A Voice In The Wilderness
The best home-grown rock ‘n’ roll movie of the 1950s, Expresso Bongo was a satire on the earliest days of the youth-music boom, with Laurence Harvey playing a cynical manager who manipulates everyone he meets in his quest for success. Among the songs performed by his naïve protégé Bongo Herbert, played by Cliff Richard, is ‘A Voice In The Wilderness’ – a record destined “to introduce a new era to the hit parade”, according to his manager. It was a prediction that turned out to be as prophetic for Cliff as it was for Bongo Herbert.
Read all about it in ‘The Restless Generation’ by Pete Frame.
