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IN FOCUS: The British rock singer spoke with Roisin O’Connor, just days before his death aged 74, about the story behind one of the UK’s most popular festive songs

Chris Rea recalls how he wrote “Driving Home For Christmas”, in an interview shared just days before his death at the age of 74.

The singer had battled pancreatic cancer and had his pancreas removed.

Middlesbrough-born musician had hits with Driving Home for Christmas, On the Beach and The Road to Hell

Driving Home For Christmas singer Chris Rea had just been banned from driving when he wrote the famous festive song, and nowadays he belts it out when he is stuck in traffic - leaving other motorists in hysterics.

If you’re driving home for Christmas (insert Chris Rea earworm here) – and by that I mean the old family home – you’re likely to be experiencing a familiar mix of excited anticipation and faint dread of being trapped in close quarters with relatives. There’s nothing like Christmas for mental…

As pop idol, hit-making solo artist, and with the most star-studded CV of any sideman, the affable Welshman offers up his latest release, The Invisible Bluesman, and reflects on his storied career

The Collectors’ Car Sale had a number of high-end vehicles included in it.

Inspired by the blues greats, the UK singer-songwriter developed a melodic open E slide style that’s very much his own