The german release has been postponed again.
New release date will be (maybe) February 19...

I'm also wondering how the new edition is like. In Germany it will be released on Dec 11 and the import version is much too expensive. So, any reviews, pictures, opinions?

Thanks Andrej for the confirmation. When I came home I also had a look into the booklet of this album and saw that a lot of studios have been used besides Abbey Road: Air Studios, Chipping Norton, Bray, Odyssey. BTW: I'll never understand why this album is so underrated and it never got much attenti...

Hi all, @Andrey, you wrote: Chris tells that he first came to record at Abbery Road studios 25 years ago (1990) but in recent (Dec 2013) interview about Driving Home for Chritmas writing story, he reveals that it was 1986 that he was first recording at Abbey Road and Driving Home was one of the firs...

Hi all, this is where I've got my information from: http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/chris-rea-la-passione-deluxe/ Neither DVD contains the actual movie. The first has re-edited original and new short films to complement the music along with an interview with Chris between each piece. I hope t...

The release date for Germany will be 11. Dec. 2015 (at least that's what I found on the Amazon.de page after weeks of not listing the album at all). I think this will be the first album by C.R. I am not going to buy: - songs with Shirley Bassey left out :( - hardly any new tracks :( - not enough tra...

Hi all, just found this old thread (most interesting, btw!) and have a question: Andrey, you said: ...Fool If You Think It's Over which is said by Chris to be one of the first songs he ever did write ... He says these words as an introdduction to this song e.g. on the Sydney '87 recording and I alwa...

Hi again :D Don't get me wrong: "Blue Café" was far from being a flop and I don't have any figures about record sales of the individual albums in Germany - and "Blue Café" was of course much more successful than his first albums - but compared to "Auberge" or the likes ...

Hi Andrey, thank you - as always - for your detailed post and your insights. Of course I forgot "Joys Of Christmas" - it must indeed have been the strangest decision ever to release it as a single. "Sing A Song Of Love To Me" is one of my favourite tracks ever, so how could I for...

Hi all, just another post to keep this forum alive while we're waiting for some - any - news :) If you were to choose - which songs should have been released as a single (additionally)? My list is: - Because Of You (1978) - Runaway (1982) - Out Of The Darkness (1983) - Shine, Shine, Shine (1984) - T...

Hi everybody, when Chris played IAG in 2012 as an encore I was completely blown away. Since this song has only been played between 1986 until 1988 I had never had the opportunity to watch the man play this song live at a concert. It didn't come completely unexpected, though - as there were some hint...

Hi, I had some struggles,too until I found out that apparently it is not possible to directly upload pictures. You have to upload them to a picture host (a lot of free ones available, e.g. https://picload.org/ There you get a link for each picture and in your post here you can either post the HTML l...

Hi all, I'd love to see your rare items you've collected over the years - e.g. limited releases, autographs, tour books, badges, adverts and other memorabilia. I start with this very rare tour itinerary from the '93 tour. https://picload.org/thumbnail/iprwiog/tour01.jpg https://picload.org/thumbnail...

Hi all, thanks for getting this forum back to live and for this most interesting discussion :D I'm always quite puzzles by Chris' statements. If Robert Johnson and Charly Patton were his main influences back then I wonder why Chris did not use just a few licks in this style on his first records.Inst...

BTW here you can see a pic in high resolution of Pinky - 2006 state I suppose regarding the pickups, and with a new pickguard,as well. http://www.guitarhq.co.uk/gallery.html Interesting: it seems to me that Pinky was either produced in late '62 or early '63 - but not earlier because it already has a...