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Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.
— Chris Rea
Tags: doing, hair, guitar, mirror

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I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!
— Chris Rea
Tags: down, dad, business, me
Touring is easy. My wife will be with me a lot of the time. We get spoilt rotten, and all I have to do is go on stage in wonderful places and play music.
— Chris Rea
Tags: wife, time, me, music
Music is a saviour for me.
— Chris Rea
Tags: me, music
I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals.
— Chris Rea
Tags: thanks, who, real, friends
I'm lucky to be alive. I'm one of only 40 people who have survived the surgery I had, and when you've been that close to dying, you re-evaluate what's really important to you - and it's nothing to do with fame and money.
— Chris Rea
Tags: nothing, people, money, you
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