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Driving Home to Hell for Christmas

Posted by Mod Lang (@modlang) on Dec. 22, 2025, 2:12 p.m.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/22/chris-rea-rock-and-blues-singer-songwriter-dies-aged-74

30 million records?! I’ve heard “Fool If You Think It’s Over” which I sometimes get confused with that J.D. Souther hit from around the same time, “If You’re Only Lonely” both very Roy Orbison-esque. That Christmas song must be an exclusively British phenomenon.

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Ah, good’ol yacht rock!