Chris de Burgh-"Spanish Train and Other Stories" (1975)

Chris de Burgh is considered one of those great singers in the history of pop-rock, who nevertheless has the aura of a cult artist, despite the fact that he is known worldwide for his famous song "Lady In red".
Son and grandson of officers in the British army (his father was a colonel and his grandfather was the chief of the British general staff in India during the Second World War), he was born in Argentina, where his father was stationed in the late 1940s.
Back in England in the 60s, he became interested in the incipient musical movement that prevailed in those years, and after finishing his studies he dedicated himself professionally to music, and in 1974 he obtained his first contract with A&M Records who published his first album "Far Beyond These Castle Walls" and promoted him by going on tour as the opening act for Supertramp in support of his album "Crime of The Century".
A year later Burgh released his second album "Spanish Train and Other Stories" with which he achieved international recognition with a superb album that today is considered a cult album.
"Spanish Train and Other Stories" contains a series of great compositions that move between pop and epic rock with certain parallels to the style of The Moody Blues, such as the epic song that gives the album its title, the emotional "Lonely Sky", the cabaret "Patricia The Stripper", the symphonic "A Spaceman Came Traveling" the folk pop "The Tower" or the progressive "Just Another Poor Boy".