The Memory Of A Good Friend from a 2000 album - King of the Beach.
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 (despite the goofy title) 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.
Chris Rea - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards,
Hammond organ, drum programming, producer.
Max Middleton - Rhodes piano
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
Lyrics:
I love the sun
I love the sea
I'd like to think that you
were here with me
But people are seasons
and seasons change
I'd like to think that you
are still the same
Sometimes you made me happy
Sometimes you made me cry
But the memory of a good friend
never dies
Between the lines
of an aging face
something special that you can't replace
But people are seasons
and seasons change
I'd like to think that you
are still the same
Sometimes you made me happy
Sometimes you made me cry
But the memory of a good friend
never dies
And I see you standing
by the harbour wall
And I see you waving
from the aeroplane
Two hearts together
laughing in the rain.
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