07/11/2013 The One Show

Hello, welcome to your first date episode of the one show. Introducing

Fearne Cotton! Thank you, Chris. I am here instead of Alex, because

they are heading to Northern Ireland for the start of the Team Rickshaw

challenge. Good luck! What would we be without it? We could be in

trouble straight off the bat, as we both work for radio stations that in

the past have... Ban our superstar guest's records. This could be

awkward. However, he may have handed us a get out of jail free card. He

is feeling quite rebellious at the moment. Sir Cliff Richard! Welcome

to the programme! How are you? Here we go! Your latest rock and roll

phase, is it rebellion or revolution? It is returning to the

grassroots. I am never sure why people fought for control force

rebellious, it was fabulous to listen to, we just wanted to give

it. It was different, and difference is perceived as rebellion. Any kind

of art form can be used to be rebellious, you can paint a picture

which presents your political viewpoint. I always feel art is

neutral, and you can use it for this or that. I'd use it to make myself

feel good, and hopefully others do it to feel good as well. Other

people make the statements I do not need to make. More from Cliff

Richard later. Calendar was with one Direction, being the meat in a bigot

between Elvis and the Beatles, and a shake of the hits! -- meat in a

baguette. Fight are not so convinced about buses in Liverpool.

Meet Peter, the delivery driver on the clock. And Lynn, who gets the

bus to work. Nobody likes sitting in traffic, especially in rush-hour.

They do it every day through Liverpool. Named this week is one of

Britain's most congested cities. But the council think they have got the

solution. They will scrap all of the bus lanes, because they think that

will ease the traffic congestion. Will it work? We have come to find

out by testing it, while the bus lanes are in operation, and

afterwards. Here is Lynne on the last day of the bus lanes. Or her

mornings about to turn voice? Let the test again. He is the stop

watch, press your button. When the bus lane goes, it will be

bumper-to-bumper. Do you see a lot of road rage? Yes. Our motorists

jealous of people in bus lanes? Yes, I have turned down a lift because it

is quicker to get the bus. The journey's end. 48 minutes 57. How

does that compare? That is a normal journey, about 40, 45 minutes. Peter

is hoping things can only get better, he tried to down and he is

not a fan. -- not a fan of the bus lanes. It is causing a backlog of

traffic in and out of the city. Instead of free-flowing traffic, we

have more congestion. When they take the lanes out, it will make my day

easier, instead of prolonging the day. Other cities have travelled's

tried similar schemes, but Liverpool is the first to try scrapping all of

the bus lanes. The idea came from the mayor. It will allow the traffic

to flow much smoother. If it does not work, do you think the voters

will perceive that as you getting it wrong? I will hold my hands up and

we will change them back. Nobody can argue with that. It is three weeks

later, Lynne's bus lane is no more. It is her first day back at work

since we last met. Back then, her journey took just under the

fortifying -- just under 49 minutes. If it does work, you will be fine.

Otherwise, I will have to leave early. That is the bus lane. People

have parked in the bus lane. We are mixed in with everyone else. Will we

beat the time? I do not think there will be much difference. I think it

will be pretty close. We made it, what is the time? 55 minutes 50. She

gets into work seven minutes later than last time. But Peter has

enjoyed the last few weeks, he has finally got out of first gear. It is

easier, knowing there is another lane available that you can use, and

not necessarily be in a traffic jam. Do you think these will become

as clogged as everywhere else? I cannot envisage lots of traffic. We

have checked in with them as the week has gone on, data has been

getting around more quickly in the evening rush-hour as well. But most

of Lynne's journeys are taking over an hour. What is it like for

others? It is stupid, and a lot of people use bus at night because they

know we can use the bus lane. Now it has gone, it is hard for us now.

They should have stayed, because it helps the buses travel through the

city quicker. More efficient, and it might save some accident. In nine

months, they will put some back and cost us a fortune. Rush-hour is

coming to an end, I know our experiment is not scientific, so it

is hard to know if it is the end of the bus lanes, but bus passenger

Lynne was sitting pretty, now she hates it, Peter was frustrated, now

he loves it. There is a famous old song, please, please me. The

Mayor's version has to be, you cannot please everybody.

It is an interesting experiment, my uncle is able strive. He is! He will

be on a bus now. Can anybody else verify it? Please e-mail us. Have

you got any pictures of her uncle? In the Harrow area! Did you drive

that bus? Did he have to go around the skid patch? Just in case the bus

goes out of control, they have got a skid patch. The driver said, this is

what it is like. I just ashamed that your uncle may have done the same. I

will ask him! It probably was him! What does he think about the lanes?

It is yet to come to London, I am not sure he would be too happy.

There has been far too much talk about my uncle! Let's talk about

rock and roll, because your album is brilliant old school rock 'n' roll.

