Comments on: CLIFF RICHARD – “I Love You” http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/06/cliff-richard-i-love-you/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 13:50:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Victoria http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/06/cliff-richard-i-love-you/#comment-896085 Victoria Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:11:32 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/06/cliff-richard-i-love-you/#comment-896085 Well this a bit of a letdown after Roy and Elvis and its certainly hardly to believe this came from the UK pop scene in the very same year as Shakin All Over. They sound like they come from two completely different decades! Well this a bit of a letdown after Roy and Elvis and its certainly hardly to believe this came from the UK pop scene in the very same year as Shakin All Over. They sound like they come from two completely different decades!

]]> By: wichita lineman http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/06/cliff-richard-i-love-you/#comment-587299 wichita lineman Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:48:02 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/06/cliff-richard-i-love-you/#comment-587299 This didn't even make it onto Cliff's 40 Golden Greats in the late 70s which suggests 1. Cliff didn't like it much 2. They forgot it existed. But I do quite like the ultra-simplicity of the lyric because it is so, so dumb: "They say one and one is two / I'm one, and the other one's you." THEY say? Cliff wasn't about to let The Man trick him so easily... Francoise Hardy was a big fan; her early material is almost entirely based on Cliff and the Shadows' sound. This didn’t even make it onto Cliff’s 40 Golden Greats in the late 70s which suggests
1. Cliff didn’t like it much
2. They forgot it existed.

But I do quite like the ultra-simplicity of the lyric because it is so, so dumb: “They say one and one is two / I’m one, and the other one’s you.”

THEY say? Cliff wasn’t about to let The Man trick him so easily…

Francoise Hardy was a big fan; her early material is almost entirely based on Cliff and the Shadows’ sound.

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