Chris Rea "On The Beach (Japanese Edition Remastered)"

On the Beach is the eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 1986, and built on the success of the preceding Shamrock Diaries. It reached No. 11 in the UK Albums Chart (and also in Sweden), topped the Dutch charts (where it charted for more than nine months), reached number two in West Germany and No. 4 in New Zealand (where is also spent more than nine months in the charts). It reached the Top 10 in Norway and Czechoslovakia. In 2019, a deluxe remastered version of the album was released.

In an interview for the deluxe edition of the album, Rea said of the song Giverny, written after a visit to Monet's celebrated home, "I didn't want to be there. I was only there because she (his wife, Joan) was there... so there's kinda, a funny twist to it".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Chris Rea.

1. "On the Beach" 5:04
2. "Little Blonde Plaits" 4:17
3. "Giverny" 5:39
4. "Lucky Day" 3:57
5. "Just Passing Through" 5:20
6. "It's All Gone" 7:28
7. "Hello Friend" 4:19
8. "Two Roads" 3:44
9. "Light of Hope" 4:34
10. "Auf Immer und Ewig" 4:11
11. "Freeway" 4:12
12. "Bless Them All" 2:30
13. "Crack That Mould" 4:34

Chris Rea – producer

David Richards – producer, mixing

Stewart Eales – recording engineer

Stylorouge – sleeve design

Ekkeheart Gurlitt – photography

Francoise La Port – photography

Jim Beach – management

Paul Lilly – management

Tracks "Freeway", "Bless Them All" & "Crack That Mould" were not on the original 1986 LP but included on the CD release

Recorded at Anderburr Recording Studios (Bray, England).

Mixed at Mountain Studios (Montreux, Switzerland).