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CHRIS ANDREWS - the MR. YESTERDAY MAN, the man of today
Since over 50 years and still goin` strong and how !

 

Just over forty years ago on the 07th of October 1965 a song called YESTERDAY MAN conquered the British Charts and then all other countries on the continent !

YESTERDAY MAN stayed for nearly a year in several chart-lists and was one of the biggest bestsellers of 1965/ 1966. The song was crowned to be one of the HYMNS OF THE SIXTIES !

CHRIS ANDREWS belongs to the 25 most successfull male singers of the past 40 years.

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30.000 people watching him in Reutlingen/Stuttgart, successful at a gala-night in Cologne and with his own band in Leipzig

Born on the 15th of October 1942 in London, he started his legendary career already in the age of 15. As a musician he played in several clubs and was already at the end of the fifties in BBC most recommended "OH BOY"-TV-Show. 1961/ 62 he played at the Hamburg Starclub, just at the same time when The Beatles were there. Together with his band he made the first record as CHRIS RAVEL & THE RAVERS.

Back in England he really started his songwriter-career. He wrote lots of songs for Adam Faith, one of the biggest was "THE FIRST TIME", for Sandie Shaw the number one hits "LONG LIVE LOVE", "GIRL DON`T COME", "TOMORROW".

More or less by chance Chris started his second career as a singer. He had written a song for Sandie Shaw, that she turned down. Chris believed in his composition and so BILL WYMAN from the Rolling Stones convinced Chris to record the song himself. So Chris went in the studio and paid himself for the production, the result was the mega-seller "YESTERDAY MAN", a song that belongs to the most played and most populars songs of the sixties. Worldwide were sold over 10 million copies. If you add all the hundreds and hundreds of compilations over the last 40 years, he sure reached the 100 millions. His second Nr. 1 - Hit on the continent was "TO WHOM IT CONCERNS" and then Chris started touring all over Europe.

"SOMETHING ON MY MIND", "STOP THAT GIRL" and "WATCHA GONNA DO NOW" followed. The next milestone in his singer-songwriter-career started in 1969/70 with "PRETTY BELINDA", a number 1-hit in Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Spain and dozens of other countries all over the world. Lots of other artists recorded that song in their language and had as well Nr.1-hits with it.

Nr. 1 in Italiy with JOHNNY MIRANDI, Nr. 1 in France with CLAUDE FRANCOIS and Nr. 1 in Germany with two German artists. "CAROL OKAY", "MICHIGAN RIVER", "YOYO", "LAZY DAYS", "I LOVE YA", "SUGAR DADDY" and "DO YOU WANNA LOVE ME" were the hits in the German speaking countries in the seventies and eighties. In the same period Chris wrote songs for THE TREMELOES, FRANKIE VALLI, CHER, LONNIE DONEGAN, MARILEE RUSH and SUZI QUATRO, in Germany for PETER ORLOFF, BATA ILLIC, GRAHAM BONNEY, HAZY OSTERWALD, JOHNNY TAME, RAMONA and PETER SEBASTIAN. 1989 he wrote hits in Holland for the FORTUNES and ALBERT WEST. In 1989/1990 he had a song in the film "GOOD MORNING VIETNAM". Agnetha Fältskog (ABBA) recorded for one of her latest albums "REMEMBER ME".

Chris Andrews has been and still is in the most successful TV-shows in Europe. Non-stop touring, he is on stage in places like the BERLIN WALDBÜHNE, WESTFALENHALLE DORTMUND, OPEN-AIR BAD SEGEBERG, KÖLN-ARENA, STADIUM OBERHAUSEN, SPORTHALLE HAMBURG, COLOR LINE ARENA HAMBURG, GRUGAHALLE ESSEN, OLYMPIA-HALL MÜNCHEN, HALLENSTADION ZÜRICH, CASTLE EHRENBREITSTEIN in KOBLENZ and many others.

He loves being on stage and his audience loves him !

Chris is a first-class entertainer and presents Goldies, Rock`n Roll-classics (like Buddy Holly Everly Brothers or Carl Perkins), ballads and all his wellknown hits.

Gala-shows in Zürich, Antwerpes or Hamburg,

Open-air-shows in Berlin or Vienna, Chris is at home on the stages of Europe !

Today Chris Andrews lives with his partner Alexandra in London, in Spain and as well in Germany. Non-stop jetting from one show to another !

Just like Johnny Walker ......... still going strong ( and how ) !

Chris Andrews Chris Andrews mit Ehefrau Alex Chris Andrews
Chris in 2006 and with his wife Alexandra (from the German magazine DAS NEUE BLATT)
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