Chris Rea

Musician

1951-03-04

Books by Chris Rea

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Touring is easy. My wife will be with me a lot of the time. We get spoilt rotten, and all I have to do is go on stage in wonderful places and play music.
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I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!
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My daughter is 15. None of her friends know who the hell Chris Rea is, but they know that song - as soon as it comes on, they start singing it. I've played with everyone from Status Quo to Talk Talk, but nothing impresses them as much as the fact that I play on 'Driving Home for Christmas.'
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I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals.
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Eric Clapton's scales - when he comes off a high note and it's time for a refrain or a little bit of a rest, he peals off scales going downwards that are so good it's unbelievable.
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It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.
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My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Middlesbrough. He was central distributor for most of the region.
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