We Say Yeah - Cliff and The Shadows - The Final Reunion - 2009 -4K
- last month
Filmed at the O2 Arena during their 50th anniversary tour, this captures Cliff and The Shadows at their very best.
The tour was billed as ‘The Final Reunion’, and if that is indeed the case, they couldn’t bow out on a higher note.
From the first note to the last, the whole concert is brought to life exactly as if you were actually there.
There were most of the hits from their time together, from ‘Move It’, through ‘Lining Doll’ to ‘In the Country’ and ‘Time Drags By’.
There’s even their new single ‘Singing The Blues’ as one of the encores.
What is especially nice about this is that they only perform songs they recorded when they were together, and that means that there are no Cliff Richard solo tracks and all The Shadows tracks are from the period when they were having hits in parallel to Cliff.
In fact, there are sections in each half where Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett – along with a trio of talented backing musicians – are left to entertain us on their own.
And what a feast of music we get: ‘Apache’, ‘Wonderful Land’ and ‘Atlantis’ to name but three.
Towards the end we are treated to ‘Summer Holiday’ and the finale of ‘The Young Ones’ bringing to an end the two hour plus show.
For the extras, we get a glimpse behind the scenes.
For those who mussed the concerts, it’s an accurate showing of what they missed.
For those who witnessed this reunion first-hand, it is a souvenir of an unforgettable night.
The tour was billed as ‘The Final Reunion’, and if that is indeed the case, they couldn’t bow out on a higher note.
From the first note to the last, the whole concert is brought to life exactly as if you were actually there.
There were most of the hits from their time together, from ‘Move It’, through ‘Lining Doll’ to ‘In the Country’ and ‘Time Drags By’.
There’s even their new single ‘Singing The Blues’ as one of the encores.
What is especially nice about this is that they only perform songs they recorded when they were together, and that means that there are no Cliff Richard solo tracks and all The Shadows tracks are from the period when they were having hits in parallel to Cliff.
In fact, there are sections in each half where Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett – along with a trio of talented backing musicians – are left to entertain us on their own.
And what a feast of music we get: ‘Apache’, ‘Wonderful Land’ and ‘Atlantis’ to name but three.
Towards the end we are treated to ‘Summer Holiday’ and the finale of ‘The Young Ones’ bringing to an end the two hour plus show.
For the extras, we get a glimpse behind the scenes.
For those who mussed the concerts, it’s an accurate showing of what they missed.
For those who witnessed this reunion first-hand, it is a souvenir of an unforgettable night.