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40th Anniversary Tour

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Associated album
  
Real As I Wanna Be

End date
  
18 July 1999

Start date
  
5 February 1998

Legs
  
5

No. of shows
  
41 in UK / Ireland 12 in Australia 2 in New Zealand 9 in Europe

The 40th Anniversary Tour was a Cliff Richard worldwide tour that reinforced his status as a music icon, in conjunction with promoting associated new release album "Real As I Wanna Be" and performing songs from his 40-year career. The 1998-1999 arena- tour included shows in UK, Ireland, Europe and Australia / New Zealand. For the performances in the latter two countries some special guests were also lined up.

Contents

Set List

  1. From A Distance
  2. Do You Wanna Dance?
  3. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
  4. Softly As I Leave You
  5. All That Matters
  6. Daddy's Home
  7. Real As I Wanna Be
  8. I Will Always Love You (Barratt Waugh)
  9. Miss You Nights
  10. The Twelfth Of Never (With Michelle Wolf)
  11. Through The Fire (Michelle Wolf)
  12. Some People
  13. Wired For Sound
  14. Move It
  15. Even If It Breaks My Heart
  16. Can't Keep This Feeling In
  17. Every time We Say Goodbye
  18. We Don't Talk Anymore
  19. She Makes Me Feel Like A Man
  20. The Miracle
  21. Butterfly Kisses
  22. Vita Mia (With Vencenzo La Scola)
  23. Devil Woman
  24. Ocean Deep
  25. It'll Be Me
  26. Peace In Our Time

Personnel

The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Conducted By Nick Ingman

Guest artists

Barratt Waugh & Michelle Wolf, Guest Singers

Alan Park - Keyboards
Peter May - Drums & Percussion
John Clark - Guitars
Steve Stroud - Bass Guitar
Mike Haughton & Mark Taylor - Saxophones
Pete Beachill - Trombone
Mick Mullins, Keith Murrell & Peter Lincoln - Backing Singers
Claudia Fontaine, Fay Simpson, Chris Ballin & Paul Johnson - Additional Backing Singers

Notes

  • New Zealand concerts were performed with New Zealand Symphony and Olivia Newton-John as a guest performer.
  • Australia concerts were performed with Australian Philharmonic and Olivia Newton-John as a guest performer.
  • 21 and 22 September 1998 were two free concerts for fan club members to record 40th Anniversary video.
  • 32 sell out concerts in a row at the Royal Albert Hall, London for Cliff Richard, the most by any artist.
  • Breaks records with the longest ever residence at Londons RAH. All 90,000 tickets for 20 dates sell out in 36 hours so a further 12 are added.

    • References

    40th Anniversary Tour Wikipedia
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