Let's go back in time, can you remember the first moment you heard

Elvis Presley? Yes, somebody asked me, when did you really know what

you wanted to do? Some friends and I were walking in Waltham Cross, our

local place, and this guy pulled up in a Sichuan, and we went to have a

look at the car, the radio was on, we heard Elvis Presley. It changed

everything for me. That is when I knew I wanted to be that. I did not

know I would make it. You became the British Elvis Presley. The media

wanted to have an ansa to Alvis, but he was not a question, there was no

and said to him. He will be the prototype rock 'n' roll singer, he

gave this music in shape, a face, and we tried to tag on. Some of us

got lucky. The Beatles came along, did they spoil the party? You became

a sum which between them. I was before, the Beatles were the sum

which. Elvis was first, you were in the middle. I see what you mean, but

in every respect, we were five years before the Beatles. They were the

same age as us, there were two things I am so happy that they said,

John Lennon said, before us, there was not anything. And he also said

that we had its own up in Britain and so we left and went to Hamburg.

We played a part, we drove them out, they came back with all of these

songs and blew everybody off the stage. We were getting a bit

worried, my manager said, are you still touring? Are your records in

the charts? Yes, number one. He said, who cares? You have got your

piece of the pie. It does not matter who comes and goes, there were all

but the's there will always be somebody. One Direction will crush

through, there is always somebody. Anybody that smashes through, we all

benefit from it, it is the industry. Let's have a look at your single.

The original. # Let's move it and groove it.

# Please don't lose it. # The rhythm gets you to your heart

and soul. That is brilliant footage! I don't

know how I kept going, because when I see some of the footage, and I am

standing next to Marty Wilde, he looks so-called and I look like a

slob! You looks so-called! Isn't he gorgeous! Let's talk about

calendars, because you are always top of the charts, you mentioned one

Direction, they have picked you to the post in the calendar walls. Who

cares? I am 73, I am number two! People buy this each year. You have

got theirs, I will challenge you. Let's go for April.

Cliff wins! This is a big deal. It is like the Woolworths advert, when

your calendar is in the shops, it is Christmas. Now it is calendars, but

even the record you make, you sell more of your product between October

and December than you do the rest of the year. That is right they are

competing and winning, and they might not always when, and it is

like that with records. Shall we do the inevitable? The battle has gone

on long enough, you should get together. We have already had a

test, look at the monitor. What about this? Plus one! It is a genius

idea! When Justin Tim Blake was competing with me last year, I said,

performing his new single Rip It Up at the end of the show. Tomorrow

morning, Team Rickshaw will begin their 700 mile journey from Giant's

Causeway to Albert Square. Please donate. This is one to watch.

My name is picked, I am 17 and training to be a mechanic. Being a

mechanic is my dream job, I have been able to learn in the trade, it

has been brilliant. I cannot wait until I have passed my driving test,

but I have got my bike. I live in Cornwall, I like the freedom that it

allows me, I can go anywhere. I am looking forward to riding the

rickshaw, it will be a challenge. This is my dad. We have got a really

close relationship, that is why I have got through as much as I can,

he has been pushing me, he has said, you can do this, keep going. I was

in a car accident six years ago. I was 11. I broke both of my legs and

I lost my mother and sister. The first I knew about it was when I had

two policemen on my doorstep. They told me my daughter had died and my

son was in hospital with serious injuries. I only remember bits from

that day. I remember hearing this noise and the blades of the

helicopter going around and a guy who rescued me, telling me to relax.

They finally finished operated on him in the early hours of the

morning and it wasn't until about 11am when he asked me where his mum

and sister were, at which point I had to tell him. When I first went

back to school there was a lock of unwanted attention for a while,

people coming up and saying, are you all right? I wanted to go back to

school and pretend it had never happened. I would get angry at the

silliest things out of the blue. I would be like the angriest person

you would ever meet. I felt like I was losing my son. And... I got to

the point when I asked dad that I needed help. I contacted them

straightaway and they talked me through things. We are a charity

based in Cornwall and we respond to bereaved children throughout the

county. We acknowledge what has happened for them and we introduce

them to other young people who have had a similar experience and they

shared their stories. I am here to remember my mum and my sister.

Without Children in Need we would struggle to find the money to

support the children. Since I have been through what I have been

through, I know how much people benefit from charity and it has

urged me to go on and repaid the favour and I always thought I would

like to do something for Children in Need. They will be extremely proud

of what we are doing and they will be cheering us on all the way. A

couple of heroes. A round of applause. We will be cheering them

on. The rickshaw challenge starts tomorrow. If you would like to

donate, please tell us now. Take out your telephones now: For full terms

and conditions go onto the website. There is a new survey out today. It

does not actually say on there. One in three of us are set to bite into

our first mince pie this weekend. Fine by me, I personally love

Christmas. Sir Cliff Richard, after having four number ones, is it too

early to celebrate Christmas? I do not think it is ever too early, but

I still do not think it should be done to early or it is not special.

