bets Down)”, “What Car?”, “Willie And The Hand Jive”, “Thousand Miles To Go (Moving On)” and “The Faithful One”.
“The World Tour” CD is released in the U.K.
Recorded on 23-04-2004 (Broadcast on 16-5-2004)
Sir Cliff Richard appears on ‘Songs Of Praise’ to mark 50th anniversary of Billy Graham’s preaching crusade in London, Sir Cliff sings “It Is No Secret” and explains why he sang that song and chose to make his faith public at a Billy Graham rally in 1966.


2005: Sir Cliff Richard spent a week travelling in India with his friends and visited Agra, Jaipur, Pune, and Mumbai.
He also visited Dubai for a few days before returning to the UK.
On Saturday 9th April, Cliff attended the Grand National with friends.

2006: April 20th Cliff Richard with friends and CRO staff, attended a dinner in his honour at the Portuguese Embassy in London, where he was invested as a 'Commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator', in recognition of his personal and business involvement in Portugal over the past 40 years.