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Chris Rea: Shamrock Diaries

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Label: Magnet Records
Released: 1985
Time:
 48:28
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Chris Rea, David Richards
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.chrisrea.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Steel River (Ch.Rea) - 6:15
[2] Stainsby Girls (Ch.Rea) - 3:51
[3] Chisel Hill (Ch.Rea) - 4:03
[4] Josephine (Ch.Rea) - 4:26
[5] One Golden Rule (Ch.Rea) - 4:29
[6] All Summer Long (Ch.Rea) - 4:09
[7] Stone (Ch.Rea) - 4:23
[8] Shamrock Diaries (Ch.Rea) - 4:55
[9] Love Turns To Lies (Ch.Rea) - 4:11
[10] Hired Gun (Ch.Rea) - 8:03

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Chris Rea - Vocals, Guitar, Organ, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Slide Guitar, Producer

Robert Ahwai - Guitar
Simon Nicol - Guitar
Eoghan O'Neill - Bass
Kevin Leach - Keyboards
Max Middleton - Keyboards
Annie Whitehead - Trombone
Dave Mattacks - Drums
Adrian Rea - Drums
Martin Ditcham - Percussion

David Richards - Producer, Engineer
Barry Hammond - Engineer
Bill Smith - Cover
Derek Ridgers - Photography

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1985 LP Magnet MAGL 5062
1991 CD EastWest 2292-42374-2

Recorded at Bray and Chipping Norton Studios, December 1984 Mixed at Mountain Studios, Montreux
Switzerland, January 1985 .



After seven albums, Chris Rea was finally beginning to get the hang of what makes a commercial success. He had not changed his style throughout the 1980s, but now it was 1985 and the synth pop sounds and new romantics were both long gone - and in their place were stadium-filling anthemic rock or power ballads. Shamrock Diaries was a mix of soft ballads like "Chisel Hill" and "One Golden Rule" along with saxophone-led uptempo numbers such as the title track and the feel-good song of the summer, "All Summer Long," which would have made an ideal single had Magnet decided to release it. Shamrock Diaries was written very much with family in mind, particularly considering the two singles released: "Stainsby Girls" was a tribute to his wife, Joan, who had attended Stainsby Secondary Modern School; and "Josephine" was written for his eldest daughter. The opening track, "Steel River," was rather hard to define, being a soft piano-led ballad until the first chorus kicked in and the song revealed gospel roots, but by the time the second chorus came along it had become a jazz jam. This was followed by "Stainsby Girls," easily the most like Bruce Springsteen that Rea had ever sounded - and it became his first Top 30 single since "Fool If You Think It's Over" from the late '70s. However, Chris Rea saved the best track until the end: the slow-building "Hired Gun," over eight minutes of brooding menace.

Sharon Mawer - All Music Guide



Shamrock Diaries is the seventh studio album by Chris Rea, released in 1985. This album represents the beginning of a creative and commercial zenith for Rea. Shamrock Diaries was a huge seller in Europe, reaching the Top 20 in several countries including Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The album was also successful in Australia, where it reached number one.

The track "Stainsby Girls" was written as a tribute for his wife Joan, a former student of the Stainsby Secondary Modern School. One of the album's most popular tracks, "Josephine," was written by Rea for his daughter of the same name. Rea would later pay the same compliment to his youngest daughter, Julia, on the album Espresso Logic (1993).

"Josephine" is a track that Rea has re-recorded many times. The version released on the original LP was replaced in later CD editions by the "disco" version, which is also the basis for the later "Josephine (La version Francais)". The original LP version was later made available on the French release "The Best of Chris Rea" in 1998. There is also the version recorded in 1988 for "New Light Through Old Windows", also available on the 1994 "The Best of Chris Rea". Additionally, there is the slower version released on the U.S. edition of "New Light Through Old Windows" in 1988, also available on the 2001 "Very Best of Chris Rea" which is itself similar, though not identical to the version used in the original video from 1985. Finally in 2008 another re-recording was released on the Germany-only "Fool (If You Think It's Over) - The Definitive Greatest Hits". "Josephine" was also sampled in 2000 by Superfunk for their song "Lucky Star", with Ron Carroll, although the samples comes from another (shorter) version of the song.

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