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{{Short description|Song by Chris Rea}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Fool (If You Think It's Over)
| cover      = Chris Rea Fool (If You Think It's Over) single cover.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Chris Rea]]
| album      = [[Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?]]
| B-side     = Midnight Love
| released   = July 1978
| recorded   = 1977
| studio     = [[Sol Studios|The Mill]]
| genre      = [[Soft rock]]<ref>{{cite news|first= Rebecca |last= Fletcher |title= Interview: Chris Rea - MY ROAD FROM HELL; How a near-death experience made singer Chris Rea realise what he really wanted out of life. |newspaper= [[Daily Mirror]] |publisher= [[TheFreeLibrary.com]] |date= 28 September 2002 |access-date= 26 January 2017 |url= http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Interview%3A+Chris+Rea+-+MY+ROAD+FROM+HELL%3B+How+a+near-death+experience...-a092208461}}</ref>
| length     = 3:39 (single version)<br />4:47 (album version)
| label      = [[Magnet Records|Magnet]] (UK)<br />[[United Artists Records|United Artists]] (US)
| writer     = [[Chris Rea]]
| producer   = [[Gus Dudgeon]]
| prev_title = So Much Love
| prev_year  = 1974
| next_title = Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?
| next_year  = 1978
| misc       = {{External music video|{{YouTube|3aZBqrHs4qo|"Fool If You Think Its Over (Official Music Video)"}}}}
}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Fool (If You Think It's Over)
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Chris Rea]]
| album      = [[New Light Through Old Windows]]
| B-side     = [[Loving You Again]] (live)
| released   = October 1988
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Pop rock]], [[soft rock]]
| length     = 4:03
| label      = [[Magnet Records|Magnet]]
| writer     = [[Chris Rea]]
| producer   = Chris Rea, [[Jon Kelly]]
| chronology = [[Chris Rea]] Dutch
| prev_title = On The Beach (Summer '88)
| prev_year  = 1988
| next_title = [[Driving Home for Christmas]] - The Christmas EP
| next_year  = 1988
}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Fool If You Think It's Over
| cover      = Fool If You Think It's Over - Elkie Brooks.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Elkie Brooks]]
| album      = [[Pearls (Elkie Brooks album)|Pearls]]
| B-side     = [[Giving It Up for Your Love|Givin' It Up for Your Love]]
| released   = December 1981
| recorded   = 1980
| studio     = [[Sol Studios|The Mill]]
| genre      = [[Pop rock]], [[soft rock]]
| length     = 3:55 (single version)<br />4:58 (album version)
| label      = [[A&M Records|A&M]]
| writer     = [[Chris Rea]]
| producer   = [[Gus Dudgeon]]
| prev_title = Warm & Tender Lover
| prev_year  = 1981
| next_title = Our Love
| next_year  = 1982
}}
"'''Fool (If You Think It's Over)'''" is a popular song originally released in 1978 by the [[United Kingdom|British]] singer-songwriter [[Chris Rea]]. Rea also wrote the lyrics and composed the music of the song, which appears on his 1978 debut album, ''[[Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?]]''. It peaked number 12 in the US, becoming his highest charting single there. The single's charting success in the US earned him a [[Grammy Award|Grammy]] nomination as [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5gIpAAAAIBAJ&pg=2129,3598894&dq |title=Bee Gees Head Lists For 6 Grammy Awards |date=9 January 1979 |access-date=23 April 2010 |work=[[The Daytona Beach News-Journal|Daytona Beach Morning Journal]] |publisher=The News-Journal Corporation}}</ref>

==Background==
"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 [[Sol Studios|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.<ref name="Jon Kutner">{{cite web|url=http://www.jonkutner.com/fool-if-you-think-its-over-chris-rea/| title=Fool If you Think It's Over (Chris Rea)| website=JonKutner.com |date=June 21, 2015 |access-date=19 January 2016}}</ref> Rea wrote "Fool" intending that it be recorded by [[Al Green]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://guitar.com/features/chris-rea/ |title=How I got started... Chris Rea|date=18 March 2016|website=Guitar,com|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> He intended it to be a [[Memphis blues]] song,<ref name="Jon Kutner"/> but according to Rea, "It ended up being this huge [[California Sound|California]] thing. 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!{{' "}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2015-12-01/chris-rea-straight-shooter|title = An Interview with the Straight-Talking, No-F**ks-Given Chris Rea|first=Henry|last= Yates|website= Classic Rock|date=1 December 2015}}</ref> Rea played keyboards on "Fool" with the track's background vocals provided by Rea and the Mill's assistant engineer [[Stuart Epps]].

