Cliff Richard
When asked about violence at his early shows, Cliff explained: “There was. We got popular very quickly and suddenly my picture was on the front of magazines, journalists were calling me the English Elvis and girls were calling out my name and yelling that they loved me at our gigs.
“Well they may have loved me but their Teddy Boy boyfriends didn’t.
“They got jealous and they tried to beat me up. It was pathetic.
“I wanted to say to the Teddy Boys, ‘If your girlfriends are so keen on me, you must be doing something badly wrong, he added to OK magazine.
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Cliff Richard, 80, rose to fame in 1958 and was often referred to as the British Elvis Presley. But looking back at his successful career, the Move It singer admitted he was glad he never broke America.