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Rock n' roll was my art school. For many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing, it was the only thing: the only avenue of creativity available for them.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Art School
Available
Backgrounds
Chosen
School
Working Class
Rock
The Only Thing
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Five times a week, I do two hours running and gym work. That's to help with things like blood circulation. Also, it is good to be in shape in case I need to go into hospital again.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Running
Blood
Circulation
Five
Gym
Hours
Case
Hospital
Shape
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I do have this big weakness: I over-cooperate with people. People say it's because I'm Irish-Italian from Middlesbrough, and me dad was always like that, y'know - 'Get the job done.'
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Weakness
Dad Me People
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The voice has been my joker card that sometimes has played like an ace and sometimes a joker. When you sing the way I sing, it's impossible to get people to talk about anything else.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Impossible
Voice
Talk
Ace
Anything Else
Played
Card
Voice People Sometimes
Joker
Sing
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I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Generations
Our Generation
Sat
Article
Corner
Previous
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If the heads of all the music companies had known about music and about Chris Rea fans, they wouldn't have worried about 'Stony Road.' My regular fans have always known that side of me.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Fans
Worried
Music Always Me
Music Me Fans
Chris
Companies
Heads
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I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to do free-form slide solo. It's the best thing I've ever done - because I wasn't thinking about it.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Jazz
Solo
Played
Festival
Gig
Slide
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If I'm ever stuck on the M25 - the 'Road to Hell' - I'll wind the window down and start singing, 'I'm driving home for Christmas' at people in cars alongside. They love it. It's like giving them a present.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Car
Giving
Singing
Stuck
Wind
Alongside
Present
Start
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I feel I've had three careers in one, really. There was the 'Benny Santini' stuff; that came with a general sense of, 'Who the hell is he?' And then there was 'The Road To Hell' stuff, and now there's the blues stuff.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Careers
Benny
Blues
General Sense
Hell Is
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'Fool If You Think It's Over' is still the only song I've ever not played guitar on, but it just so happened to be my first single, and it just so happened to be a massive hit. It was in the U.S. Top 10 for seven weeks.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Fool
Massive
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I'm lucky to be alive. I'm one of only 40 people who have survived the surgery I had, and when you've been that close to dying, you re-evaluate what's really important to you - and it's nothing to do with fame and money.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Dying
Surgery
Survived
Money Important People
Re-Evaluate
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I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Cold
Freezing
Grammar
Grammar School
Me Day Remember
Everybody Else
Me Remember Day
Playground
Wondering
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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!
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Company
Gary
Given
Glitter
Names
Singers
Stardust
Business Dad Me
Benny
Foot
Record
Just Because
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I bought a Hofner guitar and amplifier for 32 guineas, then spent ages trying to make a bottleneck. At that point, I was meant to be developing my father's ice-cream cafe into a global concern, but I spent all my time in the stockroom playing slide guitar.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Concern
Developing
Meant To Be
My Time
Ages
All My Time
Amplifier
Bought
Cafe
Meant
Global
Point
Slide
Spent
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The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. I was disappointed to see the people I'd always thought of as pop stars. They would charge around the stage rather than enjoy the music.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Awards
Disappointed
Grammy
Newman
Pop Stars
Randy
Time Music Always
Bump
Charge
Mattered
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My ambition, a long time ago, was to be a film music writer. A compromise then was to be the guy who wrote songs for a band and played slide guitar. Then the singer didn't turn up for an audition, and I was the only one who knew the words. That was it - bingo! Life took a different course.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Bingo
Compromise
Film Music
Long Time Ago
Life Time Music
Audition
Slide
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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.'
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Christmas
Daughter
Driving
Singing
Song
Status Quo
Talk
Played
Chris
None
Quo
Status
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When 'The Road To Hell' happened, I didn't know what I was doing. Your diary fills up, and you have no objectivity. At home, you're trying your best to fit in. Sometimes I'd race from Heathrow to find myself sitting in a village hall watching my kids. It felt really weird. I didn't enjoy it.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Objectivity
Sitting
Village
Weird
Diary
Fills
Hall
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it's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realize that this isn't the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you've done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Fall
Rocks
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I didn't start until I was 21, and most people I know were 13 when they had their first guitar - I missed that time where you sit in your bedroom all day for years and accidentally you're doing classical training, although you're not thinking of it that way. It's not as easy, as you get older, to do all that kind of practice.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Bedroom
Accidentally
Time Start Thinking
All Day
Classical
Missed
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Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.
Chris Rea / Singer-Songwriter
Bedroom
Moaning
Charley
Double
Hollering
Mirror
Old Guy
Patton
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