The song, written in the key of [[G major]], uses the [[ii–V–I progression|ii–V–I turnaround]], common in jazz and R&B.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/fool-if-you-think-it-s-over-digital-sheet-music/20271235 |title=Fool (If You Think It's Over) |website=sheetmusicplus.com |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref>

Unsuccessful in its initial UK [[single (music)|single]] release in March 1978, "Fool" was afforded a June 1978 release in the US where it entered the [[Top 40]] of the [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] singles chart in ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine in July 1978 to reach a #12 peak on the Hot 100 dated 16 September 1978,<ref>{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits |edition=6th |year=1996 |publisher=[[Billboard Publications]]}}</ref><ref name=allmusic>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5236/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} |title=Chris Rea > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=17 December 2009}}</ref> then being in the second week of a three-week tenure at #1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks|Easy Listening chart]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Hyatt |first=Wesley |title=The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits |year=1999 |publisher=Billboard Publications}}</ref> On the strength of its US success Rea was invited to perform "Fool" on the 28 September 1978 ''[[Top of the Pops|TOTP]]'' broadcast which evidently facilitated a belated UK chart run for the single with a 28 October 1978 peak of #30.<ref name=allmusic/><ref name=cr_ukchart>{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/What%20A%20Fool%20Believes |title=The Official Charts Company - Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over) |website=[[Official Charts Company|Official Charts]] |access-date=17 December 2009}}</ref>

Rea recalled, during the 1978 Yuletide overnight drive home from London, considering abandoning what he saw as his failing singing career to fall back on his family's established business of running a restaurant. However, when Rea and his wife Joan reached their [[Middlesbrough]] home in the early morning "we opened the door of the house we were just about to lose the mortgage on, and the snow fell into the hall and it didn’t melt – it was that cold – and there was one letter on the floor." The letter was accompanied by a substantial royalty cheque generated by "Fool",<ref>{{cite web|first=Henry |last=Stancu |url=https://www.thestar.com/autos/2015/12/22/christmas-drive-festive-tune-for-the-road-home.html |title=Christmas Drive: Festive tune for the road home &#124; Toronto Star |website=Thestar.com |date=22 December 2015 |access-date=13 October 2016}}</ref> enabling Rea to buy a [[Ferrari 308 GT4]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Ahuja |first=Kieran |title=Art-omotive pieces by musicians Chris Rea and Bryan Ferry up for sale |url=https://www.driving.co.uk/news/art-omotive-pieces-chris-rea-bryan-ferry-sale/ |website=Driving.co.uk from The Sunday Times |date=28 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530151117/https://www.driving.co.uk/news/art-omotive-pieces-chris-rea-bryan-ferry-sale/ |archive-date=30 May 2020 |quote=Rea buying himself a Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 after his single Fool (If You Think It’s Over) became a hit. |url-status=live}}<!--background: https://www.driving.co.uk/news/interview/motor-singer-chris-rea/ --></ref> The journey inspired his later hit "[[Driving Home for Christmas]]".

Rea would remake "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" for his 1988 self-produced album ''[[New Light Through Old Windows]]''. This version of "Fool" had a Dutch single release charting at #90. In 2007 Rea would again remake "Fool" in a session at The Mill – now known as Sol Studios – where the original had been recorded. Rea produced and played all instruments on the track, which was included on his 2008 European [[compact disc|CD]] release ''Fool If You Think It's Over (The Definitive Greatest Hits)''.

