Next month the Peter Pan of Pop - alias Cliff Richard - will be 60.

One of the first regional daily papers to pay tribute to his apparently endless appeal to legions of fans was the Sheffield Star.

And reporter Nick Ward, who wrote the article, has special reason to remember Cliff's loyal following.

He explained: "My mum is a fan, if not of his music, then certainly his look."

After seeing Cliff Richard on TV sporting what she described as a 'spikey fringe', she decided that a similar cut would suit the eight-year-old Nick fine.

At the barber's, Nick recalled, the snipper asked: "And what would Sir like today?"

"As per mum's instructions I replied: 'Spikey please, like Cliff Richard's'.

"But the barber obviously wasn't a Cliff fan. His idea of a spikey fringe was to cut my hair short but leave a long piece in the middle of my fringe.

"It was one and a half inches wide at the top and tapered down to a single spike which fell between my eyebrows and ended on the bridge of my nose."

Nick confessed to readers that he quite liked the look, but mum did not. She dragged him back to the barber's for a piece of her mind.

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