album cover, until it was sold in 2005 with all proceeds (£11,762) going to the charity NSPCC. He also owned the Ferrari 330 which was used as a donor car for the replica of Ferrari 250 Le Mans used in the 1996 movie La Passione. In 2014, he was completing a 22-year restoration of an original replica of a Ferrari 156 Sharknose Formula One racing car. He also joined Historic Racing Drivers Club, where he drives a 1957 Morris Minor 1000 police car. He has taken the opportunity to get involved in Formula One on a few occasions, including as a pit lane mechanic for the Jordan team during the 1995 Monaco Grand Prix. He recorded a song, "Saudade", in tribute to three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna. It featured prominently in the BBC documentary movie. Politics Between August 2008 and April 2010, some major newspapers erroneously reported that Rea had supported and donated tens of thousands of pounds to the Conservative Party. The donations were in fact made by a businessman called Chris Rea and not the musician. In an interview in 2012, Rea denied those claims and noted that this was a good example of how dangerous the internet can be at spreading misinformation. In a 2017 interview, amid the 2017 general election, Rea supported Jeremy Corbyn and even wrote a song called "What's So Wrong With A Man Who Tells The Truth?", saying "in the old way, Corbyn is useless. Because he says the wrong things. But the young people have had enough". Rea considers that the politicians and government of the UK and EU became out of touch with the common people. He is sceptical about the idea of unification of Europe because with a common European market "you [...] force different people to live together [when] they simply do not want to", recalling the downfall of Yugoslavia. Discography Studio albums Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? (Magnet, 1978) Deltics (Magnet, 1979) Tennis (Magnet, 1980) Chris Rea (Magnet, 1981) Water Sign (Magnet, 1983) Wired to the Moon (Magnet, 1984) Shamrock Diaries (Magnet, 1985) On the Beach (Magnet, 1986) Dancing with Strangers (Magnet, 1987) The Road to Hell (WEA, 1989) Auberge (EastWest, 1991) God's Great Banana Skin (EastWest, 1992) Espresso Logic (EastWest, 1993) La Passione (soundtrack, EastWest, 1996) The Blue Cafe (EastWest, 1998) The Road to Hell: Part 2 (EastWest, 1999) King of the Beach (EastWest, 2000)