Chris Rea
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Chris Rea: The Road To Hell (Magnet WX 317)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 3 November 1989
CHRIS REA'S latest is not without its ironies, especially the "Thanks" column in the sleeve credits which includes "Everyone in all the governments". Compared to ...
Chris Rea: Santo Spirito Blues
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, September 2011
As blues homage this can't be faulted, but Rea doesn't allow his great voice to shine. ...
Chris Rea: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 1 February 1998
Dire Rea ...
Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 19 September 2017
'FOOL (IF YOU Think It's Over)' got Chris Rea out of debt, but it put him in a kind of musical prison that took seven ...
Chris Rea: Up from Cleveland... England
Profile and Interview by Mark Williams, Rolling Stone, 26 July 1979
Singer/songwriter with an edge ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 4 March 1951, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, April 1998
SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL movies (La Passione) and life threatening illnesses (collapsed colon and peritonitis) out of the way, Chris Rea is back making music like nothing has ...
Chris Rea: The Very Best of (East West)
Review by Mat Snow, Q, November 1994
Somewhere left of Eric Clapton and Phil Collins resides Chris Rea, a bluesman for whom the burden of life consists less of stones in his ...
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, November 1989
NEW LIGHT Through Old Windows, last year's re-recorded look through his back pages, finally established Chris Rea as a frontrunner in his own country. ...
Book Excerpt by John Pidgeon, Classic Albums (BBC Books), 1991
IF ANYONE EVER gets round to compiling a list of the sources of inspiration behind big-selling records, major motorway tailbacks are unlikely to figure high ...
Interview by 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 ...
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, January 1994
Adopt Murray Walker voice: "Aaahnd aaas Nigel Mansell attempts radical chassis reshaping at Starkey's Bridge, whooo's this bringing up the rear?" It's Chris Rea, actually, ...
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