Chris Rea-"The Road To Hell" (1989)

If there is one thing that everyone agrees on, it is the exquisite career of guitarist Chris Rea, with a style based on his peculiar broken voice, his original way of playing the guitar and his great compositions.
Born in the early 1950s in Middlesbrough, England, Rea has been a professional musician since the early 1970s releasing some of the most memorable soft rock albums.
Although it would not be until 1978 when he published his first album "Whatever happened to Benny Santini", with which he would achieve a gold record.
From here on, albums like "Deltics" (1979), "Tennis" (1980) or "Chris Rea" (1982) establish a career in which he begins to be respected and taken into consideration by critics and the public.
His albums cover disparate styles ranging from jazz to blues with great gospel touches that are the sounds that stand out in his work.
In 1983 he self-produced the album "Water Sign" in which his style took a more electronic look and the following works will maintain the same tonic, being very commercially received, "Wired the Moon" (1984) or "Shamrock diaries" (1985).
But the international popularity would arrive with the album "On the Beach" (1986) with which it manages to be number one in different countries with millionaire sales.
The following years will be marked by a series of great albums among which the fantastic "The Road to Hell" (1989) stands out, with which it would rise again to the first position in the charts with more than 7 million copies sold.
An album that contains memorable moments such as the frenetic album title song, the heartfelt "You Must Be Evil", the evocative "Looking For a Rainbow", or the dancing "Texas.
Auberge (1991) his next work and following the trend of the previous one, it would also become an international success, although to a lesser extent than this one "The Road To Hell".