Chris Rea - King of the Beach (Album, 2000)
16 videos • 136,042 views • by ATHENAMATS "King of the Beach" is the sixteenth studio album by Chris Rea, released in 2000. A sequel of sorts to his earlier On the Beach, King of the Beach continues the laid-back mood of the earlier album but is a more mature and unified work. It's one of his best albums and is a return to form after the film soundtrack La Passione and the more electronic sounds of The Road to Hell Part 2. Written primarily during a vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands, it's replete with lots of beach and summer imagery in the titles ("King of the Beach," "All Summer Long," "Sandwriting," "Sail Away") as well as the lyrics, which were originally written as poems. Personnel: Chris Rea - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, Hammond organ, drum programming, producer Max Middleton - Rhodes Pete Wingfield - Hammond organ Martin Ditcham - drums, percussion Julie Isaac - backing vocals Debbie Longworth - backing vocals Neil Amor - engineer Arun Chakraverty - mastering Tommy Willis - coordination John Knowles - management Peacock - design, illustrations John Miller - cover painting Tracklist: "King of the Beach" "All Summer Long" "Sail Away" "Still Beautiful" "The Bones of Angels" "Guitar Street" "Who Do You Love" "The Memory of a Good Friend" "Sandwriting" "Tamatave" "God Gave Me an Angel" "Waiting for a Blue Sky" "Mississippi" This track is a bonus track on the UK edition of the album.