In the entertainment section of the Sun today they have listed their top ten CD box sets; guess what is number one? There is a short article (not very accurate and mainly a quote from the back of Blue Guitars) and a picture. The article ends: " This set has given a fine artist a new lease of l...

Thank you Bart for your kind words and for sharing similar, if not the same, feelings about Chris's music. I've been listening to it for some 25 years and never got tired of it. So, as I already said, I heard him first on the German radio in Munich. The Germans, I must say quite frankly, have a very...

Hello Chris; Many thanks for this info. Did you meet "The man" in Warsaw? Do you have a link to a website where this program is announced (So I can add it to the news section on the main page) ? And these 2 or 3 interviews / press release you talk about; do you have them from internet, or...

To answer your post Marcolino: Well, this is what Chris Rea exactly said in the interview, and I quote him: "I had to find a way to avoid playing three concerts a week (per week.) Of cause, I can still take my medications which are switching off (killing the pain) the pain, but that's not the o...

Thank you Marcolino, very much, for your post. To answer it, let me quote the Man, who yesterday (Tuesday, December 13) was in Warsaw. Chris was asked about his further plans as far as the band, concerts, his illness etc. He visited Warsaw to promote his "Blue Guitars." He met Polish press...

Hello, In my opinion, there isn't that much difference between the "old" versus "new" Chris Rea's style, except that now he plays more mature, sublime and better refined music, if you will. A sort of music delivered straight from his heart and soul. Being in the limelight for alm...

Hello everyone, I've been an ardent fan of Chris Rea since the early 80s. It was back in the "vinyl times" that I heard a song by Chris Rea on the radio, and I bought his first "Tennis" LP. Needless to say, the very next day, I went back to the shop to buy all of his available re...