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Chris Rea: Dancing with Strangers

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Label: Magnet Records
Released: 1987
Time:
 58:54
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Chris Rea
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.chrisrea.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Joys of Christmas (Ch.Rea) - 5:15
[2] I Can't Dance to That (Ch.Rea) - 4:19
[3] Windy Town (Ch.Rea) - 4:25
[4] Gonna Buy a Hat (Ch.Rea) - 4:25
[5] Curse of the Traveller (Ch.Rea) - 6:26
[6] Let's Dance (Ch.Rea) - 4:07
[7] Que Sera (Ch.Rea) - 5:23
[8] Josie's Tune (Ch.Rea) - 2:19
[9] Loving You Again (Ch.Rea) - 5:40
[10] That Girl of Mine (Ch.Rea) - 3:41
[11] September Blue (Ch.Rea) - 3:09
[12] I Don't Care Any More (Ch.Rea) - 2:10
[13] Donahue's Broken Wheel (Ch.Rea) - 3:02
[14] Danielle's Breakfast (Ch.Rea) - 4:33

Tracks [12,13,14] are bonus tracks not available on the initial LP release.

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Chris Rea - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Slide Guitar, Synthesizer, Accordion, Mixing, Producer

Robert Ahwai - Guitar
Max Middleton - Keyboards
Dave Mattacks - Drums
Adrian Rea - Drums
Jerry Donahue - Acoustic Guitar on [3], Guitars on [3,4,5,7,10]
Davy Spillane - Whistle & Uilleann Pipes on [3,5,8,10]
Eoghan O'Neill - Bass on [1-7,9,10]
Kevin Leach - Piano on [2,3,5,9,10], Organ on [2,4,5,7]
Martin Ditcham - Percussion & Drums on [1-7,9,10]

Stuart Ealses - Engineer
Jean Jacques Lemoine - Engineer
Justin Shirley-Smith - Engineer
Stuart Eales - Engineer
Jon Kelly - Mixing
Willie Grimston - Coordination
Mark Entwistle - Cover Illustration
Shoot That Tiger! - Sleeve Design

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Written & recorded in Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland; Miraval Studios, Le Val, Provence, France; Hartman Digital, Nuremberg, Germany.


 
Dancing with Strangers is the ninth studio album by Chris Rea, released in 1987. It became Rea's first major success in UK, peaking at #2, behind Michael Jackson's Bad, and spent 46 weeks in the charts, achieving Platinum accreditation. It reached the Top 10 in six other countries, including New Zealand where it became a number one album. "Let's Dance" was released as the first single and, like the album, became a major hit for Rea in UK, peaking at #12. In tone with the success of the album, "Let's Dance" became a major hit in New Zealand as well, peaking at #2. The other singles released from this album were "Loving You Again" (UK #47), "Joys of Christmas" (UK #67) and "Que Sera" (UK #73).

Wikipedia.org



Chris Rea's Rezept scheint immer wieder aufzugehen. Simpel strukturierte Songs macht der Mann zu Ohrwürmern. Kurze, elegische Einleitung, weite Keyboardflächen, eine einsame Mundharmonika (wahlweise auch eine verlorene Tin Whistle), dann geht's auch schon los. "Que Sera", mit seinem Bo Diddley-Rhythmus schraubt sich höher und höher, bis man es nicht mehr aus dem Ohr kriegt. So wird das gemacht. Auf Dancing With Strangers aus dem Jahr 1987 wimmelt es von Hits dieser Art. "Let's Dance", mit seinem fetten Bläsersatz, das etwas sülzige "Joys of Christmas" und natürlich die Rea-typische Riesennummer "Loving You Again". Seine musikalische Bandbreite ist etwa so groß wie sein Stimmumfang, aber was er daraus macht, ist beachtlich. Da ist es egal, daß er immer mal wieder bei den Dire Straits vorbeischaut und sich ein paar Gitarrenphrasen abholt. Diese Platte ist einfach ein absolutes Muß für alle Chris Rea-Anhänger. Der einzige Makel sind die beiden trostlosen Instrumentalnummern am Ende der CD. Hier hätte sich ein toller Song zum Ausklang wesentlich besser gemacht.

Ravi Unger - Amazon.de
 

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