True Facts About Chris Rea

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Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
In the late 80s, when he was undoubtedly the most famous and most successful rock star in the world, Chris Rea took a trip back to the 1930s where he met Igor Sikorsky who was working on a new type of aeroplane called a helicopter. Chris knew that, as helicopters didn't exist, Sikorsky's efforts were doomed to failure. So he mocked him mercilessly and even sang a ditty to him: "Fool if you think it'll hover".

When he returned to his own time Chris was dismayed to find that helicopters did exist. His mocking had resolved Sikorsky to work harder to succeed. What was worse was the fact that, due to the chaotic nature of space-time, he was no longer the most famous and successful rock star in the world. He was just a bloke who'd made a few moderately well known but forgettable records and hardly anyone knew who he was.

Chris made several repeat visits to the 1930s desperately attempting to undo his handiwork but each time he returned there were more helicopters and he was a bit more obscure, so eventually he gave up and resigned himself to hearing people say "I think I've heard that song before but I've got no idea who did it"
 

DRM

Guru
Location
West Yorks
More ancient biblical texts have been discovered regarding the nativity, it seems that as well as impersonating a wise man on a Camel, Chris Rea suggested to Joseph, and the 2 wise men that they went round to the inn to wet the baby’s head, not only did they wet the baby’s head, they also wet it’s arms, legs & torso, after having a skin full, the four drunks decided to go outside, where they thought it would be fun to do timed laps of the inn, on various Camels, donkeys and asses, tied up outside, along with drunken singing, of rugby songs, that Chris taught them, this led to the Roman Guards arresting them, for being drunk & disorderly, being in charge of various animals whilst drunk, riding various animals without a license or insurance, taking animals without the owners consent, this led to Mary & Joseph having an almighty row, after they were let out the following day, Chris decided not to hang about, left the camel where it was, and absconded back to modern day Middlesbrough, he did go back in time to 1986 and told his mate Shane MacGowan about what had happened, Shane wrote a song about it called Fairytale of Bethlehem, but was made to move the narrative to New York by his record company
 

grldtnr

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Chris Rea is a big fan of Geoff Capes, but he misunderstood Geaff's passion for breeding g Budgies.....one misjudged sojourn in the porta -potty saw him materialize in Geoff's aviary,
....now Geoff is normally a middle mannered man , but this incidence made him livid, he was chuckingiro. Balls all over the shop, he was doing 'Stongest man ':at the time...
He was so enraged , he used the anger to win 2 'Strongman contests.
Not a lot of people know that .
 

Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
Chris Rea is a big fan of Geoff Capes, but he misunderstood Geaff's passion for breeding g Budgies.....one misjudged sojourn in the porta -potty saw him materialize in Geoff's aviary,
....now Geoff is normally a middle mannered man , but this incidence made him livid, he was chuckingiro. Balls all over the shop, he was doing 'Stongest man ':at the time...
He was so enraged , he used the anger to win 2 'Strongman contests.
Not a lot of people know that .

This explains a lot...

During a broadcast of Look North in 1996 Chris Rea caused outrage by claiming "My Nan knows more about budgie keeping than Geoff Capes and she's been dead for five years"
 

lazybloke

Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
Location
Leafy Surrey
Now that Microsoft are allowing Windows 11 to install on older computers, Chris Rea can finally upgrade the navigation computer in his Turdis. If only he replaced that dodgy Pentium and its floating-point maths bug, the Auberge field calculations might prove less volatile...
 

Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
In the 1980s Chris Rea had a job working for Jim Henson as a musician on the Muppet Show. However Henson told him that he found him "too bluesy" for the Muppets and told him to adjust his style or his job would be in danger.

In a desperate attempt to curry favour with his boss, Rea came up with the idea of a new segment for the show called "Guess the Muppet" in which one of the Muppets was hidden in a box. He even proposed a catchy theme tune "Fool if you think it's Grover". He excitedly pitched this idea hoping it would secure his future.

Henson fired him on the spot.
 
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Drago

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Chris Rea has at last been granted planning permission to build a launch pad on greenbelt land for the TURDIS timecraft and Time Transit first stage booster.

This is despite Rea himself objecting to a new orphanage being build on a brownfield site in his constituency.
 
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Drago

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The other day Chris Rea was piloting the TURDIS after one too many Christmas sherries and collided with a fairground ride in Birmingham. Fortunately the cloking device was on at the time and he escaped suspicion.
 
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