Rea, Chris | Original Album Series | 5CD

Chris Rea is a British singer, guitarist, lyricist and music producer, born on 4 March 1951 in Middlesbrough. He died on 22 December 2025 in Berkshire.

Original Album Series is a 5 disc box set compilation released by WEA on 9 March 2010. It contains five CD album reissues. Chris Rea is credited as songwriter, and the music is classified as pop rock, soft rock and blues rock.

Track List

Disc 1

1. Nothing's Happening By the Sea
2. Deep Water
3. Candles
4. Love's Strange Ways
5. Texas
6. Let It Loose
7. I Can Hear Your Heartbeat
8. Midnight Blue
9. Hey You
10. Out of the Darkness

Disc 2

1. Steel River
2. Stainsby Girls
3. Chisel Hill
4. Josephine
5. One Golden Rule
6. All Summer Long
7. Stone
8. Shamrock Diaries
9. Love Turns to Lies
10. Hired Gun

Disc 3

1. On the Beach
2. Little Blonde Plaits
3. Giverny
4. Lucky Day
5. Just Passing Through
6. It's All Gone
7. Hello Friend
8. Two Roads
9. Light of Hope
10. Auf Immer Und Ewig
11. Freeway
12. Bless Them All
13. Crack That Mould

Disc 4

1. The Road to Hell (Part I)
2. The Road to Hell (Part II)
3. You Must Be Evil
4. Texas
5. Looking for a Rainbow
6. Your Warm and Tender Love
7. Daytona
8. That's What They Always Say
9. I Just Wanna Be With You
10. Tell Me There's a Heaven

Disc 5

1. Espresso Logic
2. Red
3. Soup of the Day
4. Johnny Needs a Fast Car
5. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
6. Julia
7. Summer Love
8. New Way
9. Stop
10. She Closed Her Eyes