Graham Parker
Graham Parker
Graham Parkeris an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth18 November 1950
people brooms pens
Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.
smoking ifs smoke
If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.
song fun writing
I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.
men actors singers
Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.
parent done opera
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I'd done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they're living in a soap opera.
song writing soul
I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.
song morning writing
I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.
song ideas guitar
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.
smart records firsts
Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.
kids cutting boys
When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites.
science two snowflake
Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.
simple zombie firsts
My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.
darkness rope quitting
When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.
dad who-i-am people
My dad isn't sure how I make a living because I'm not in the newspapers or on music shows any more. The world is bigger than England, however, but for the large part, yes, people don't know who I am. What are you gonna do? Unless you're a superstar act that attracts young people because it might be their last chance to see you before you die, then it's fairly typical. I'm astonished that I have any audience at all, to be honest.