Chris Rea - Seabird video free download

Seabird song is from "Deltics" album.

Deltics is the second studio album by Chris Rea, released in 1979. The title is a reference to the Deltic - class locomotives that were used on the UK East Coast rail network in the 1960s and 1970s.

This 1979 release is the sophomore recording from Chris Rea, featuring 11 different tracks. Indeed, whatever happened to Benny Santini?

The name that Magnet Records were considering using for their new solo signing but instead he went with his real name of Chris Rea, and Deltics was his second album after Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? and his first to reach the charts, althoug it didn't make much of an impact, only peaking at number 54 in the spring of 1979 -- not the best time for an introspective singer/songwriter to crash the charts.

Named after the British Rail class 55 of diesel locomotive trains that were built in the early '60s and were just about to be withdrawn from service, Rea showed his interest in various forms of transport that would continue throughout his recording career.

He took a leaf out of the Elton John songbook with the opening track "Twisted Wheel" which has a thumping piano running throughout and a melody not unlike Elton's song "Part Time Love." This style was continued on the song "Dance (Don't Think)" and the one single taken from Deltics, the track "Diamonds," but this was hardly surprising as the album was produced by Gus Dudgeon who had been influential in producing most of Elton John's albums to date.

However, there was a variety on the album that showed great promise, from these uptempo numbers to the great atmospheric guitar work by Robert Ahwry on the title track and the ballads

"She Gave It Away" and "The Things That Lovers Do."

"Raincoat and a Rose" was obviously going to tug at the heartstrings with a string section during the intro and the chorus, and the song did turn out to be about forbidden love while the track "Cenotaph" was an interesting two-minute instrumental that led into the more rock-oriented "Letter from Amsterdam."

Because Rea's career has lasted so long, still enjoying hit albums in the 21st century, his early work, which was not as commercially successful, is sometimes overlooked and Deltics is a prime example, a great album, hardly ever mentioned in discussions of Chris Rea's many recordings. ~ Sharon Mawer

Personnel:

Chris Rea - acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, 6-string guitar, slide guitar, accordion, piano, synthesizer

Robert Ahwai- guitar

Eoghan O'Neill - bass

Kevin Leach - keyboards

Max Middleton - keyboards

Dave Mattacks - drums

Adrian Rea - drums

Martin Ditcham - percussion

Norman Nosebait - Drum

Mick Hutchinson - Bass

Graham Watson - Organ

Album produced by Gus Dudgeon, engineered by Stuart Epps, mastered by Gordon Vicary at Utopia.

Seabird song, acoustic guitar Kevin Peak, strings arrangement Bruce Baxter.

Lyrics:

I can't run

In your eyes there's no place left to hide

You've seen my every mystery just show itself and die

So I will fly before you

And all is all to see

Take my hand, understand, there're no more foolish dreams

So many things we just can't share

Are standing in between

So I will fly before you

And all is all to see

I will always want you near in the shallow lights of day

No-one else will share my nights is all that I can say

And I will always want you

But I will always fly like a seabird

And I will always love you

But I will always fly...