Graham Parker and the Rumour: Squeezing Out Sparks
Peter Silverton, Sounds, 17 March 1979
One current school of thought represented at our editorial meetings by the capitalist Ruislip reader faction has it that Graham Parker has well and truly missed the boat. The time for short, skinny and angry men in glasses has passed and hes been gazumped by Costello anyway. That kind of thing.
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