About Cliff Richards.

About Sir Cliff Richard – christened Harry Webb.

I have always had a kind of moderated empathy with the pop star (Sir) Cliff Richard, although our paths have only occasionally crossed – and then many years ago in his early days of fame.  Although we were born thousands of miles apart – him in India and me in the East End of London and with only 4 months between us-  I found him to be a very pleasant and polite person despite already  being an incredibly popular ( and talented ) entertainer from the very start of his career. And from recent  media coverage he  still seems to be basically the same kind of person.

Of course his homosexuality – once hidden from the public for many years – is now common knowledge, a fact which he now has to cope with after the many years of adoration by his millions of loyal female ( & many male ) fans.  

His 1963 hit song Batchelor Boy ( the line “happy to be a bachelor boy until his dying day” might have given us a clue to his sexuality then) has come to be actual fact as Cliff has never married although several unsuccessful attempts have been made to link him to possible girlfriends.  He is of course and always will be a committed homosexual , his brain irreversibly damaged from birth. ( see my essay Homosexuality the Cause & Effect.) 

Unfortunately he has had a bit of a rough time lately what with the internet and what is laughingly called social media able to say anything they like about him, while any attempts by him to put his side of the story only tend to make things look even worse than they really are.

Cliff is now a old man and most of the time despite the stress , the make up and his extreme wealth looks it for most of the time he is exposed to the pubic gaze. 

He still has a wonderful singing voice and is also fortunate in being able to get away from it all to his very private small vineyard estate , possibly with some kind of friend/companion of similar  lifestyle/persuasion.

I do feel very sorry for him as he had no choice in his inherited genetic lifestyle and like very many homosexuals terribly unhappy with their lot has tried just about everything possible to try to correct it , but of course to no avail at all. 

And there is not very much more than I can say about it - except to wish him luck for the future.