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Chris Rea

1951 to 2025 6 documented presences 6 places

Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Chris Rea across 6 places, from 1951 to 2014. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Christopher Anton Rea (4 March 1951 – 22 December 2025) was an English rock and blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Chris Rea was documented, and when

4 March 1951exact date
Middlesbroughattested “Christopher Anton Rea was born on 4 March 1951 in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire to an Italian father, Camillo Rea, born in January 1922 in Guisborough, England (whose father, also called Camillo, was born in Arpino, Lazi…” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
4 March 1951exact date
North Riding of Yorkshireattested “Christopher Anton Rea was born on 4 March 1951 in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire to an Italian father, Camillo Rea, born in January 1922 in Guisborough, England (whose father, also called Camillo, was born in Arpino, Lazi…” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
4 March 1951exact date
Guisboroughattested “Christopher Anton Rea was born on 4 March 1951 in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire to an Italian father, Camillo Rea, born in January 1922 in Guisborough, England (whose father, also called Camillo, was born in Arpino, Lazi…” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
4 March 1951exact date
Arpinoattested “Christopher Anton Rea was born on 4 March 1951 in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire to an Italian father, Camillo Rea, born in January 1922 in Guisborough, England (whose father, also called Camillo, was born in Arpino, Lazi…” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
November 2014month
Londonattested “November 2014 saw Rea embark on a European tour called The Last Open Road Tour, with the UK part of the tour commencing on 1 December in Manchester and ending on 20 December in London.” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
November 2014month
Manchesterattested “November 2014 saw Rea embark on a European tour called The Last Open Road Tour, with the UK part of the tour commencing on 1 December in Manchester and ending on 20 December in London.” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea

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Places Chris Rea is documented in

London1 presence · 2014Manchester1 presence · 2014
Arpino1 presence · 1951
Guisborough1 presence · 1951
Middlesbrough1 presence · 1951
North Riding of Yorkshire1 presence · 1951

Other places tied to Chris Rea in the record

In each of these, a source puts Chris Rea and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Chris Rea was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1980year
Middlesbroughmentioned “Rea recorded his self-produced third album, Tennis (1980), with musicians from Middlesbrough, and it received positive reviews.” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
1980year
Chipping Norton Recording Studiosmentioned “The album contains tracks recorded in 1980 at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, most of which had never been released.” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
1984year
Moonmentioned “With the album's success along with that of the subsequent Wired to the Moon (1984), which was his first Top 40 album in the UK (reaching No.” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
1986year
Slane Concertmentioned “In 1986, Rea was a support act along with The Bangles and The Fountainhead for Queen at Slane Concert for an estimated 80,000 audience.” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
3 February 2012exact date
Hamburgmentioned “On 3 February 2012 the Santo Spirito Tour started at Congress Center Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, with additional visits to Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium and France.” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea
3 February 2012exact date
Polandmentioned “On 3 February 2012 the Santo Spirito Tour started at Congress Center Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, with additional visits to Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium and France.” source: Wikipedia: Chris Rea

Documented at the same place, the same year

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Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting. Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.

How to read this page

Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.

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Sources

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