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Spanish Train and Other Stories was even more successful than its predecessor, as it gave de Burgh his first platinum record in Canada. To this day, it remains one of the most played songs on the planet; in America alone, it has subsequently been the recipient of six annual ASCAP (Association of Composers and Publishers) Awards, presented to acknowledge the track as one of the Top 20 most played records in the United States in a period of 12 months.
Come 1990, Chris’ German popularity was such that he was the only international artist personally invited by then Chancellor Kohl to perform at the historic public celebrations marking the re-unification of East and West Germany.
It was also the first album to be released in the United States since 1994's This Way Up.
De Burgh is very committed to giving his very best to his fans. Chris’ extensive repertoire of songs has taken his audience on travels through continents, cultures and centuries - in cinematic proportion.
In 2008 Chris recorded his album ‘Footsteps,’ an album which represented a deeply personal and candid appraisal by Chris of songs which have influenced and affected the way he has crafted his own particular musical imprint.
This was fine by de Burgh as he explained to Billboard's Ken Stewart: "You have to go in for the big picture. Subsequent records, almost in turn, continued to steadily draw in audiences around the world; Scandinavia was early to embrace the vivid story-telling that is Chris' unique talent, South Africa quickly tuned in to his power as a live performer, north America even demanded its own specially compiled greatest hits collection, ‘Best Moves’.
Flett, along with his partner Guy Fletcher, was the owner of Egg Productions. For that album, released in 1986, he included the song “For Rosanna”, which he had written to celebrate the 1984 birth of his daughter. ‘Footsteps’ crashed into the Top 5 of both the UK and German album charts.
Another fan favourite and UK and German Top 5 album, Chris’ 2010 ‘Moonfleet & Other Stories’, took him on the most ambitious, challenging and evocative journey yet of his long and successful career.
His global chart smash hit, "Lady in Red," was de Burgh's only entrant into the higher echelons of the British and American pop charts. When the family moved to the Emerald Isle, de Burgh's parents purchased a decrepit castle that they decided to turn into a bed and breakfast. With sales of his albums now approaching 50 million worldwide, his unique, filmic slant on musical story-telling raised his singer-songwriter bar to unprecedented new heights.
‘A Better World’ was released on September 23, 2016, a little over three months after the 30th anniversary, on June 1, of the release of Chris’ hugely successful album ‘Into The Light’, which established him as a true, worldwide superstar.
The campaign for a ‘A Better World’ commenced with the release of opening single ‘Bethlehem’, a dynamic rock song reminiscent of the global hit ‘Don’t Pay The Ferryman’, and continued into 2018 and beyond with a world tour that travelled through the UK, Europe, Canada, South Africa and the Middle East.
During 2019, Chris returned to the road, this time taking his ‘Classic Albums’ tour across the UK and Europe and performing two of his most outstanding recordings back to back and in their entirety; his 1986 release ‘Into The Light’ has the been the biggest-selling album of his career, while ‘Moonfleet & Other Stories’, from 2010, the LP he has most enjoyed making.
Re-imagining the fabled tale of a folklore favourite has been the latest creative challenge for Chris.
Instead, he chose to attend college and enrolled at Trinity College in Dublin, where he pursued studies in both English and French. De Burgh's follow-up album, Spanish Train and Other Stories, was released later that year.
While this scenario would be an extremely daunting and vexing situation for many other artists, de Burgh actually relished it and actively sought to follow his musical muse far from the pop paparazzi of England and America's all-encompassing entertainment monolith. I think it's been overrated as a source of talent, certainly new talent. According to Dave Doohan of the Surfshak web site, the song "Lady in Red" was inspired by a fleeting glance de Burgh had of his wife in a crowded club.
Commenting on his Canadian success, de Burgh told Cockburn, "I view myself as a storyteller and Canada was one of the key places where I realized I did have a style and it was the storytelling thing."
At the End of a Perfect Day was released in 1977 and was followed two years later by Crusader. After two seasons with the Canadiens' minorleague affiliate, the HamiltonBulldogs of the AmericanHockey League, he joined the NHL in 2005–06.