Dancing with Strangers
| Dancing With Strangers | ||||
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| Studio album by Chris Rea | ||||
| Released | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Album-oriented rock | |||
| Length | 58:54 | |||
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Motown Magnet | |||
| Producer | Chris Rea | |||
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Dancing with Strangers is the ninth studio album by Chris Rea, released in 1987. It became Rea's first major success in UK, peaking at #2, behind Michael Jackson's Bad, and spent 46 weeks in the charts, achieving Platinum accreditation.[1] It reached the Top 10 in six other countries, including New Zealand where it became a number one album.[2]
"Let's Dance" was released as the first single and, like the album, became a major hit for Rea in UK, peaking at #12. In tone with the success of the album, "Let's Dance" became a major hit in New Zealand as well, peaking at #2.[3] The other singles released from this album were "Loving You Again" (UK #47), "Joys of Christmas" (UK #67) and "Que Sera" (UK #73).
Track listing
All songs by Chris Rea.
- "Joys of Christmas" - 5:15
- "I Can't Dance to That" - 4:19
- "Windy Town" - 4:25
- "Gonna Buy a Hat" - 4:25
- "Curse of the Traveller" - 6:26
- "Let's Dance" - 4:07
- "Que Sera" - 5:23
- "Josie's Tune" - 2:19
- "Loving You Again" - 5:40
- "That Girl of Mine" - 3:41
- "September Blue" - 3:09
- "I Don't Care Any More" - 2:10
- "Donahue's Broken Wheel" - 3:02
- "Danielle's Breakfast" - 4:33
Tracks 12, 13, 14 are bonus tracks not available on the initial LP release.
Personnel
- Chris Rea - vocals, guitar, keyboards, slide guitar, synthesizer, accordion, mixing, producer
- Robert Ahwai - guitar
- Jerry Donahue - guitar
- Davy Spillane - guitar, uilleann pipes
- Eoghan O'Neill - bass
- Kevin Leach - piano, keyboards
- Max Middleton - keyboards
- Martin Ditcham - percussion, drums
- Dave Mattacks - drums
- Adrian Rea – drums
- Stuart Ealses - engineer
- Jean Jacques Lemoine - engineer
- Justin Shirley-Smith - engineer
- Jon Kelly - mixing
- Willie Grimston - coordination
- Mark Entwistle - cover illustration
References
- ↑ 1987-09-26 Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive, officialcharts.com, Retrieved July 9, 2013
- ↑ Chris Rea - Dancing With Strangers, swisscharts.com, Retrieved July 9, 2013
- ↑ Chris Rea - Let's Dance, swisscharts.com, Retrieved July 9, 2013
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