"Living Doll" is a song written by Lionel Bart made popular by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (then still known as 'the Drifters') in 1959.

The idea for the song came on a Sunday morning in October 1958 while reading a newspaper and seeing an advert for a child's doll.

[1][2][3] The song was recorded in April 1959 by Cliff Richard and the Drifters and produced by Norrie Paramor.

[7] Richard was awarded a Silver Disc on 1 November 1959, on the television show Sunday Night at the Palladium.

It went on to sell over a million copies worldwide and earned the record company's internally awarded Gold Disc for the achievement.

He wrote, "We'd just put out 'Michelle' and I remember one night at the Ad Lib club David Bailey hearing it and saying 'You've go to be joking - it is tongue in cheek, isn't it?'

Despite the apparent contrast between the anarchic comedians and the clean cut Richard, he agreed and their version again topped the UK Singles Chart, for three weeks from March 1986.

When the song was performed in the 1986 television broadcast for Comic Relief, The Young Ones announced to the audience that Richard could not make the show and that well-known BBC presenter John Craven would be taking his place.