{"id":11578,"date":"2025-12-23T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/povestea-melodiei-driving-home-for-christmas-scrisa-de-chris-rea-pe-un-drum-cu-ninsoare\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:09:07","slug":"povestea-melodiei-driving-home-for-christmas-scrisa-de-chris-rea-pe-un-drum-cu-ninsoare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/povestea-melodiei-driving-home-for-christmas-scrisa-de-chris-rea-pe-un-drum-cu-ninsoare\/","title":{"rendered":"Povestea melodiei \u201eDriving Home for Christmas\u201d, scris\u0103 de Chris Rea pe un drum cu ninsoare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infomusic.ro\/2025\/12\/a-murit-chris-rea\/\">Regretatul Chris Rea<\/a> a scris \u201eDriving Home for Christmas\u201d cu mul\u021bi ani \u00eenaintea primei \u00eenregistr\u0103ri, dup\u0103 cum povestea \u00eentr-un interviu la BBC Radio 4 (2009) \u0219i ulterior pentru <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2016\/dec\/19\/chris-rea-how-we-made-driving-home-for-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> \u00een 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Istoria c\u00e2ntecului \u00eencepea \u00een 1978. R\u0103mas f\u0103r\u0103 contract \u0219i cu pu\u021bini bani, muzicianul se \u00eentorcea acas\u0103, \u00een Middlesbrough, de la o sesiune de studio la Abbey Road, Londra. Mersul cu ma\u0219ina era pe atunci mai ieftin dec\u00e2t trenul, so\u021bia venind \u00een ora\u0219 s\u0103 \u00eel ia cu un vechi automobil Austin Mini. Pe drumul de \u00eentoarcere, traficul aglomerat pe ninsoare i-a dat inspira\u021bie. Urm\u0103rind al\u021bi \u0219oferi, care p\u0103reau cu to\u021bii tri\u0219ti, Chris Rea a \u00eenceput s\u0103 c\u00e2nte \u201eWe\u2019re driving home for Christmas&#8230;\u201d \u0219i a continuat s\u0103 scrie versurile chiar \u00een ma\u0219in\u0103.<\/p>\n<p>Ajun\u0219i \u00eentr-un final acas\u0103, \u00een frig \u0219i noapte, Rea descoper\u0103 o scrisoare de la PRS America. Primea vestea c\u0103 piesa \u201eFool (If You Think It\u2019s Over)\u201d ajunsese hit \u00een Statele Unite. Plicul con\u021binea \u0219i un cec \u00een valoare de 15.000 de lire sterline, care urma s\u0103 le schimbe via\u021ba so\u021bilor Rea. Versurile \u201eDriving Home for Christmas\u201d aveau s\u0103 fie puse la p\u0103strare \u00eentr-o cutie al\u0103turi de alte compozi\u021bii neterminate.<\/p>\n<p>Dup\u0103 mai mul\u021bi ani, pe parcursul c\u0103rora cariera lui Chris Rea evoluase radical, muzicianul testa dou\u0103 piane noi \u00een studio, \u00eempren\u0103 cu claviaturistul Max Middleton.\u00a0Cei doi c\u00e2ntau \u00een glum\u0103 \u00een stilul Count Basie, Chris Rea imit\u00e2ndu-l pe Nat King Cole. Cineva din studio a remarcat c\u0103 le ie\u0219ise o pies\u0103 ce merita notat\u0103. Acela a fost momentul c\u00e2nd Chris Rea s-a \u00eentors la vechea cutie \u0219i a scos versurile de la \u201eDriving Home for Christmas\u201d, care s-au potrivit perfect. Piesa a fost lansat\u0103 ca fa\u021b\u0103 B la single-ul \u201eHello Friend\u201d din 1986. Succesul a fost nea\u0219teptat, dup\u0103 ce un DJ a \u00eentors discul \u0219i a \u00eenceput s\u0103 difuzeze melodia.<\/p>\n<p>La sugestia lui Max Middleton, melodia a fost re\u00eenregistrat\u0103, cu coarde. Middleton a semnat \u0219i intro-ul jazzistic, iar melodia a primit un aranjament clasic, inspirat de colindele anilor \u201950.\u00a0C\u00e2ntecul a lost relansat ca single \u00een noiembrie 1988, av\u00e2nd succes la radio, petrec\u00e2nd 5 s\u0103pt\u0103m\u00e2ni \u00een clasamentul de single-uri din Marea Britanie, urc\u00e2nd p\u00e2n\u0103 pe locul 53.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eDriving Home for Christmas\u201d a fost cel de-al patrulea single extras de pe compila\u021bia \u201eNew Light Through Old Windows\u201d lansat\u0103 \u00een octombrie 1988.<\/p>\n<p>\u00cencep\u00e2nd din decembrie 2007, c\u00e2nd a atins pozi\u021bia a 33-a, piesa a \u00eenceput s\u0103 reintre anual \u00een Top 40. \u00cen ianuarie 2022 a urcat p\u00e2n\u0103 pe locul 10. La data scrierii articolului, la o zi dup\u0103 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infomusic.ro\/2025\/12\/a-murit-chris-rea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dispari\u021bia lui Chris Rea<\/a>, melodia e pe #30.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u0218i \u00een alte \u021b\u0103ri, precum Elve\u021bia, Lituania, Malta, Ucraina, Polonia, Suedia, Ungaria, Olanda, Danemarca, Germania, Austria \u0219i Norvegia &#8211; \u201eDriving Home for Christmas\u201d a reu\u0219it s\u0103 intre \u00een TOP 10, iar \u00een Slovenia \u0219i Croa\u021bia a fost chiar Number One.<\/p>\n<p>Chiar dac\u0103 nu se num\u0103r\u0103 printre cele mai difuzate, \u201eDriving Home for Christmas\u201d r\u0103m\u00e2ne unul dintre cele mai iubite c\u00e2ntece de Cr\u0103ciun. Dac\u0103 ai drumuri cu ma\u0219ina \u00een perioada S\u0103rb\u0103torilor, hitul e binevenit! Nu de alta, dar a str\u00e2ns aproape 660 de milioane de red\u0103ri pe Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Ascult\u0103 piesa live &#8211;\u00a0 Chris Rea &#8211; Driving Home for Christmas &#8211; (Live on National Lottery Stars, 2000) <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.infomusic.ro\/2025\/12\/povestea-melodiei-driving-home-for-christmas-chris-rea\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0Cite\u0219te continuarea pe pagina autorului<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regretatul Chris Rea a scris \u201eDriving Home for Christmas\u201d cu mul\u021bi ani \u00eenaintea primei \u00eenregistr\u0103ri, dup\u0103 cum povestea \u00eentr-un interviu la BBC Radio 4 (2009) \u0219i ulterior pentru The Guardian \u00een 2016. Istoria c\u00e2ntecului \u00eencepea \u00een 1978. R\u0103mas f\u0103r\u0103 contract \u0219i cu pu\u021bini bani, muzicianul se \u00eentorcea acas\u0103, \u00een Middlesbrough, de la o sesiune de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noutati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-fm.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}