True Facts About Chris Rea

[ExBrit]

Chris "Two Sheds" Rea only owns one shed. He has written several top 10 songs about it. The single "Looking in the window at my hedge trimmer" reached number four.

 

[Seevio]

Chris Rea is the most popular artist in Kyrgyzstan by an order of magnitude and nobody knows why.

 

[raleighnut]

Chris Rea was asked to write a theme song for fellow 'geordies' series 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet, when asked by fellow guitarist Mark Knopfler if this was true he replied "Why Aye Man"

 

[Drago]

Asteroid REA56748 is named after Chris Rea.

 

[Beebo]

Chris Rea’s real name is Christopher Reactor.
But he only gets called that by his mum, if he’s been naughty.

 

[Moon bunny]

Chris Rea, in order to save his shoe soles from excessive wear, brachiates whenever possible, which is why he has taken over from Louis Armstrong as “King of the swingers”.

 

[Moon bunny]

Chris Rea has a part time job as theatre critic for Amateur Gardener .

 

[Moon bunny]

Chris Rea has a hobby of collecting old nuclear reactors.

 

[Moon bunny]

Chris Rea has an aversion to toilet paper.

 

[Drago]

Currently at number nine, on the first page of google, on a device not used for this site, and with its own data link.

Excellent! We're getting there. Wouldn't it be awesome if the guest man himself got wind of this and popped in?

Chris Rea actually invented Google in 1981. It was originally a mechanical device to search his house for his missing beard comb and was steam driven with parts from a Mamod, hence he called it a search engine.

 

[PeteXXX]

Chris Rea was the second test tube baby in the world. He was beaten by Dolly the Sheep by 5 minutes.

 

[Beebo]

Oh dear, so I hear, it’s clear, Chris Rea, came here, to peer at cycling gear and sneer.

 

[Drago]

Chris Rea holds the world record for smoking the longest cigar. In 1978 he smoked a specially prepared 23 metre long Havana for charity, and that is what bestowed upon him his distinctive husky voice.

 

[T4tomo]

As a tribute to his home town, Chris Rea only ever buys Red cars.

 

[Fergs]

Chris Rea, son of Thora Hird and Tony Curtis, turned to music after giving up his career as a footballer at Middlesbrough FC when his clumsy tackle ended the playing career of Brian Clough