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Chris Rea

Started by john aston , Jan 15 2012 17:38

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#1 john aston

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 17:38

Does anybody have any contact details for Lotus Six and Seven pilot Mr Rea please?

#2 Barry Boor

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 18:56

Can't help on details but surely Chris has website.

Ace of Hearts is one of my all time favourite songs.

#3 ensign14

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 18:59

I think he lives in an auberge on the road to Hell.

#4 Giraffe

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 19:50

Chris lives in Cookham.

#5 eldougo

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 05:49

In Berkshire me old cock

#6 hipperson

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 15:02

John

I have his address....email me if you still need it

michael@michaelhipperson.co.uk

Edited by hipperson, 16 January 2012 - 15:04.

#7 john aston

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 17:37

Thank you- I have a way in already from another TNFer but appreciate your help.

#8 smarjoram

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 17:51

He said he'd be at home for Christmas - so you may be in luck.

... sorry

#9 philhitchings

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 17:55

He's driving but may be delayed by traffic.

#10 David Birchall

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 18:39

Naa, He's on the beach, looking for the summer... :rolleyes:

#11 kayemod

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 18:43

Naa, He's on the beach, looking for the summer...

Let's hope he doesn't encounter banana skins on the way.

#12 Amphicar

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 19:17

He may be too busy with those Stainsby girls to bother with a TNFer.

#13 David Beard

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 20:04

Naa, He's on the beach, looking for the summer...

But he could be at Daytona...

#14 Nev

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 20:31

But he could be at Daytona...

I used to live a few houses away from him in Middlesbrough a good 30-35 years ago (a million miles+ from Daytona). His family ran a small ice-cream shop just outside our local park. Its just as well he went into music as the shop went bust not long after I left Middlesbrough. My only claim to fame is that I once stole his girlfriend

For those overseas posters who don't know Middlesbrough - it is a glorious paradise in the mystical land of Teesside where men of steel used to build ships of wood. The local college turned out many illustrious scholars (they turned me out after the second day). Those who say that the best thing to come out of Middlesbrough is the A19 are all misinformed ...

#15 h4887

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 20:44

His family ran a small ice-cream shop just outside our local park. Its just as well he went into music as the shop went bust not long after I left Middlesbrough.

Just how much ice cream had you been eating? :wave:

#16 Barry Boor

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 22:13

Not that Chris Rea would be interested but on February 18th I'm going to gain a son-in-law from Middlesbrough.

#17 David Birchall

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Posted 16 January 2012 - 22:46

Not that Chris Rea would be interested but on February 18th I'm going to gain a son-in-law from Middlesbrough.

You'd be a fool if you think that's over :well:

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 07:11

Those who say that the best thing to come out of Middlesbrough is the A19 are all misinformed ...

Slightly OT I know, but actually the best thing that came out of Middlesbrough was the incomparable Freddie Dixon, motorcycle and car racer extraordinaire and hard drinker!

Marticelli

#19 DogEarred

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 07:16

I'm fed up with all this purile nonsense!

I'm off to met a young lady in Reading...

#20 elansprint72

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 08:58

Where do we go, where do we go from here?

Speaking of Rea ice-cream; there is another branch of the Rea family in Manchester and they also have a long tradition in ice-cream manufacture.

Ancoats- Little Italy.

Not many people know that...

#21 Giraffe

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 08:59

Chris is a great guy & I spent quite some time discussing our common love, the island of Formentera where he wrote "On the beach" with him when we last spoke. I have a feeling he may have sold the Lotus 6 now, so I'm not sure what he now has apart from his Ferrari 308 GTB4. He had quite a bit of fun in David Piper's Ferraris some years back, comprehensively crashing one at Spa IIRC, the repairs costing him a small fortune! I don't think he really likes the relative formality of historic motor sport, preferring the more laid back atmosphere of the Ferrari Owners Club. I was amused to watch him working under his Ferrari as fans came up and asked where he was. From beneath the car he would direct them to the other end of the paddock.

Edited by Giraffe, 17 January 2012 - 09:00.

#22 Nev

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 11:39

Not that Chris Rea would be interested but on February 18th I'm going to gain a son-in-law from Middlesbrough.

Strange coincidence - my Father-in-Law said the same thing.

#23 Nev

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 11:42

Chris is a great guy & I spent quite some time discussing our common love, the island of Formentera where he wrote "On the beach" with him when we last spoke. I have a feeling he may have sold the Lotus 6 now, so I'm not sure what he now has apart from his Ferrari 308 GTB4. He had quite a bit of fun in David Piper's Ferraris some years back, comprehensively crashing one at Spa IIRC, the repairs costing him a small fortune! I don't think he really likes the relative formality of historic motor sport, preferring the more laid back atmosphere of the Ferrari Owners Club. I was amused to watch him working under his Ferrari as fans came up and asked where he was. From beneath the car he would direct them to the other end of the paddock.

I also appreciate his down-to-earth naming of songs - "Road to Hell" (the M25), "Driving Home for Christmas" (his drive up the M1 from London to Middlesbrough), "Stainsby Girls" (Stainsby is a school in Middlesbrough close to where I used to live - the girls there were very "obliging"), "Steel River" (the Tees).

#24 David Beard

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 13:02

I'm fed up with all this purile nonsense!

I'm off to met a young lady in Reading...

Wrong Chris...
(Assuming you are hinting at Lady in Red)

Edited by David Beard, 17 January 2012 - 13:11.

#25 kayemod

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 13:30

Stainsby is a school in Middlesbrough close to where I used to live - the girls there were very "obliging").

I have heard it said that they were the inspiration for Viz editor Chris Donald's Fat Slags characters.

#26 DogEarred

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 13:55

Wrong Chris...
(Assuming you are hinting at Lady in Red)

Well done! You spotted my errr, delibrate mistake. For 2 points - which Chris did I mean?

#27 Giraffe

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 16:03

Well done! You spotted my errr, delibrate mistake. For 2 points - which Chris did I mean?

I'd guess either Amon or De Burgh. :smoking:

#28 Nev

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 18:15

I have heard it said that they were the inspiration for Viz editor Chris Donald's Fat Slags characters.

I'm not surprised :rotfl:

Didn't Bob Mortimer (of Vic and Bob fame) also come from Middlesbrough? If so, it does explain his warped sense of humour ...

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 18:16

...I heard on the grapevine (not Marvin`s BTW) that Chris Rea is in the studio recording with Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits. When the finished album is released it is not known whether it will be under the name of Christraites (ouch!!) or Dire Rea...(yeuch!) :lol:

#30 David Beard

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 18:29

...I heard on the grapevine (not Marvin`s BTW) that Chris Rea is in the studio recording with Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits. When the finished album is released it is not known whether it will be under the name of Christraites (ouch!!) or Dire Rea...(yeuch!)

The old ones are the best :rolleyes:

#31 kayemod

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Posted 17 January 2012 - 18:31

...I heard on the grapevine (not Marvin`s BTW) that Chris Rea is in the studio recording with Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits. When the finished album is released it is not known whether it will be under the name of Christraites (ouch!!) or Dire Rea...(yeuch!)

Think that was just a smear story, but maybe the studio is in Staines?