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Graham Parker: Journey To The Centre Of Your Spine
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 March 1979
A CONCRETE BARN with a stage at one end: cables, cases, dust. A hyper-active dog in the grip of irresistible sexual forces is scooting around ...
Graham Parker And The Rumour: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 14 April 1979
WHILE NO ONE was looking, Graham Parker has nimbly and single-mindedly stepped through his inner tangles and finally balanced purpose with expression and also brought ...
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Graham Parker: Southampton University, Southamption
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 24 January 1976
YOU CAN PICTURE the scene – it's the same one that goes down on the first night of every major college tour; equipment trouble, late ...
Graham Parker & The Rumour: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 1 May 1976
WITH SOME justification, Graham Parker is being touted as a major new British talent. But, though I witnessed Parker and his fine band, the Rumour, ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 19 June 1976
"There he goes looking like a cross between Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen," jested Martin Belmont, Rumour guitarist. 'He' was GRAHAM PARKER on his way ...
Graham Parker: Believe Everything You Hear
Profile and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976
IT'S LUCKY for Graham Parker that he's come along at a time when the Jack Nicholson Academy of professional Beautiful Losers is providing the most ...
Live Review by Paul Nelson, The Village Voice, 20 December 1976
Graham Parker Pours It All Out ...
Graham Parker and the Rumour: Heat Treatment (Mercury)
Review by Simon Frith, Rolling Stone, 30 December 1976
HEAT TREATMENT, Graham Parker’s second Mercury album, confirms the promise of his debut, Howlin’ Wind, which appeared earlier this year. The rapidity of the followup ...
Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, January 1977
NOW THAT THAT MOST extraordinarily tedious and self-indulgent of rock 'n' roll years has finally stumbled to some sort of half-assed conclusion, I am able ...
Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 5 March 1977
PARIS? Graham Parker and the Rumour loathe the place.Their reasons? ...
The Rumour: 'I Believe In Graham Parker'
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 12 March 1977
As The Rumour plan their own group LP, guitarist MARTIN BELMONT reaffirms his faith in Big G and the solidarity of the Parker/Rumour operation ...
Around the bend on Stiff Records
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 April 1977
WHAT KIND of record company would use as its motto the phrase "reversing into tomorrow"? Which record company would define its purpose, on its first ...
Graham Parker: Shades Of The Pink Parker
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 October 1977
NINE WAYS TO AVOID THE HEAT TREATMENT ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 April 1978
YEAH, WE know: just what the world needs is another double live album, right? ...
Graham Parker: The On-Going Story Of Little Men In Glasses
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 22 April 1978
Graham Parker, in this instance — who reflects on the vagaries of the rock power struggle while socking it to 'em in Ireland. When you're ...
Graham Parker & the Rumour, Pere Ubu: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 13 May 1978
MAYBE GRAHAM Parker should have held back on his forthcoming live album and waited to see what this tour might produce. For my money the ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 10 June 1978
IT'S THOSE damned shades that frighten me so much. What goes on behind them? Where are his eyes? Has he got eyes? The imagination runs ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, July 1978
GRAHAM PARKER'S a nice guy, writes great songs. He leads a tight, exciting band full of talented players, and his stage presence looms larger than ...
Blackbushe Festival - Nice To See Ya, Bob
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 22 July 1978
...OR RATHER, IT would have been, but at least we heard him and that made the hassles worthwhile, reports our survivor of the million dollar ...
Graham Parker: The Venue, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 11 November 1978
GRAHAM PARKER was the perfect choice to open The Venue, Virgin boss Richard Branson's new club in the shell of the old Metropole Cinema hard ...
Graham Parker WANTS YOU…To Get Stuck!
Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, December 1978
GRAHAM PARKER had reason to be happy. And he was. ...
Jack Nitzsche: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Interview by Joel Selvin, Melody Maker, 23 December 1978
Pop legends don't come much more elusive than veteran producer Jack Nitzsche, who apprenticed himself to Phil Spector. After his success with Mink DeVille, he's currently ...
Graham Parker and The Rumour: Live in Belfast
Live Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 10 March 1979
GRAHAM PARKER hasn't changed much – the small guy with the high forehead sporting an Oxfam jacket, T-shirt, drainpipes and tinted specs – but his ...
Graham Parker and the Rumour: Squeezing Out Sparks
Review by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, 17 March 1979
AS FAR AS I'M concerned, Graham Parker is one of the great rock singers. I'd pay happily for a tape of him singing in the ...
Graham Parker and the Rumour: Squeezing Out Sparks
Review by 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 ...
Graham Parker: Squeezing Out Sparks
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 17 March 1979
WHEN YOU PLAY this album for perhaps the tenth time, when you return to 'You Can't Be Too Strong' and listen to that one song ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 24 March 1979
THE HOSPITALITY room backstage at Newcastle City Hall welcomed me like a cold echo. A table load of cellophane-covered salads and the muffled sound of ...
Graham Parker And The Rumour: The Up Escalator
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, June 1980
THIS IS one of the best albums I've ever heard. It's so good that professional priorities went out the window and before I sat down ...
Graham Parker: Going Down On The Up Escalator
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 July 1980
Nick Kent investigates the rise and abrupt fall of Graham Parker And The Rumour's commercial success and smells a rat. ...
Graham Parker: Another Grey Area
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 13 March 1982
OH, DEAR. Talk about unfortunate titles... ...
Graham Parker: Another Grey Area (RCA)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 20 March 1982
WHILE IT'S oft been said that The Rumour couldn't do without Graham Parker, here's a slab of evidence that the reverse is also true. Another ...
Graham Parker: Another Grey Area
Review by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, June 1982
IF, AS GRAHAM PARKER declared on Squeezing Out Sparks, "passion is no ordinary word," then Another Grey Area should by all rights have been no ...
Tired and Feathered: Graham Parker - The Real Macaw
Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 24 September 1983
IT WOULD BE very tempting to take a withering look at this LP’s horribly punning title and matching sleeve, and crack an equally feeble witticism ...
Stick To Me: Graham Parker Looks Back In Anger
Interview by Chris Bourke, Rip It Up (New Zealand), November 1988
GRAHAM PARKER was a contender. Short, with a reason to live, he kicked the late 70s into life with a passion and fury that was ...
Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, February 1995
I HAVE A PLACE HERE IN THE Catskill mountains in New York state, about nine miles away from Woodstock. I've had it since 1988, before ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 2001
FROM CAMBERLEY petrol pump attendant to punk-soul supremo: GP's golden era repackaged and remastered. ...
Graham Parker & The Rumour: "It's R&B from the future – you just haven't caught up with me yet"
Retrospective and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Record Collector, August 2005
AS GRAHAM PARKER & the Rumour trooped off stage after what turned out to be their last show together at the German Rock TV show ...
Graham Parker repeats the Rumour
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 23 November 2012
IN THE NEW Judd Apatow movie, This Is 40, Paul Rudd's character runs an indie record label that reunites Graham Parker and the Rumour, the ...
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