Cliff Richard, the teenyboppers’ delight pre-The Beatles in the early 1960s, is still going strong into his mid eighties. He has announced his Can’t Stop Me Now tour to Australia, New Zealand and the UK in 2025.
He started as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Presley and Little Richard with his backing group, the Shadows, but an increased focus on his Christian faith led to a more middle-of-the-road image. In a career over 65 years, he has collected several gold and platinum discs and awards, including two Ivor Novello Awards and three Brit Awards though he never made the same inroads into the USA music scene.
Born 14 October 1940 9.10 pm (rectified and unconfirmed) in Lucknow, India, he came to the UK aged 6 when violence broke out pre-independence and partition.
He has a Libra Sun largely unaspected in his performing 5th house; with his Mercury in Scorpio also in his 5th opposition Saturn Jupiter in Taurus widely square Pluto in his financial 2nd house – thus a fixed T square giving him endurance and a stubborn streak. He also has a 12th house Uranus exactly conjunct Algol in a creative trine to Neptune.
His 10th house Aries Moon, suiting him for a public career is in a possessive trine to Pluto and a fractious opposition to Mars in his domestic 4th house. His Venus in Virgo trines Saturn Jupiter.
An unaspected Sun will make him defensive and independent, aloof and absorbed within his own world.
His romantic life has always been a subject of intrigue for the media with a string of high profile ladies at one point who never made it up the altar and he has lived for some years with an ex-priest and his mother.
When the police raided his Berkshire home in 2014 as part of the Operation Yewtree post the Jimmy Savile scandal, tr Neptune was conjunct his Midheaven and tr Saturn in Scorpio was opposition his Taurus planets as he expressed outrage at the publicised operation and retired to Portugal thereafter for a few years. No evidence was found and he subsequently successfully sued the BBC and South Yorkshire Police for damages.
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