Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea (4 March, 1951) is a successful British singer-songwriter, from Middlesbrough. He is best known for his 1989 album The Road to Hell. His father owned an ice-cream parlour just outside Middlesbrough, in Guisborough, but previously had parlours throughout the area. Locally, "going to Rea's" (pronounced "Ree-a's") meant going out for ice-cream.

Film

As can be seen at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713730/ Rea has also dabbled seriously in film, playing lead in the 1999 comedy "Parting shots" against such notables as John Cleese, Bob Hoskins and Joanna Lumley. Rea plays a man who's told cancer gives him six weeks to live, and decides to kill off the people who've done him wrong in life.

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