CHRIS DE BURGH
JUly 14th an event at Octopus TV. The great Chris de Burgh gave an interview to Andrew Eborn. Chris is the man responsible for one of the great romantic ballads “Lady in Red” In fact many people only know him from that song. It caught the imagination of so many people back in the eighties.But here is a man with many separate lives.
He lives in a beautiful Norman Castle in Ireland and bears a name with great prestige from the days of William the Conqueror ,His ancestor Hubert de Burgh was the chief advisor to Richard the Lionheart. He is justly proud of his ancestry but believes that every poor child in the world deserves as much respect as much love and care as the children of Royalty.
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At the age of 72, Chris has a lovely well lived-in face with expressive eyebrows. His motto is Live Life, Live well. The only way to live is to be yourself. He speaks quickly and naturally without any kind of pomposity or affectation.
He took the hard road to his preferred profession, singing in Berlin nightclubs. Songs like the Lonnie Donegan favourite ‘My Old Man’s a Dustman’.
“The Hard road teaches you humiliation,” he said. “I come from the world of entertainers. I hate miserable songs”
He also found out about the dangers of filming. When helping to rescue Jane Seymour from the Wicked Baron, he nearly drowned swimming across the moat when his tights all filled up with water.
This was a very long and meaningful interview, Andrew had done so much research into his life that whenever Chris stopped for breath, Andrew would remind him of something else in his past. It is the fullest interview I have ever seen.
He gave Andrew a virtual tour of his house into the study which has walls plastered with gold and platinum discs. Fifty million records and he’s still writing.
He is due to release his new album “Robin Hood” in September and he has a full diary of events in UK cities booked in for October this year.
He showed another picture
These are the hands of men, the hands that can kill.
He talked of the famous football match on Christmas Day in World War one. When the German and the English played football as a friendly match for one day, and the very next day had to return to killing each other.
But of course, at this particular time, when the unveiling of the Princess Diana Statue is revealed, thoughts about her came to the fore towards the end of the interview. Chris had a particular fondness for the Princess and the wonderful work she had been doing On her death he wrote a new song, full of the deep emotion he felt on her cruel early death. “There’s a New Star up in Heaven tonight” He was a member of her funeral and spoke with great feeling about the reaction of the people both in and out of the Abbey.
Here is a man who speaks from the heart. His music is far away from the pop world of today but it still has an enormous amount of appeal for a huge audience of fans who love the stories and honesty of the work of Chris de Burgh
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