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Graham Parker
Aug 23, 2012 Updated Aug 24, 2012

Veteran UK rocker Graham Parker has reunited with his original band The Rumour for their first record in more than 30 years.

From their pub-rock roots in the mid 70s, the band had a string of successful albums including Howlin' Wind, Heat Treatment and Squeezing Out Sparks before calling it quits in 1980.

The new record, Three Chords Good, is due for release on November 30...check out a preview of the track 'Coathangers' here.

Source: Rolling Stone external link

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The Rumour were a British rock band in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are best known as the backup band for Graham Parker, whose early records (from 1976 to 1980) were credited to Graham Parker & The Rumour. However, The Rumour were also recording artists in their own right, releasing three albums: Max (1977), Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs And Krauts (1979), and Purity of Essence (1980).

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