That is why a birthday is only on one day and when you think about it

it is another birthday, but we should try to hold back. But mince

pies, I could eat them in July. Lets see if people did enjoy eating them

in November. As of 7:30pm tonight there are still

quite a few days before Christmas, so is it a bit early to eat a mince

pie? I do not think so, I write Christmas -- I like Christmas. The

sooner it starts, the better. When it comes to mince pies, N, no,

December, yes. You do not want to overdo the mince pies? Does it look

like I am bothered? Are you a mince pie or a humbug? A humbug. A friend

asked me if it was too early to put up my Christmas lies and I said, get

a life. I absolutely hate it. That is not going to last until the 25th

of December. Well, I am giving it away. From mince pies to the

Cliffettes. How did you come about? We decided about 12 years ago we

needed to do something special, so we named ourselves Cliffettes. We

sing and we try and raise money for good causes. Either thousands of

you? No, there were four of us, but now it is just too. Are you open for

applications? Yes. What is your story? I have been researching all

of Cliff's recording material for a new book. The new album is the 100th

album. You all deserve to be on the sofa with Cliff. It is a very

special moment, have a hug. A few years before Cliff released his

first Christian rock album an army of religious soldiers were dipping

their toes into the pop world. 1964 was a watershed year for music. Top

of the Pops started on BBC One and the Rolling Stones released their

first album and the Beatles led the British invasion of America. The UK

was starting to swing and amongst those who jumped on the pop

bandwagon were some very unlikely suspects. They were a group of young

people training to be full time officers in the Salvation Army in

London. When their leader was asked how they could spread the Word of

God to the beat generation, the Salvation Army's first pop band was

born. Their first single was released in 1964 and was written by

the woman on the guitar. It was terrifying to start with because

everyone was expecting an already made pop band. I had never written a

song in my life. As soon as we started playing together we knew

that we could and this was a way to get across the Christian message

with music that suited the young people in the swinging 60s. Joy

became the driving force behind the band's sound. How did you condense

things into a three-minute pop song? Like this, for instance. That

does not sound like a pop song, but you get it twice as fast on a guitar

and it is. # I want to sing it, I want to shout it... #. And we played

that in Mayfair. The resident band, who were all West Indian, had crept

onto the stage and they were playing with us and it was tremendous. The

place was rocking. As the band blazed a trail for Christian pop,

their popularity soared, much to the surprise of the singer and her

husband Peter. Every time we did an engagement, we would say, that is

something we could tell their grandchildren. What was the

church's response? Very mixed because they were wondering where it

was all leading to. In 1967 they raised a few eyebrows when they

teamed up at an unlikely venue to raise money for the poor. Wii at the

Playboy club the accident was unbeaten music. How did that come

about? That feels like the oddest coupling of people. The Salvation

Army wanted something that would attract businessmen to give them

money. They said, yes, you can have my bunny girls, if I can have the

joy strings in the club for a three night. Backstage there would have

been the prices of the music industry. You were in amongst all

that. The management told us to talk about our faith with the clients.

They released 12 records and achieved unexpected chart success

and today the biggest royalties for the salvation's army Ajoy's songs.

Either time we got to 1968, we thought, we are trained for

something completely different, we are to be ministers. They are

singing one more time for us. # it brings a glory to myself. #.

That is good advice and a nice guitar. There is no point in playing

something that the kids would not listen to. Yes, you have two play

something that everyone will listen to. I quite like it here, can I come

back tomorrow? If you do not, we are stuffed. This is Cliff with Rip It

Up from his new album, The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook.

# Well, it's Saturday night and I just got paid. # Fool about my

money, don't try to save. # My heart says go, go, have a time. # 'Cos

Saturday night, baby, I feel fine. # We're gonna rock it up, rock it up.

# I'm gonna rip it up, rip it up, yeah. # I'm gonna shake it up, shake

it up. # I'm gonna ball it up, ball it up, yeah. # I'm gonna rock it up,

rock it up, at the ball tonight. # Well, I've got me a date and I won't

be late. # Picked my baby up in my 88. # Right on down by the union

hall. # When the joint starts jumpin', I'll have a ball.

# We're gonna rock it up, rock it up. # I'm gonna rip it up, rip it

up, yeah. # I'm gonna shake it up, shake it up. # I'm gonna ball it up,

ball it up, yeah. # I'm gonna rock it up, rock it up, at the ball

tonight. # Well, along about ten I'm flying

high. # Walking on out on the groovy sky. # Well, I don't care if I spend

my dough. # 'Cos tonight I'm gonna be one happy soul. # We're gonna

rock it up, rock it up. # I'm gonna rip it up, rip it up, yeah. # I'm

gonna shake it up, shake it up. # I'm gonna ball it up, ball it up,

yeah. # I'm gonna rock it up, rock it up. # At the ball tonight.

# Well, it's Saturday night and I just got paid. # Fool about my

money, don't try to save. # My heart says go, go, have a time. # 'Cos

Saturday night and, baby, I'm feelin' fine. # We're gonna rock it

up, rock it up. # I'm gonna rip it up, rip it up, yeah. # I'm gonna

shake it up, shake it up. # I'm gonna ball it up, ball it up, yeah.

# I'm gonna rock it up, rock it up at the ball tonight. # We're gonna

rock it up, rock it up. # I'm gonna rip it up, rip it up, yeah. # I'm

gonna shake it up, shake it up. # I'm gonna ball it up, ball it up,

yeah. # I'm gonna rock it up, rock it up.# At the ball tonight. #.