The music journalist Wayne Jacik mentioned the single in his work ''Billboard Book of [[One-hit wonder|One-Hit Wonders]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Wayne Jancik|title=The Billboard Book of One-hit Wonders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJYzAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Billboard Books|isbn=978-0-8230-7622-2|page=380}}</ref>

== Chart performance (Chris Rea) ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Chart performance for "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" by Chris Rea
! colspan="6"|Weekly charts (1978 <small>if not otherwise indicated</small>)
! colspan="4"|Year-end charts (1978)
|-
!colspan="2"|Regional chart
! Peak #
! colspan="2"|Regional chart
! Peak #
!colspan="2"|Regional chart
! Yr.-end #
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|Australia<ref name="australian-charts1">{{cite web|author=Steffen Hung |url=http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092 |title=Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts) |publisher=Australian-charts.com |access-date=3 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602084720/http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092 |archive-date=2 June 2016 }}</ref> 
| style="text-align:center"|39 
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|[[New Zealand Singles Chart|New Zealand]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Rea&titel=Fool+%28If+You+Think+It%27s+Over%29&cat=s |website=charts.nz |title=Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over) |access-date=17 December 2009}}</ref> 
| style="text-align:center"|31
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|Australia<ref name="australian-charts1"/> 
| style="text-align:center"|—
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|Canada
| style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' Top Singles<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4647a&volume=29&issue=26&issue_dt=September%2023%201978&type=1 |title=RPM Volume 29 No. 26, September 23, 1978 - RPM |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca|access-date=17 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012062258/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4647a&volume=29&issue=26&issue_dt=September%2023%201978&type=1|archive-date=12 October 2012}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center"|15  
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"|[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<ref name=cr_ukchart/> 
| style="text-align:center"|30
|colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|Canada<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0070b&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=r1a06d0uila1lada5hb6oqguq0 |title=RPM Top Singles - Volume 30, No. 14, December 30 1978|publisher=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |access-date=3 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118125536/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0070b&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=r1a06d0uila1lada5hb6oqguq0|archive-date=18 January 2015}}</ref> 
| style="text-align:center"|101
|-
| style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|''RPM'' Adult<br>Oriented Playlist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.4659&volume=29&issue=25&issue_dt=September%2016%201978&type=1 |title=RPM Volume 29 No. 25, September 16, 1978 - RPM|website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |access-date=17 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012062326/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.4659&volume=29&issue=25&issue_dt=September%2016%201978&type=1|archive-date=12 October 2012}}</ref> 
| style="text-align:center"|1 
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|US
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|[[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard''<br>Hot 100]]<ref name=allmusic/> 
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|12
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|US
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|''Billboard''<br>Hot 100<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1978.htm |title=Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978 |publisher=Musicoutfitters.com |access-date=3 November 2015}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|84
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|France
| style="text-align:center"|52
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"|Nether-<br>lands 
| style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|[[Dutch Top 40]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.top40.nl/index.aspx?week=40&jaar=1978 |title=Nederlandse Top 40 - Week 40, 1978 |language=nl |website=Top40.nl|access-date=17 December 2009}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center"|25
| style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]''<br>Top 100<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19780916.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 9/16/78 |publisher=cashboxmagazine.com |date=1978-09-16 |access-date=3 November 2015 }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center"|10
| style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|''Cash Box''<br>Top 100<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/1978YESP.html |title=Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1978 |publisher=cashboxmagazine.com |date=1978-12-30 |access-date=3 November 2015 }}</ref> 
| style="text-align:center"|86
|-
| style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|[[Single Top 100]]<br>('88 remake) '''1988'''
| style="text-align:center"|90 
| style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|''Billboard''<br>[[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Easy Listening]]<ref name=allmusic/>
| style="text-align:center"|1
| style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"|''Billboard''<br>[[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Easy Listening]]<ref>''Billboard'' volume 90 #51 (23 December 1978) p.110</ref> 
| style="text-align:center"| 7
|}

