We here at Ultimate Classic Rock have been thrilled that Graham Parker, one of rock's most underrated songwriters, reunited with his old backing band the Rumour. Their mixture of biting lyrics ...

Fortunately for British rocker Graham Parker, who plays such a character in the new Judd Apatow comedy “This Is 40,” his decades in the music business have left him with a thick skin and a ...

"I did have a mission to wipe out progressive music," says Graham Parker, who set the rock world on its ear in 1976. "Even though I'd been into it two years before, it suddenly became redundant.

The drummer and keyboard player have scattered to other gigs. Yet when Graham Parker decided to reassemble the Rumour, the backup band that played on his first four albums before their breakup ...

One of Graham Parker’s great choruses is his simplest. The British singer and songwriter delivered it near the end of a reunion set at the Roxy on Tuesday night with his razor-sharp band the Rumour.

If Elvis Costello wanted to bite the hand that feeds, Graham Parker chewed the whole arm off. Fame is a weird destiny and so is obscurity. Both seem to recognize and claim their own. Given its low ...

In 1976, British songwriter Graham Parker released his debut album, "Howlin' Wind." Backed by a quintet of pub rock veterans dubbed The Rumour, it was a furious exercise in English soul ...

It’s a good thing that Graham Parker can take a joke. When the 62-year-old Brit agreed to appear in This Is 40, he knew he would be playing a semifictionalized version of himself, an aging ...

But it's still got great hooks throughout -- one of Parker's specialties. Hear Parker perform live in concert from WXPN in Philadelphia as part of the 10th annual NON-COMMvention.