Flying visit

THE best way to describe Chris de Burgh’s style is that he is a storyteller rather a pop or rock musician.

He released his first album in 1975 and the single Flying spent 17 weeks at No 1 in Brazil a country that has a huge record buying population.

As his collection of album releases grew so he next broke big in Scandinavia and then South Africa.

He set his heart on the US market and he wasn’t disappointed as his 1986 album Into The Light contained one of the biggest selling singles of the year, Lady in Red which was also on the soundtrack of the 1988 film Working Girl.

Supposedly reflecting his feeling, the first time that he saw his wife to be Diana (to whom he is still married), the single went on to sell eight million copies and almost every year appears in the