Chris Rea - On The Beach

"On The Beach" is simply a perfect summer song. Chris Rea's 1986 song off his album of the same name is laidback, breezy and cool, a jazz-flavoured pop song that is a perfect vehicle for the British singer/songwriter's husky voice and elegant guitar-playing, here sounding like a cross between JJ Cale and Paco de Lucia and filtered through some nice Balearic beats before anyone knew what that was. Utterly beautiful and sounding expressly of summer more than anything else.

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