So, does this mean Cliff is now in permanent exile from Britain? The singer, who was born in India but raised in Waltham Cross and Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, has been splitting his time between his farm in Portugal and magnificent villa in Barbados for some time.
He is, I'm told, no longer a UK resident and has not been for some time. 'He's barely been in the UK on a permanent basis for years and years,' a friend told me last week. The flat in Berkshire was his last toe-hold in Britain. When it has gone, only sentiment will bind him here.
And yet his friends don't like the word 'exile'. They think it implies a flight from the police investigation, and say that emphatically is not the case. One said: 'To say he's in exile makes it sound as if he is on the run or in hiding and he is not.
'He is simply living at the properties he owns elsewhere. He is selling the property in the UK, but that doesn't mean he won't buy another.'
Indeed, Cliff is believed to already be looking to buy another property in the UK — most likely in Surrey. But it will not be a home he spends much time in, more a bolthole.
Cliff will be in Britain for nearly three weeks from the end of September, performing in locations including Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester before concluding with a seven-night residency at the Royal Albert Hall around his 75th birthday in October.
Cliff is believed to already be looking to buy another property in the UK — most likely in Surrey, pictured after the allegations were first made about him
He has been offered hospitality by his many friends and may well end up as the guest of Surinder Arora, the super-wealthy hotel tycoon who says Sir Cliff is 'like a brother'.
Ticket sales for the shows, despite everything, have been brisk. Those still on offer are all resales at inflated prices, some with an asking price of up to £170 and a face value of £40.
It seems his '75th Birthday Tour', put together in the face of the police inquiry, will give the Cliff faithful a chance to demonstrate their loyalty.
As will the planned release of an album he has been recording in Nashville — a collection of covers of classics called The Fabulous Rock 'N' Roll Songbook Vol 2, which follows on from a similar album in 2013. Astonishingly, this will be his 101st album.
There are plans for a Christmas record, too. And a stint performing on a Mediterranean cruise ship is pencilled in for next year, which will mean his diary is full until just a shade short of his 76th birthday.
These bookings are very lucrative. And it could be argued all this activity indicates considerable defiance.
After a period of solitude, it seems Sir Cliff is preparing to put up a fight for his public image — which had been blameless for 55 years. Perhaps his advisers thought he should go ahead as the police inquiries might be over by the time of the concerts.
But any hopes Cliff had that the allegations would prove an unpleasant flash in the pan appear misplaced. The initial probe centred on an allegation by a middle-aged man involving abuse when he was aged under 16 at a Christian rally in 1985.
Two new alleged victims have come forward since, and South Yorkshire Police have set up Operation Kaddie to investigate the allegations. Detectives have taken statements from a number of witnesses already. Prosecutors are liaising with police, too, after officers received a significant number of new lines of inquiry.
Sir Cliff's lawyers are apparently being briefed about the inquiry by the South Yorkshire force every two weeks. In his statement, made in February, Sir Cliff said: 'I have no idea where these absurd and untrue allegations come from. The police have not disclosed details to me.
'I have never, in my life, assaulted anyone and I remain confident that the truth will prevail. I have co-operated fully with the police, and will, of course, continue to do so.
'Beyond stating that the allegations are completely false, it would not be appropriate for me to say anything further until the investigation has concluded, which I hope will be very soon. In the meantime, I would, again, like to thank everyone for supporting me through this unbelievably difficult period.'
He has spent much of the nine months since the raid, which he first saw in images beamed worldwide by the BBC, at his farm in Portugal with long-time companion John McElynn, a former priest. Cliff flew back to the UK to face detectives on August 24 and was interviewed under caution, but not arrested. Then he returned to Portugal. He remains furious the police notified the BBC of the raid so they could film it.
Sir Cliff, famously clean-living and Christian, takes pride in his reputation as the nicest man in pop. His record-breaking career (he's sold 250 million records and has a £50 million fortune) is built on that image.
His nearest neighbour in Portugal, Anabela Sousa, says: 'He is definitely not guilty. In England, you seem to be accusing all your famous people of these things, and maybe some are bad people, but not Cliff.' Estate agent Vivien Desa has known him since the early Sixties. 'People here are very sympathetic to him over this,' she says. 'He is enormously well-respected and the feeling is he has been badly treated. This allegation just doesn't fit with the Cliff Richard they meet in the community.'
Sir Cliff's lawyers are apparently being briefed about the inquiry by the South Yorkshire force every two weeks, pictured with his friend Father John McElynn in Malibu
Cliff is very much at home in Portugal. He loves his yellow-painted farmhouse, with its olive and almond groves and tennis court.
He usually stays until the end of August, then goes to New York to watch the U.S. Open and, from there, on to his magnificent six-bedroom Barbados home. At his side at all times will be McElynn, a tall, burly man known for his bonhomie. He and Cliff have been inseparable for 15 years.
Officially, he is the singer's property manager but, as Cliff wrote in his 2008 autobiography, he is a friend, too. 'He has also become a companion, which is great because I don't . . . like living alone, even now,' wrote Cliff.
'And crucially, he knows how to work computers and send and pick up emails and handle all those technological things that seem to be so vital today, and that I know so little about.'
Indeed, Cliff's life is now chronicled on Facebook and Twitter pages. His week in Denmark touring with his wine is featured, as is a wine-tasting event at his vineyard in Portugal.
Old pal Gloria Hunniford says he has been tremendously moved and buoyed by the support of thousands of fans who have got in touch via social media to assure him they still believe in him.
Maybe this helps to drive him on — even though the shadow hanging over him has reduced him to a shadow of his former self.相关的主题文章:
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