Original sentence: After the Shadows split in 1968, Cliff Richard had to record without his band.As time progressed, he balanced his life and work out, enabling him to still be one of the most popular singers in Britain while also one of the best known Christians.First of all Richard believed that he should quit rock n roll, as he thought he could no longer be the rocker who had in the early years been called a 'crude exhibitionist' and 'too sexy for TV' and a threat to parents' daughters, although his image had already become tamer due to his film roles and well spoken voice on radio and TV.Initially intending to reform his ways and become a teacher, Christian friends told him that he didn't have to give his career up just because he had become a Christian.To stand up publicly as a new Christian was a decision which affected his career in various ways
Edited sentence: After intending to become a teacher instead, Christian friends told him that he didn't have to give his career up just because he had become a Christian.After the Shadows split in 1968, resulting also in the split of Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Richard had to record without his band.Although his image had already become tamer due to his film roles and well spoken voice on radio and TV, he still rocked on stage.As time progressed, he balanced his life and work out, enabling him to still be the most popular singer in Britain while also one of the best known Christians.First of all Richard believed that he should quit rock n roll, as he thought he could no longer be the rocker who had in the early years been called a 'crude exhibitionist' and 'too sexy for TV' and a threat to parents' daughters.He has become an artist who has not been categorised in one single mould, but has been a wild rock n roller, a ballad singer, a heavy rock singer, who even found it natural to move into dance beats.Strangely enough, those who were initially sceptical of his move into other types of songs, later changed in their own beliefs and did similarly on their own records.To stand up publicly as a new Christian was a big and brave decision which affected his career in various ways