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.

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.

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 ...

The first time Graham Parker played Minneapolis, it was 1976 and he was on tour with his band The Rumour. “I remember getting out of the tour station wagon and I’d never felt cold like that ...

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 ...

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.