{"id":14063,"date":"2012-12-12T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14063"},"modified":"2012-12-12T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:08:58","slug":"watch-reunited-graham-parker-the-rumour-on-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/watch-reunited-graham-parker-the-rumour-on-conan\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Reunited Graham Parker &#038; the Rumour on Conan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the desperate-for-rock, pre-punk days of 1976 we played <strong>Graham Parker &amp; the Rumour&#8217;s Howling Wind<\/strong> and <strong>Heat Treatment<\/strong> (both produced by <strong>Nick Lowe<\/strong>) albums to death.\u00a0 Sounding like a mix of <strong>Jagger<\/strong> and <strong>Van Morrison<\/strong>, <strong>Graham Parker<\/strong> brought a powerful grit and ferocity to his driving, passion-filled songs, and the <strong>Rumour<\/strong> was a tightly knit and phenomenally skilled ensemble.\u00a0 Lyrically, Parker fit us like a glove with his sarcasm and vitriol, not to mention his confessional ballads.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Parker and the band broke up in 1981 after putting out their mostly highly-regarded album, <strong>Squeezing Out Sparks<\/strong>.\u00a0 And unfortunately for Parker, the incomparably talented <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong> came along in 1977 in a similar vein and eventually eclipsed Parker (who continued to record without the band in the &#8217;90s).\u00a0 Parker &amp; the Rumour are still held in high regard, however, and championed by many (see below) as one of the best bands ever.<\/p>\n<p>Now Parker and the band have unexpectedly reunited (including <strong>Brinsley Schwarz<\/strong>) and recorded a great new album entitled <strong>Three Chords Good<\/strong>.\u00a0 The reunion album was released in November in advance of <strong>Judd Apatow&#8217;s This Is Forty<\/strong> movie, in which Graham Parker &amp; the Rumour provide a plot point.\u00a0 As a result of the push by their fan<strong> Apatow<\/strong>, Parker and band have made it into the mainstream spotlight for the first time in decades.\u00a0 Watch them below on Conan last night performing a beauty (<em><strong>Long Emotional Ride<\/strong><\/em>) off their brand new album <strong>Three Chords Good<\/strong>.\u00a0 After, check out a relic from &#8217;77.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NtVKd7wz0Uk&#038;feature=em-uploademail<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FOOLS GOLD - GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR (BBC Live 1977)\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJRosJqpoog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the desperate-for-rock, pre-punk days of 1976 we played Graham Parker &amp; the Rumour&#8217;s Howling Wind and Heat Treatment (both produced by Nick Lowe) albums to death.\u00a0 Sounding like a mix of Jagger and Van Morrison, Graham Parker brought a powerful grit and ferocity to his driving, passion-filled songs, and the Rumour was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}