Chris Rea The Memory Of A Good Friend

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 laidback 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 imag