Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas (Vintage Memories) video free download

Chris Rea ‎- Driving Home For Christmas - The Christmas EP, CD, Mini, Single, 1988.

Tracklist:

1 Driving Home For Christmas

Engineer -- Justin Shirley-Smith Producer -- Chris Rea, Jon Kelly

2 Footsteps In The Snow

Producer -- Chris Rea

3 Joys Of Christmas

Mixed By -- Chris Rea, Jon Kelly Producer -- Chris Rea

4 Smile

Producer -- Chris Rea, Dave Richards

Illustration -- Greg Jakobek

It was originally released in December 1988 but re-entered the charts in 2007. In 2009, a video was made in aid of Shelter and all proceeds were donated to the charity. Celebrities who feature in the video include Martin Shaw, Mike Read, Gail Porter and Lionel Blair.

Former X Factor contestant Stacey Solomon recorded a version of the song which is currently being used in the Iceland supermarket Christmas commercials.

In a live interview on the BBC Radio 4 programme Today on December 16, 2009, Chris Rea said he wrote "Driving Home for Christmas" many years before he first recorded it. His wife had come down to London to drive him home to Middlesbrough in her Austin Mini to save money because it was cheaper to drive than travel by train. The inspiration for the song came as she and Rea were stuck in heavy traffic heading out of London with a long drive to Middlesbrough ahead of them. Chris Rea said "Driving Home for Christmas" is a "car version of a carol".

His song "Driving Home for Christmas", which originally reached #53 in the UK chart when first released in 1988, re-entered at #33 nineteen years later in December 2007, making it the first time the song had made the UK Top 40.

I'm driving home for Christmas

Oh, I can't wait to see those faces

I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah

Well I'm moving down that line

And it's been so long

But I will be there

I sing this song

To pass the time away

Driving in my car

Driving home for Christmas

It's gonna take some time

But I'll get there

Top to toe in tailbacks

Oh, I got red lights on the run

But soon there'll be a freeway

Get my feet on holy ground

So I sing for you

Though you can't hear me

When I get trough

And feel you near me

I am driving home for Christmas

Driving home for Christmas

With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me

He's just the same

Just the same

Top to toe in tailbacks

Oh, I got red lights on the run

I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah

Get my feet on holy ground

So I sing for you

Though you can't hear me

When I get trough

And feel you near me

Driving in my car

Driving home for Christmas

Driving home for Christmas

With a thousand memories...

Еду домой на Рождество

О! Не дождусь увидеть эти лица

Еду домой на Рождество, да

Я еду по этой дороге

Это было так давно

Но я приеду туда

Я пою эту песню

Чтобы скоротать время

Еду в моей машине

Еду домой на Рождество

Это займет некоторое время

Но я приеду туда

С головы до ног в огоньках

О! Красный свет на пути

Но скоро путь будет свободен

Я вступлю на святую землю

Я пою для тебя

Хотя ты не слышишь меня

Когда я еду

И чувствую тебя рядом со мной

Я еду домой на Рождество

Еду домой на Рождество

С тысячами воспоминаний

Я смотрю на шофера рядом со мной

Он тот же самый

Тот же самый...

This video has been published with absolute respect and admiration to Chris Rea's music !

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