{"id":26176,"date":"2025-12-22T20:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26176"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:48:41","slug":"driving-home-for-christmas-singer-chris-rea-dies-aged-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26176","title":{"rendered":"Driving Home For Christmas&#8217; singer Chris Rea dies aged 74"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to reports, British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, best known for the festive classic <em>Driving Home for Christmas<\/em>, has died aged 74 following a short illness, with his family saying he passed away peacefully in hospital surrounded by loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tributes have poured in online celebrating his legacy, from the enduring popularity of his Christmas hit to chart-topping albums like <em>The Road to Hell<\/em> and <em>Auberge<\/em>. Rea, who sold around 30 million records, is remembered as a defining voice in British rock and blues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, best known for the festive classic Driving Home for Christmas, has died aged 74 following a short illness, with his&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":161,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26178,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176\/revisions\/26178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}