True Facts About Chris Rea

[DRM]

Chris Rea was the technical manager for Paddy McGunness's Raleigh Chopper charity fund-raising effort, and only demanded 75% in fees.

Rea is now pushing McGuinness to try a grand tour in 2025. Apparently there's no mention of 'auberge doping' in the UCI rulebook, so it'll be totally legit.

Not only that but speculation is rife that Chris Rea has been towing Paddy McGuiness with his highly modded E-Brompton

 

[Dogtrousers]

Chris Rea can't stand the rain, against his window.

 

[Drago]

During WW2 Chris Rea used the TURDIS to evade rationing. He made a nice bit on the side selling surplus on the black market, although some of the more observant punters were puzzled by the "Dec 2025" Best By date on the corned beef.

 

[DRM]

30th April 1945, The Turdis appears in Central Berlin, Chris Rea sneaks out to have a look around, artillery and gun fire is getting closer, in the distance he can hear Russian voices, so he decides it’s best to get out of there, quickly, he is unaware that a man and woman have spotted the Turdis and gone inside, so it’s next stop Argentina to investigate just how well their economy is doing in 1950, and why it was starting to collapse, on arriving in Buenos Aries, he was shocked when a woman and a man with a strange small moustache barged past, said something in German, and vanished into the city, to this day Chris can’t be 100% sure, but he would swear that Adolf and Eva stowed away in the Turdis

 

[Drago]

The aerial footage of the police pursuit of of OJ Simpson was filmed by Chris Rea from the TURDIS.

 

[stephec]

Chris scours the Friday music thread every week, and he's very disappointed that he doesn't feature far more often.

So much so that he's decided to use his time travelling to go back in time and write songs with the sole intention of dominating the thread for ever more.

 

[Drago]

The first flight by the Montgolfier brothers was actually an April fools prank by Chris Rea, Richard Harris, and the TURDIS decked out to resemble a hot air balloon.