Chris Rea - Guitar Street

Описание: "King of the Beach" is the sixteenth studio album by Chris Rea, released in 2000.
A sequel of sorts to his earlier On the Beach, King of the Beach continues the laid-back mood of the earlier album but is a more mature and unified work.
It's one of his best albums and is a return to form after the film soundtrack La Passione and the more electronic sounds of The Road to Hell Part 2.
Written primarily during a vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands, it's replete with lots of beach and summer imagery in the titles ("King of the Beach," "All Summer Long," "Sandwriting," "Sail Away") as well as the lyrics, which were originally written as poems.

After leaving school Rea worked in casual labouring jobs, including working in his father's ice cream business.
It was at the comparatively late age of 21-22 that Rea bought his first guitar, a 1961 Hofner V3.
With regards to his guitar playing technique, he developed his own style by listening to Delta blues musicians like Sonny Boy Williamson II and Muddy Waters, and opera to light orchestral classics to develop his style.
Rea's early music career began with inspiration of Charlie Patton, Blind Willie Johnson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, as well by the success of then contemporary Ry Cooder and Joe Walsh.
He recalls that "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", and that "when I was young wanted most of all to be a writer of films and film music.
But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn't the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores".

“I was what you might call a late starter, I didn’t start playing ’til I was 21. Those players around me had already been and gone. I found catching up pretty hard – I never really did catch up… four-finger scales drove me manic! I just went sideways into slide guitar, which of course is what I love.” -Chris Rea-

Personnel:

Chris Rea - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, Hammond organ, drum programming, producer
Max Middleton - Rhodes
Pete Wingfield - Hammond organ
Martin Ditcham - drums, percussion
Julie Isaac - backing vocals
Debbie Longworth - backing vocals
Neil Amor - engineer
Arun Chakraverty - mastering
Tommy Willis - coordination
John Knowles - management
Peacock - design, illustrations
John Miller - cover painting

Lyrics:

There's a crazy sense of duty
As he licks between his fingers
Wipes the ketchup from his face and hands
There's a strong determination
That his teachers never witnessed
Never close enough to understand

Through the avenues of fashion
To the palaces of dreams
All the way, all the way down guitar street

Down guitar street, down guitar street
Down guitar street there he go
Down guitar street

He's like a bull just bred for fighting
And he don't deliver nothing
Outside the only thing that he knows

Mama, papa don't know what to say
They know he's gonna leave 'em anyway
Take a look 'cos there he goes

Down guitar street, down guitar street
Down guitar street
Take a good look, there he goes
Down guitar street

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Down guitar, yeah, yeah, yeah
Down guitar, down guitar street
Take a good look 'cos there he goes

Down guitar street
Down guitar street, down guitar street
Take a good look 'cos there he goes

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Down guitar street, down guitar street
Yeah, yeah, down guitar street

There he goes, down guitar street, guitar street
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Take a good look 'cos there he goes
Down guitar street, all the way...

This video has been published with absolute respect and admiration to Chris Rea's music !

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