Thank You Very Much (album)

Thank You Very Much is an album of the March 1978 reunion concerts at the London Palladium by English singer Cliff Richard and the group that backed him in the 1950s and 1960s The Shadows. It was released in February 1979 on the EMI label and reached No. 5 in the UK Albums Chart.

Contents

• Track listing
• Personnel
• Technical personnel
• Songs
• References

The concert had sections with Richard and The Shadows playing together, The Shadows playing alone and Richard playing more recent material with his own band. There was also an acoustic section credited as Cliff, Hank and Bruce.

The material played spans from the 1958 debut single "Move It" to tracks from Richard's gospel album Small Corners released only a month before the concert (although only "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music" made the original album). Although "Please Don't Tease" was originally a number one hit for Cliff Richard and The Shadows in 1960, the version played here is the rearranged version from the B-side of the 1978 single "Please Remember Me" and is played by Cliff's band. The album closes with a cover of Dennis Wilson's "End of the Show" (the closing track from his Pacific Ocean Blue album). The repeated refrain of that song is where the album title Thank You Very Much comes from.

The original album only contains fifteen tracks. A CD version released in 2004 adds three more tracks but the entire concert has never been released. A video version of the concert with the same title features clips and interviews.