Sad news before Xmas...
Chris Rea is no longer Driving Home for Christmas...
The English blues player and singer was 74.
Rea recorded 25 studio albums, two of which topped the UK Albums Chart, The Road to Hell in 1989 and its follow-up, Auberge, in 1991.
He did the music for La Passione in 1996, film he wrote and produced about racing cars and Ferrari, Rea being a racing driver himself.
He also had the lead in the pythonesque black comedy Parting Shots (1998, directed by Michael Winner), next to Ben Kingsley, Oliver Reed and John Cleese. The film can been on youtube, here.
He had an Italian father and Irish mother - his family were in the ice cream business.
Chris Rea had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at age 33, a lot of other health issues folllowing it, but he lived and played, album after album, gig after gig, until a stroke in 2016...
He played Bucharest's Sala Palatului, on February 6th 2010 -my memories and review here.
His last album was a compilation, The Christmas Album, released on October 17, 2025....
Obit on BBC here
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