Driving Home for Christmas

"Driving Home for Christmas"
Single by Chris Rea
Released	1988
Format	7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, Cassette, CD
Genre	Pop Rock
Length	4:01
Label	Magnet
Writer(s)	Chris Rea
Chris Rea singles chronology
"I Can Hear Your Heartbeat (1988)" "Driving Home for Christmas" (1988) "Working on It" (1989)

"Driving Home for Christmas" is a single written by Chris Rea and released in December 1988 as a non-album single. The song peaked at #53 in the UK Single Chart in 1988, and re-entered the chart in 2007, peaking at #33. In 2000, Michael Ball released a version of the song for the album Christmas. ^{[1] [2]}

In 2009, twenty-one years after the song was first released, an original video was made in aid of Shelter; all proceeds were donated the charity. Celebrities who featured in the video included Martin Shaw, Mike Read, David Hamilton, Kristian Digby, Gail Porter, Kenny Thomas, Carole Decker, Matt D’Angelo, Mark Brennan, Giles Vickers and Lionel Blair.^[3]

Chart performance

Chart	Peak position
UK Singles Chart (2007)[2]	33
Norway Singles Chart (2008)[4]	2
Swedish Singles Chart (2010)[5]	26
Dutch Singles Chart (2008)[6]	17
Finnish Singles Chart (1999)[7]	17
Danish Singles Chart (2007)[8]	19
Austrian Singles Chart (2007)[9]	35
Swiss Singles Chart (2009)[10]	41
German Singles Chart (2008)[11]	31

References

1. ^ Michael Ball Christmas
2. ^ ^{a b} "Chart Stats – Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas". http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=15996. Retrieved 12 February 2010 (2010-02-12). 
3. ^ Shelter England
4. ^ "Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas". http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Rea&titel=Driving+Home+For+Christmas&cat=s. Retrieved 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06). 
5. ^ "Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas". http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Rea&titel=Driving+Home+For+Christmas&cat=s. Retrieved 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06). 
6. ^ "Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas". http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Rea&titel=Driving+Home+For+Christmas&cat=s. Retrieved 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06). 
7. ^ "Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas". http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Rea&titel=Driving+Home+For+Christmas&cat=s. Retrieved 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06). 
8. ^ "Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas". http://danishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Rea&titel=Driving+Home+For+Christmas&cat=s. Retrieved 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06). 
9. ^ "Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas". http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Rea&titel=Driving+Home+For+Christmas&cat=s. Retrieved 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06). 
10. ^ "Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas". http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Rea&titel=Driving+Home+For+Christmas&cat=s. Retrieved 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06). 
11. ^ "Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas (In German)". http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/REA%2CCHRIS/DRIVING+HOME+FOR+CHRISTMAS/single. Retrieved 6 August 2010 (2010-08-06).