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Chris Rea

Alternative rock

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Chris Rea is a Alternative rock and Blues act. Their catalogue also touches Rock. Their sound grew out of Snowy White, The Pasadenas, Jacques Loussier, Bill Wyman and Blind Willie Johnson. Those roots explain a lot about how Chris Rea arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, Tony Joe White, Snowy White and Eric Clapton, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Queen, David Coverdale, The Bangles, York and Peter Gabriel, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 43 connections around Chris Rea, reaching back through Snowy White and forward to Queen. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.