Over the last 10 or 15 years I have chatted to Chris Rea at 1996 various race meetings, usually about racing, occasionally about music and very oiccasionall7y about his film La Passione. I have always thought the music in the film was great, even the Shuirley bassey song which he dislokes, but I had never seen the film. At the Goodwood Revival 4 or 5 years ago, we were in the Goodwood Hotel at the bar having a quiet drink together and I felt I could ask him where I might be able to get a copy of the film hacvuing failed to find anything previously on the internet. He told me that even he didn't have a copy! And that he actually disliked the final product so much as it had been hijacked by Warner Bros that he hoped it wouldn't be released on DVD.
At this years Revival we were in the same race and opposite each other in the paddock and he took great delight in telling me that he had bought the rights to the film and he wa