<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Warm & Tender Lover" (1981) </Td> <Td> "Fool If You Think It's Over" (1981) </Td> <Td> "Our Love" (1982) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Warm & Tender Lover" (1981) </Td> <Td> "Fool If You Think It's Over" (1981) </Td> <Td> "Our Love" (1982) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" is the title of a popular song originally publicly released in 1978 by the British singer - songwriter Chris Rea . Rea also wrote the words and composed the music of the song, which appears on his 1978 debut album, Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? . The single's charting success in the USA earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1979 . </P> <P> "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" was the lead single from Rea's debut album Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? which was recorded at producer Gus Dudgeon's Thames Valley recording studio The Mill . The song's inspiration was the experience Rea's younger sister Paula had had some years previously of being devastated at losing her first boyfriend, "Fool ..." 's lyrics being the advice (real or imagined) with which Rea had responded to his sister's experience . Rea would recall that he had written "Fool ..." as a song which Al Green might record: (quote:) "I'd always seen it as a Memphis (soul) song (but) I never had the chance to voice my opinion about what I thought about the production" of his own recording of the song of which Rea has elsewhere stated: "(It was in the) wrong key . It ended up being this huge California thing (see California Sound). It's the only track I never played guitar on which tells you something about the spirit of it . On top of that, it was just a huge hit . So there was nothing I could do . It was like:' This is not me!"' Rea did play keyboards on "Fool ..." with the track's background vocals provided by Read and the Mill's assistant engineer Stuart Epps . </P>

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