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Fri 11 Nov 2007Could Radiohead's faith be deeper than Sir Cliff's?You've got to hand it to Cliff Richard, with his sanctimonious Christian grin, his weird hair that never moves and his fake chumminess that makes you want to take a baseball bat to him.Richard started as an Elvis tribute act, but when the real rock'n'rollers turned up he quickly retreated into easy- listening, co-opted God and has gone on to become reliably irritating at every turn.