★★★★★
At age twenty-eight, singer-songwriter Christopher Cross literally took the music biz by storm in 1979 with the release of his self-titled, Top Ten debut. The record, Christopher Cross, went on to sell millions. It earned the San Antonio, Texas native an amazing five Grammy Awards and spawned four Top Twenty singles, including the #2 hit "Ride Like the Wind" and the #1 smash ballad "Sailing...
- www.ink19.com
2011-08-05
★★★★★
Absolutely acceptable in the 80s, at least at the start of the decade, Texan soft-rocker Christopher Cross is best remembered for accumulating a stack of awards for his 1979 debut album. An eponymously titled collection, it spawned a massive hit in Sailing, which triumphed in two categories at the 1980 Grammy Awards. Cross won four overall, and added an Oscar and a Golden Globe a year later for his theme to the Dudley Moore-starring movie Arthur...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Having suffered a commercial decline with the ballad-filled Another Page, Christopher Cross took a harder rocking approach with his third album, Every Turn of the World. Gone were the L.A. session aces and the SoCal chorus of famous fellow pop singers, as Cross wielded his SynthAxe and producer/co-writer, Michael Omartian his keyboards, along with a rhythm section, on a selection of up-tempo songs, many of which had 'save-the-world' themes. It didn't work...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
The two-disc Walking in Avalon is a rather schizophrenic affair, with one disc devoted to all new material and the other concentrating on live renditions of Christopher Cross hits like "Sailing," "Arthur's Theme" and "Think of Laura." The collection is likely to appeal to devoted fans...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Although it went ignored at the time, Rendezvous was Christopher Cross' best album in ten years. It wasn't because he changed his style -- he remained an MOR balladeer with a fondness for slick productions and sentimental melodies -- but there's a little bit of an edge to his writing, and his songs are uniformly memorable. It may be a minor victory, but it's a victory nonetheless, and it's one that makes Rendezvous welcome to many fans of his first two albums.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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