==Covers==
===Elkie Brooks version===
In 1982 [[Elkie Brooks]] had a Top 20 hit in the UK and South Africa with her remake, titled "Fool If You Think It's Over", which like the Chris Rea original was produced by [[Gus Dudgeon]] and recorded at [[Sol Studios|the Mill]]. Brooks' version was one of eight tracks recorded with Dudgeon in 1980 for her 1981 twelve-track album release ''[[Pearls (Elkie Brooks album)|Pearls]]'', which also includes four of Brooks' previous hit singles. Brooks said, "Most of [''Pearl'''s new] material had been chosen by [A&M exec] Derek Green or Gus Dudgeon. I had insisted that we did [sic] 'Fool'. Chris Rea has always been one of my favourite musicians and writers and I thought the song was pure class."<ref name="Finding My Voice">{{cite book| first=Elkie| last=Brooks| year=2012| title=Finding My Voice: my autobiography| publisher=Robson Press| location=London| isbn=978-1-8495-4299-9}}</ref>

Brooks' version of "Fool" was issued as a single in December 1981 when ''Pearls'', issued the previous month, was in the Top Ten of the UK album chart. Three advance singles had been issued off the album since July 1980 without charting. "Fool" rose to a number 17 peak on the UK chart dated 27 February 1982,<ref name=OCC>{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/Fool%20If%20You%20Think%20It's%20Over |title=The Official Charts Company - Elkie Brooks - Fool If You Think It's Over |website=[[Official Charts Company|Official Charts]] |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> assisted by two ''[[Top of the Pops|TOTP]]'' performances by Brooks, one of which was re-run. After taping her 11 February 1982 ''TOTP'' performance of "Fool", Brooks was approached backstage by a fan, who Brooks soon realised was in fact Chris Rea incognito, asking for her autograph.<ref name="Finding My Voice"/> In Ireland, "Fool" became Brooks' highest-charting single with a number six chart peak.<ref name="IRE"/>

In a 2014 pre-concert interview Brooks, when asked what "big numbers" she looked forward to singing, replied: "I still really like '[[Don't Cry Out Loud (song)|Don't Cry Out Loud]]', '[[Sunshine After the Rain]]' and of course 'Fool If You Think It's Over': that is a terrific song."<ref>{{cite web|last=Roberts |first=Jo |url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/whats-on/news/fool-if-you-think-its-28806/ |title='British Queen of Blues' Elkie Brooks is coming to the Britannia Theatre, Chatham |website=Kentonline.co.uk |date=17 December 2014 |access-date=13 October 2016}}</ref>

"Fool If You Think It's Over" by Elkie Brooks was the first track played on [[Radio Caroline]] when the station resumed broadcasting at 10 a.m. 20 August 1983 after a down period of 41 months.<ref name="Jon Kutner"/>

===Chart history===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Chart performance for "Fool If You Think It's Over" by Elkie Brooks
!Chart (1982)
!Peak<br />position
|-
{{singlechart|Ireland2|6|song=Fool If You Think It's Over|rowheader=true|access-date=2 September 2018|refname=IRE}}
|-
!scope="row"|South Africa ([[Springbok Radio]])<ref>{{cite web|title=SA Charts 1965–March 1989|url=http://www.rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(C).html|access-date=2 September 2018}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|18
|-
!scope="row"|[[UK Singles Chart|UK Singles]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref name="OCC"/>
| style="text-align:center;"|17
|}

===Other versions===
[[Thomas Anders]] remade "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" for his 1989 album release ''Different''. This version was the third produced by Gus Dudgeon.  The song served as the theme to the 1990s British sitcom ''[[Joking Apart]]''. [[Kenny Craddock]] arranged and performed this version.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jokingapart.co.uk/composers.htm |title=Joking Apart: The Composers |access-date=17 December 2009}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1978 (U.S.)]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
* [{{AllMusic|class=song|id=t2761054|pure_url=yes}} Song review] by Mike DeGagne at [[Allmusic]]
* [http://www.secondhandsongs.com/song/33209 List of cover versions of "Fool (If You Think It's Over)"]
* {{YouTube|n9StXjCtYD8|Listen to "Fool (If You Think It's Over)"}}

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