Chris Rea "Dancing With Strangers"

Dancing with Strangers is the ninth studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 1987. It became Rea's first major success in the UK, peaking at #2, behind Michael Jackson's Bad, and spent 46 weeks in the charts, achieving Platinum accreditation. It reached the Top 10 in six other European countries, while in New Zealand it became a number one album.

"Let's Dance" was released as the first single and, like the album, became a major hit for Rea in UK, peaking at #12. In tone with the success of the album, "Let's Dance" became a major hit in New Zealand as well, peaking at #2. The other singles released from this album were "Loving You Again" (UK #47), "Joys of Christmas" (UK #67) and "Que Sera" (UK #73), which shares a verse taken from an earlier song from Chris Rea called "When You Know Your Love Has Died."

Track listing

All songs by Chris Rea.

1. "Joys of Christmas" - 5:15
2. "I Can't Dance to That" - 4:19
3. "Windy Town" - 4:25
4. "Gonna Buy a Hat" - 4:25
5. "Curse of the Traveller" - 6:26
6. "Let's Dance" - 4:07
7. "Que Sera" - 5:23
8. "Josie's Tune" - 2:19
9. "Loving You Again" - 5:40
10. "That Girl of Mine" - 3:41
11. "September Blue" - 3:09
12. "I Don't Care Any More" - 2:10
13. "Donahue's Broken Wheel" - 3:02
14. "Danielle's Breakfast" - 4:33

Tracks 12, 13 and 14 are bonus tracks not available on the initial LP release.

Chris Rea – producer, mixing

Stewart Eales – engineer

Jean Jacques Lemoine – engineer

Justin Shirley-Smith – engineer

Jon Kelly – mixing

Willie Grimston – coordination

Mark Entwistle – cover illustration

Shoot That Tiger! – sleeve design

Jim Beach – management

Paul Lilly – management

Recorded at Mountain Studios (Montreux, Switzerland); Studio Miraval (Le Val, France); Hartmann Digital (Bavaria, Germany).

Mixed at Studio Miraval