G R A H A M
P A R K E R
(THE RUMOUR)
SINGER-SONGWRITER-MUSICIAN
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Graham Parker is a British rock singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.
Despite moderate commercial success, Parker has been hailed by
critics as one the most prominent musicians of his generation, with his wittily
heated, often class-conscious lyrics and energy-fueled music preceding the
arrival punk rock and new wave music. Many fellow musicians such
as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Frank Black have expressed admiration
towards his music. Parker also played himself in the comedy ‘This is 40’
starring Paul Rudd…Leslie Mann… Megan Fox, Jason Seigel, Albert Brooks, Melissa
McCarthy and John Lithgow.
GRAHAM
PARKER
CLOUD
SYMBOLS
TRACKLIST
1 Old Soul (Live) 2 Things I've Never Said (Live) 3 Back Door Love (Live) 4 Band Introduction (Live)
5 Hotel Chambermaid (Live) 6 White Honey (Live) 7 Ancient Past (Live) 8 Bathtub Gin (Live)
9 Lady Doctor (Live) 10 Dreamin' (Live) 11 Every Saturday Nite (Live)
12 You Left the Water Running (Live) 13 Not If It Pleases Me (Live) 14 Hold Back the Night (Live)
15 Rockin' Hawk (Live) 16 Heat Treatment (Live) 17 Soul Shoes (Live)
40th
Anniversary
GREY
AREA
By GRAHAM PARKER
40th Anniversary Edition
Digitally remastered and expanded 40th Anniversary Edition of
Graham Parker's 1982 solo debut including five bonus tracks. Another Grey Area
is the pivot point in Parker's remarkable career. While the singer-songwriter
is justly famous for the work he did with the Rumour during the first five
years of his record-making, 1975-1980, his parting of the ways with that
pub-rock band allowed him to explore a different kind of singing and a
different kind of songwriting. Recorded in New York with producer Jack Douglas
(John Lennon, Aerosmith) and musicians that included members of Billy Joel's
band, Another Grey Area spotlights Parker's evolving vocal abilities on one of
his strongest batches of songs to date. Digitally remastered by six-time Grammy
Award-winning engineer Mark Wilder with new liner notes by four-time Deems
Taylor Award-winner Geoffrey Himes, based on two interviews with Graham
Parker, 40 years apart.
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GRAHAM PARKER
Discography
Albums
Year Artist
credit Album title
1976 Graham Parker & The Rumour Howlin' Wind
1976 Graham Parker & The Rumour Heat Treatment
1977 Graham Parker &
The Rumour Stick to Me
1979 Graham Parker & The Rumour Squeezing Out Sparks
1980 Graham Parker & The Rumour The Up Escalator
1982 Graham Parker Another Grey Area
1983 Graham Parker The
Real Macaw
1985 Graham Parker & The Shot Steady Nerves
1988 Graham Parker The
Mona Lisa's Sister
1989 Graham Parker Human
Soul
1991 Graham Parker Struck by Lightning
1992 Graham Parker Burning
Questions
1995 Graham Parker 12
Haunted Episodes
1996 Graham Parker Acid
Bubblegum
2001 Graham Parker Deepcut
To Nowhere
2004 Graham Parker Your
Country
2005 Graham Parker & The Figgs Songs of No Consequence
2007 Graham Parker Don't
Tell Columbus
2009 Graham Parker Carp
Fishing On Valium
2010 Graham Parker Imaginary
Television
2012 Graham Parker & The Rumour Three Chords Good
2015 Graham Parker & The Rumour Mystery Glue
2018 Graham Parker & The Goldtops Cloud Symbols
2019 Graham Parker Squeezing
Out Sparks Solo Acoustic 40th Anniversary
Live albums
Graham Parker & the Rumour
Live at Marble Arch, 1976
At The Palladium, New York, NY, 1977
The Parkerilla (1978) UK No. 14, US No. 149, AUS No. 22
Live Sparks, 1979
Live in San Francisco 1979, 2009
Live Alone at the Freight And Salvage, 2012
Official Bootleg Box, 2014
Graham Parker
Live! Alone in America, 1989 (Recorded live in Philadelphia,
October 1988)
Live Alone! Discovering Japan, 1993
Live from New York, 1996
BBC Live in Concert (compilation 1977–91), 1996
The Last Rock and Roll Tour, 1997 (with the Figgs)
Not If It Pleases Me (BBC sessions 1976–77), 1998
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Graham Parker (live 1983),
2003
Live Cuts From Somewhere, 2003 (with the Figgs)
"Blue Highway", 2003 (Recorded live in Grant Park,
Chicago, Illinois on 4 July 1988)
!Live Alone: The Bastard of Belgium, 2005
Yer Cowboy Boot, 2005
103 Degrees in June, 2006 (with the Figgs)
Platinum Bastard, 2007
Live Alone At The Freight & Salvage, 2011
Five Old Souls: Live in Southampton, 2021 (with the Gold Tops
and the Rumour Brass)
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