To think Chris Rea’s family should drive to him one Christmas?

[Sosijiz]

Poor guy. Every. Bloody. Year.

Wouldn’t it be nice, just for once, if they drove over to him so that he could have the day off from being stuck in the annual traffic jam on the Road to Hell?

Top to toe in tailbacks when he could be at home, sleeves rolled up, stuffing the Turkey with a nice glass of Rioja on the sideboard with his name on.

C’mon guys. Do the right thing. Drive over to Chez Chris this year.

Gregory Porter was singing Do You Hear What I Hear on This Morning this morning.

A Child, a Child shivers in the cold
Let us bring him silver and gold

Dude, maybe bring the shivering child a blanket!

In fact, as he's from Cornwall, I'm not sure how he got out... they must have trebucheted him over the Tamar...

I've lived in Cornwall for a year or 50 and still haven't driven through Middlesbrough.

That some proper accent he has too.

I love Chris Rea, damn sexy voice on him!

I can well imagine why he was rushing to get home for Christmas- He used to live in a gorgeous house, Ulrika Jonsson on one side and my boss on the other, in lovely leafy Berkshire.

I always thought he was singing " Soon there'll be a three way..." No wonder he was keen to get home!

I wonder if it was the mention of c r y p t o ? Can't really fault MNHQ for that tbh!

Hopefully, then he can stop singing his boring ass song.

Heard on the radio last week that one of the ferry companies that had to cancel/reroute passengers due to Holyhead being closed had this song as their hold music. There were one or two customers who were a bit irate when they finally got off hold.

They changed it to something else...

No no he was going home to leafy Berkshire

There's another thread where the Cornish PILs won't drive to see the new baby because they want to 'punish' their DS and DIL for daring to move away...

Old Chris was on Mortimer and Whitehouse, seems like a dear bloke who's been through a lot of health problems... Merry Christmas to them all! Because no matter how 80s-corny or ubiquitous we find Driving Home for Christmas, I think it secretly gets us all in the Feels... 🥺

This made me snort. Maybe it’s a Christmas tradition at Chris’s house?

Home is home.

Oh my god, that's brilliant. I think they call it a Mondegreen? I won't be able to hear it any other way now! 😂

This is a real live news story today.
Last night we watched Die Hard 2.

Won't anyone think of poor old John McClane?

(My sympathies to anyone flying American today).

TBF I LOVED driving home for Christmas on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Stick the radio on and I didn't care about the traffic.

I don't know why.

That Dishforth turn off is a magnet for accidents. No wonder there is a tailback. Insult to injury after having spent an extra hour going through the Barnsdale Bar roadworks.

I read his car failed it's MOT last week, no driving home for Christmas for him!

Suggs and the rest of the Madness guys are in the car next to him. It's not a jaguar.

I’m going up there and back on Friday, I’ll keep an eye out for him doing the return journey south

Whaaaat? I thought Chris Rea was American. I had images in my head of him on a massive 8 lane freeway followed by a route 66 type road in a Pontiac or Sedan. It's all ruined now 😭

Hasn't Chris Rea got a Ferrari? (possibly more than one)

In which case he's probably impossible to keep out of it and the record company had to insist "Driving Home For Christmas (In My Ferrari)" did not strike the right note.

Checked, he certainly had a couple in the past . "Driving Home For Christmas (In One Of My Ferraris)" would have been even worse.

I may be alone here, but I HATE this bloody song! His voice bugs me, and it's just an annoying song.

🎵 'Look at the driver next to me..... he's just the same....' 🎵

It's the only Christmas song I can think of that I always leave off my Christmas compilations for the car - or the house. And that makes me switch radio stations.

https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/driving-home-for-christmas.html

Now, if his record company had coughed up for the train fare we could have had 'Deltic Home for Christmas'

No he's not. He's a much feted Middlesbrough boy (and his wife is a Middlesbrough lass, actually a Stainsby Girl (cf the song). He went to my husband's school and his parents went to church with my in laws. They owned ice cream parlours.