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Graham Parker

Graham Parker came out of London in the mid-1970s with a sharp, wiry sound that didn't quite fit the punk explosion happening around him. He worked with a...

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Graham Parker's wiry, literate rock and roll.

A sharp songwriter who came out of London in the 1970s with The Rumour and kept going.

For that early, sharp feel, 'Stick to Me' and 'Hard Side Of The Rain' still land. They frame the tense, literate rock he's been doing all along.

He arrived with a tense, direct sound that stood apart from the punk scene, captured on records like 'Squeezing Out Sparks'. Songs like 'Hard Side Of The Rain' have that agitated, smart energy that never really left his writing. He's kept at it for decades, from 'Heat Treatment' in 1976 to 'Cloud Symbols' in 2018, always with that same wiry core.

He started with The Rumour in the mid-1970s, putting out 'Heat Treatment' and 'Squeezing Out Sparks'. After going solo in the 1980s, he kept making albums like 'Another Grey Area' and reunited with the band for 'Three Chords Good' in 2012.

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Graham Parker came out of London in the mid-1970s with a sharp, wiry sound that didn't quite fit the punk explosion happening around him. He worked with a band called The Rumour, and they put out records like 'Heat Treatment' in 1976 and 'Squeezing Out Sparks' in 1979. Songs like 'Stick to Me' and 'Hard Side of the Rain' had a kind of tense, literate energy that got him noticed.

He went solo in the 1980s and kept making albums, though they didn't always get the same attention as those early ones. Parker kept writing and touring anyway, putting out records fairly regularly over the next few decades. In 2012, he got back together with The Rumour for some shows and a new album called 'Three Chords Good'.

His discography is long and varied, from 'Another Grey Area' in 1982 to 'Cloud Symbols' in 2018. The music has stayed rooted in that same direct, slightly agitated style he started with, even as the production changed around it.

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