Although Graham Parker (b. London, 1950) emerged from the
London pub-rock scene in the early '70s he has recently
pointed out that he really wasn't part of that scene, and
his influences were Top of the Pops, the Supremes, the Four
Tops, The Rolling Stones and singer songwriters like Bob
Dylan and James Taylor.
His disavowal notwithstanding, he is remembered mostly from
that period when pub rock became the British new wave, the
era that also made the reputations of Nick Lowe, Dave
Edmunds, Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson.
Parker's 1976 debut album Howlin Wind with the Rumour
(Brinsley Schwarz (guitar), Bob Andrews (keyboards), Martin
Belmont (guitar), Andrew Bodnar (bass) and Steve Goulding
(drums) was a tour de force of tight playing and powerful
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