True Facts About Chris Rea

[Ming the Merciless]

Chris Rea was a slow musical developer at school and played the triangle in the school band.

 

[Drago]

Chris Rea lost so much weight on the Atkins diet he was regularly mistaken for Rowan Atkinson.

 

[Seevio]

Much like his beloved pedigree racing wombats, Chris Rea has cubic poo.

 

[Drago]

Chris Rea invented a 3D puzzle game based upon his famous goatee beard.

The Pubic Cube is available at all good toy shops for £19.99.

 

[stephec]

Chris Rea was Buckaroo world champion in 1984.

 

[DRM]

Chris Rea's appearance on TV's Who Do You Think You Are, proved so intriguing and detailed having traced a direct lineage of musicians, entertainers & singers right the way back to the Court of King Egbert (827-839) right through to modern times, inspired him to write the hit comedy series Blackadder, which was based on historical facts that genuinely involved his ancestors

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Chris Rea has a static caravan in Skegness that he stays in each summer. He loves building sand castles and eating fish and chips by the sea.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Chris Rea has a static caravan in Skegness that he stays in each summer. He loves building sand castles and eating fish and chips by the sea.

True fact, Bill Oddie used to have a caravan at Kilnsea (Spurn Point) as he is a massive twitcher.

 

[DRM]

In 1996 Chris Rea's outdoor concert on Marsden Beach, near South Shields resulted in the worlds loudest concert, he came off stage to visit the backstage bucket, as he was bursting to go, the audience were screaming for an encore, after washing his hands, he told the sound engineer to crank those bloody Marshall Amps to the absolute max, he came back on stage and went into his version of Cream's cover of Crossroads, the Solo was so loud it caused the top of Marsden Rocks arch to collapse into the sea, residents of Flensberg & Kiel ( Germany) reported a huge noise in the distance to local authorities, fearing a Tsunami was coming in, He returned in 1997 to the Marsden Rock, Rocks Festival and surpassed his db record by inviting special guests AC/DC, Motorhead, Girls School & Metallica to cover Thunderstruck with him, all four bands put in their own PA systems, the resulting decibels caused one of Marsden Rocks remaining stacks to collapse into the sea, South Tyneside Council banned the event after that, saying they'll be no town left if that b*gger keeps upping the volume every year.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

True fact, Bill Oddie used to have a caravan at Kilnsea (Spurn Point) as he is a massive twitcher.

Chris Rea would never spoil a thread with truth

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The Rea Brook in Shropshire was where a youthful Chris used to play pirates. At that time it was called Shithouse Artist With Only One Hit Brook, but as a homage to Chris's global domination it was re-named.

If one looks carefully, the exact spot that Chris had his pirate camp is marked on the map:

https://shrewsburytownfisheries.co.uk/fisheries/rea-brook/

 

[Drago]

In the 1980s it was believed that Chris Rea was a twitcher, but it turned out to be his poor at at robotic dancing.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

During a visit to Navarone Chris Rea was on the Beans and Sprouts diet. The shipping forecast was amended during that time to include a Force 10 from Navarone and inspired a subsequent novel by Alistair McLean.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Chris Rea for a period in the early 70s was a stunt double for John Wayne

 

[Wixsteman]

Chris Rea is the only known person to have cycled round every town centre in Britain