The discography of British-Irish musician Chris de Burgh consists of 23

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s, 9

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s, 4

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s, and 66

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, along with 8

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s and

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. His 23

s consist of 19 of completely new material, 2 albums of cover versions, 1 album featuring a mix of new songs, cover versions, and re-recordings and 1 consisting of acoustic versions of previously released tracks. His debut album, ''

Far Beyond These Castle Walls ''Far Beyond These Castle Walls'' is the first album by Chris de Burgh, released by A&M Records in 1974. The title refers to Bargy Castle, which is shown on the back of the album cover. Reception '' Billboard'' in its review of 29 March 1975 ...

'', released in 1974, reached number 1 in Brazil, but failed to chart elsewhere. De Burgh's first album to chart in the

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was '' The Getaway'', released in 1982, charting at number 30. His earlier albums, '' Spanish Train and Other Stories'' and '' Crusader'' charted after this success. De Burgh's first album to reach number one in the UK Albums Chart was 1988's '' Flying Colours'', his second top 10 album chart placing after 1986's '' Into the Light''. Chris de Burgh was signed to

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for many years (1974–2004), but he now has his own label, '' Ferryman Productions''. His recent albums are released by German label,

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Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Box sets

* ''Much More Than This'' (2006)

Singles

1970s

1980s

¹ Appeared in album chart as cassette EP

1990s

2000 onwards

¹ Download-only singles - no physical releases

Non-album tracks

In addition to the catalogue of songs featured on his studio albums, de Burgh has also recorded a number of songs not included on the original editions of the studio albums. These include new songs featured on compilation albums, soundtracks, live albums, single B-sides, stand-alone singles and songs featured on special edition releases of studio albums. The songs listed in the table below are available on official releases. In addition to the songs listed above, professional live recordings exist of live performances by de Burgh of the following songs.

Videography

De Burgh has released 7 live concert videos to date. Only the 2010 Footsteps Live DVD is still in print and available to buy new. Most of the videos are not complete concerts, with only the Munich Concerts VHS from 1985 being close to a full concert recording. Most of these videos are available to view on YouTube.

References

External links

Chris de Burgh Official Website
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Entry at 45cat.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:De Burgh, Chris Discographies of British artists Discographies of Irish artists

Discography Discography is the study and cataloging of published sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified music genres. The exact information included varies depending on the type and scope of the discography, but a discography entry ...