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Tennis (album)

album by Chris Rea

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ1948402 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tennis is the third studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 1980. The album features two singles one of which includes a non-album B-side.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Tennis (album)” as album by Chris Rea. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tennis, album and Chris.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tennis, album and Chris providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Tennis (album)”, the useful work is to connect “album by Chris Rea” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1948402. The first chronological checks are 1980.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tennis (album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tennis (album) primary sources, Tennis (album) archive and Tennis research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tennis (album)”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Tennis (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.