![]() I’ve played with everyone from Status Quo to Talk Talk, but nothing impresses them as much as the fact that I play on Driving Home for Christmas. None of her friends know who the hell Chris Rea is but they know that song – as soon as it comes on, they start singing it. You put on the radio or sit in the coffee bar, and it’s on. I did lots with Chris, so at the time it was just another session, but it’s nice to be part of a song that’s turned out to be one of the most played Christmas singles of all time. I thought it was a hooky little number, a pretty little song. Chris Rea: Driving Home For Christmas Publisher, Hal Leonard Instrumentation, Guitar Chords and Lyrics Product Format, Sheet-Digital Description Product. I just overdubbed my parts: a bit of percussion, put some jingle bells in there, tucked away discreetly. ![]() The song was already recorded and ready to go. The next thing I knew, I was in this little place laying down the drumbeat to this Christmassy track, even though it wasn’t Christmas. As would often happen, I turned up for a coffee and a chinwag prior to doing something for him. Also see Camelot, duration, release date, label, popularity, energy, danceability. He had a modest home studio – in what had been the garage, as I remember. Key & BPM for Driving Home for Christmas - 2019 Remaster by Chris Rea. We recorded Driving Home for Christmas at Chris’s house near Maidenhead. At first, it was another radio hit – but then it started re-entering the Top 40 every year. Max played the distinctive jazzy intro, we did a classic 1950s Christmas carol-type arrangement, and loved it. It was all over for me: I was just about out of. Then a DJ flipped it over and started playing it, so Max suggested we re-record it and add some strings. Chris Rea, singer-songwriter The story of Driving Home for Christmas is like a classic festive story. I’d never intended to write a Christmas hit – I was a serious musician! So initially, the song came out on a B-side. You should get it down.” I went back to my tin, and the words to Driving Home for Christmas fitted perfectly. ![]() ![]() Someone said: “That’s a great tune, that. We started joking around, playing this Count Basie-type thing. Some years later, my career had turned around and Max Middleton and I were testing two new pianos. The song went in my old tin full of unfinished stuff. We went from being down to our last £220 to being able to buy a house. My song Fool (If You Think It’s Over) had been a hit in the US, so there was a cheque for £15,000. It was so cold inside the house that the snow tumbled on to the doormat and didn’t melt. Rea singing the 1988 hit, which was 10 years in the making. ![]()
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