Chris Rea
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Chris Rea: Up from Cleveland... England
Profile and Interview by Mark Williams, Rolling Stone, 26 July 1979
Singer/songwriter with an edge ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Chris Rea: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 1 February 1998
Dire Rea ...
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 ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 4 March 1951, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England ...
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. ...
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 ...
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