Next Year, Rock Hall of Fame Should Induct Cliff Richard and The Shadows

April 11, 2012 - PRLog -- As the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame prepares for its annual induction ceremony on April 14th, it’s an appropriate time to suggest that the Hall rectify one of its oversights next year by inducting Cliff Richard and The Shadows in 2013, says radio host and author Jeff Bleiel.

“The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can expand its historical scope by giving proper due to what happened in England during the pre-Beatle years,” writes Bleiel in an editorial posted at the cliffrichard.radio.com website.  “Cliff Richard and The Shadows were the most popular and influential English group prior to the arrival of the Beatles.  They were essentially Britain’s first rock and roll band of any note, and they influenced countless British musicians, singers and bands.”

Bleiel is the host of “Wired For Sound: The Music of Cliff Richard,” a weekly internet radio program which airs on Artisan Radio (www.ArtisanRadio.com).  The one-hour show is North America’s only radio program dedicated to the music of Sir Cliff Richard.  Bleiel is also the program director and on-air host of the forthcoming internet station “Wired For Sound Radio,” which will launch later this spring and feature a continual stream of the music of Cliff Richard, The Shadows, and friends.

To read the complete Hall of Fame editorial, visit http://cliffrichardradio.com/cliff-richard-and-shadows-fo....

“Cliff Richard and The Shadows were very popular, very influential, and the majority of their records hold up well in relation to many other current Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees who were recording during that era,” says Bleiel, who places Richard and the band’s work in the same tier as that of Hall of Famers such as Rick Nelson, Bobby Darin and Del Shannon.  Bleiel is the author of the definitive book on Bobby Darin’s career, That’s All: Bobby Darin on Record, Stage & Screen (2004).

“Wired For Sound: The Music of Cliff Richard” debuted in June 2011 and airs each Wednesday at 3 pm Pacific time (6 pm Eastern time) with encore presentation on Saturday and Sunday at the same time.