00:00The Vries knew that the fans would forget Elvis in Europe.
00:04However, Cliff Richard scored his first big hit with Move It.
00:09I'm going to the London city of Surrey,
00:12because I want to hear from Sir Cliff what Elvis meant in his life.
00:18In his early years, the relationship with Elvis was never far away.
00:23The newspapers lettered then, Cliff Richard is the European answer to Elvis.
00:30When you think, I was 16 when I was still at school.
00:33Sixteen and a half, I left school. I was a big Elvis fan.
00:37By seventeen and a half, I read headlines in the paper saying,
00:42Elvis and Cliff battle it out in the charts.
00:46I'm thinking, first of all, I'm in the same headline as Elvis.
00:51Cliff and Elvis. It's unbelievable. It was impossible.
00:53So I was really thrilled.
00:55Can you explain to me the first time that you heard Elvis Presley?
01:00Well, it changed my whole life, really, because some friends and I were walking in our hometown,
01:06and a car had pulled up by a shop, and the window was down, and the radio was on.
01:12And then suddenly we heard,
01:14Well, since my baby left me, Heartbreak Hotel.
01:17And we went, Oh! And we listened, and before we could hear who the man was,
01:24the man who owned the car came and drove away.
01:27And we thought, No! So for about a week we listened to it with the radio,
01:31and finally we heard Elvis. We discovered it was Elvis Presley.
01:35And that really was a changing thing for me, because then I wanted to try and be like Elvis.
01:41Come on, pretty baby, let's move it and move it.
01:48Shake a baby, shape a honey, breathe on the roof.
01:51The pop stars of that era were Frank Sinatra and Ben Crosby.
01:56Suddenly, this man-child appears, and he's got the big hair and the long sideburns,
02:05and he had that lip that went like this, and it just was different.
02:10It looked different to me, and I believe that he began a whole new way of looking.
02:17Rock and roll to me is still based on Elvis.
02:20Doesn't matter if you're Michael Jackson, any movement he does,
02:25Elvis was the first to go like this with his legs and pull different poses with the body.
02:36Could we make a mixture of our two versions of All Shook Up?
02:41I have my guitar. I thought, you know, if we're two of us going to sit together,
02:45we should sing something. This is unrehearsed.
02:55Well, bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
02:59I met you like a man upon a fuzzy tree.
03:02My friends say I'm acting just as wild as a bug. I'm in love.
03:07I'm all shook up.
03:09Oh, oh, oh.
03:12Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:16Oh, well, my hands are shaking and my knees are weak.
03:20I can't even see them standing on my own feet.
03:23Ooh, do you think the way you have such an upcoming love?
03:28I'm all shook up.
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