This song by Cliff Richard reminds me of my late mother who was one of
Cliff’s biggest fans. Back in the 1970s Cliff toured the country annually and
would play the De Montfort Hall in Leicester every year where my mother would
go and see him.
As we got older she got into the habit of taking my brother and I along
and I spent a number of years watching Cliff perform. On the basis that Cliff
had been performing for donkeys’ years, by the time we went to see him, he had
a set of tried and tested numbers, which he nearly always performed. I
distinctly recall him saying ‘Every now and again a truly great song comes
along, but until it does I’ll do one of Hank Marvin’s!’ as an introduction to
‘The Day I Met Marie’ and I have heard him use this introduction many times
lives as well as on tv and various other live recordings!
This song however is a truly
great song and with my mother and brother I have heard Cliff sing it many
times. It was my mother’s favourite and she had it on a album and we listened
to it regularly.
Every time I hear this song it reminds me of those concerts and my
mother who I still miss very much. I know she would have loved to have seen my
children.
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