Word: rumours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parker tried almost everything else, from rat breeding to gas pumping to tomato picking, finally scraped together enough money for a London grubstake. He got to town just in time to get caught up in the first seismic shudders of punk and to join forces with the Rumour, a band that sounds like a five-man scorched-earth policy. Parker and the Rumour recorded their first album in 1976, got tagged both as punk's precursor and then, just months later, as the movement's first sellout. Soon after that Parker's career stalled over a hasty...
Dedicated folk fans frequent the Listening Room often; some claim it is the place to catch the up-and-coming stars. Rumour has it that Bob Dylan got his start at Passim. "Yup", says Donlin. "Passim has been here for only ten years, but eighteen years ago, when the club was called 47, Bob Dylan used to come...
...Lowe and Edmunds are a little like an informal consortium, switching roles and swapping talents. Lowe produced the most recent Elvis Costello album, and has worked with the galvanic Graham Parker and the Rumour (a group made up of some Brinsley Schwarz refugees). Edmunds temporarily forsook his own production chores to back up Lowe on his tour of the colonies. "I would never go onstage with another lineup," Edmunds says. "I've got the best, and we're just starting...