At 84, Cliff Richard stepped onto the worn floor of an old London studio, his footsteps echoing where it had all begun. Across the room, a single guitar leaned in the corner — and in the silence he could almost hear Hank Marvin’s unmistakable twang ringing out beside him, just as it had the first time they played “Move It.” No screaming fans now, no thunder of a teenage revolution — only the ghost of a riff that had once set everything in motion. Cliff smiled faintly, eyes glistening, and whispered to the empty air: “We didn’t just play a song, Hank… we started something.” And in that moment, the birth of rock ’n’ roll in Britain wasn’t history at all — it was alive again, beating softly in the quiet room where it first caught fire.
When “Move It” was released in August 1958, few could have predicted the seismic impact...