No Rock And Roll Fun

BEYOND 100: Somehow, in our coverage of the musicians in the 100 Greatest Britons yesterday, we neglected to mention Cliff Richard. This wasn't intended as a slight - although the goodwill left after Mistletoe and Wine and Saviour's Day is patchy to say the least. Let's instead remember Cliff as the way I'm sure he'd want to. Called to appear on Comic Relief's live show with the cast of the Young Ones, Cliff obliges. He's later shocked to discover the live video which is released featuring him has swearing on it, and insists his part be excised for further pressings. Never mind the cost, and never mind this is all in aid of charity. And never mind that the works of Mayall et al were already well known for being swear-heavy. His saintliness was far more important than that.

Further beyond: We made a frantic note to mention this before, and then ignored it - but how grinding must Costello's teeth have been to have heard his version of 'She' being used on the Thatcher segment? The man who wrote Tramp The Dirt Down must have been slightly pissed off, we'd suggest.