Chris De Burgh – 50 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:50 minutes | 356 MB | Genre: Folk, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Butler Records
“50” is the 2024 album by singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh, released in October 2024 by Rockware.
Chris celebrates a remarkable and rare career milestone during 2024; half a century as a recording artist.
Yet when he signed his first recording contract in 1974 and his debut album, ‘Far beyond These Castle Walls’, was released by A&M Records that same year, Chris did not look beyond the immediate future.
“As I held a copy of that record in my hands, I had absolutely no idea that this would even go any further,” he recalls. “I was incredibly naïve about the music business but I was full of hope and dreams and, spectacularly, my dreams not only came true, they came truer than true. I had no concept that I was going to last as long as this. Fifty years? Wow!”
A song from that first album offered a very early glimpse of what might lie ahead for Chris; the single ‘Flying’ spent 17 straight weeks at No.1 in Brazil. “I thought ‘Right, I’m off! A world star, overnight!’,” Chris remembers. “Not a chance. From then on, it was a real, real slog and a hard, hard time, but the grounding that I’d had in my parents’ hotel, Bargy Castle, performing for the guests there made me believe that I did have something that I could give to people.”
Tracklist:
1-01. Chris De Burgh – The Simple Truth (04:25)
1-02. Chris De Burgh – Here For You (03:39)
1-03. Chris De Burgh – The Grace of a Dancer (Re-Recording) (06:01)
1-04. Chris De Burgh – Legacy (Single Edit) (03:10)
1-05. Chris De Burgh – Be My Valentine (03:33)
1-06. Chris De Burgh – On This Day (02:57)
1-07. Chris De Burgh – It’s Never Too Late (03:52)
1-08. Chris De Burgh – The Lady In Red (Re-Recording) (04:10)
