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Chris Rea: Sunny Side Up?

Robert Sandall, Q, April 1991

Whenever he makes an album nowadays, it duly finds its way inside a million houses. The biggest of budgets are his to command. And yet Chris Rea is unimpressed by fame's fickle charms. "Corner-shop Chris, they call me," he tells Robert Sandall. "A pound to me is still a pound."

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