- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the overdub years. I wish there wasn't such a thing as a multitrack tape player, because what you heard would be the record.
- Aspirations
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a saviour for me.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Amplifier
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came down south and was put together with big producers, I always thought that they knew best. I never thought for a minute that they might have another agenda.
- Nov 07, 2020
You do some crazy things when you're young.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020