Quick Facts

Full Name	Graham Parker
Occupation	Rock Singer
Date Of Birth	Nov 18, 1950(1950-11-18)
Age	74
Birthplace	East London
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Eastern Cape
Horoscope	Scorpio

Graham Parker Biography

Graham Parker is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on November 18, 1950 in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. English musician, best well-known as the frontman for the group Graham Parker & the Rumour. He has released over thirty albums in the band Rumour as well as in his own solo career from the mid-70’s.

The album he released in 1979 “Squeezing Out Sparks” was recorded by a renowned music executive producer His 1979 album “Squeezing Out Sparks” was produced by respected record producer Jack Nitzsche..

Graham Parker (born 18 November 1950, Hackney, East London) is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.

Parker returned to England for a year, living in Chichester in Sussex where he worked at the Chichester Rubber Glove Factory. By 1971, he had left England again and spent time in Paris right at the time of the Free Angela Davis march through the city. From France, Parker hitchhiked through Spain to Morocco, where he traveled around for a year before moving to Gibraltar. In Gibraltar he worked on the docks unloading frozen foods, which he then helped deliver to supermarkets. His guitar playing and writing skills were improving, and after playing songs to a few locals in a bar, he found himself on an afternoon show on Gibraltar television where he performed two or three of his own songs. At that time, a strongly psychedelic influenced band named Pegasus often played in the same bar and asked Parker to join them. With Parker in the band playing a borrowed electric guitar, Pegasus played one show in Gibraltar before going to Tangier, Morocco, where they briefly performed in a nightclub. Parker, however, was growing out of the hippie trappings and decided the band needed to learn a few songs that involved major keys (all the songs they played were in A minor) and so taught the members some of the soul numbers he had loved as a youth, including Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour”. He also tired of the band’s hippie name and renamed them Terry Burbot’s Magic Mud.

He got married to a photographer named Jolie.

Graham Parker Net Worth

Graham Parker is one of the richest Rock Singer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Graham Parker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was employed for the Animal Virus Research Institute as an adult.

He has had commercial success through singles such as 1982’s “Temporary Beauty”, which made it into the Top 50 in the U.K.

Parker was born in Hackney, East London in 1950. He was a pupil at Chobham Secondary Modern School in Surrey. After the arrival of the Beatles, Parker and some other 12/13-year olds formed the Deepcut Three, soon renamed the Black Rockers. None of the members actually learned to play their instruments, however, and were merely dress-up bands, adopting Beatle haircuts, black jeans and polo neck sweaters. By the time Parker was 15 he was a fan of soul music, especially Otis Redding, and would go to dance clubs in the nearby towns of Woking and Camberley where there was a thriving appreciation of soul music, Motown and ska. Parker left school at 16 and went to work at the Animal Virus Research Institute in Pirbright, Surrey, where he bred animals for foot-and- mouth disease research. At 18 he left the job and moved to Guernsey in the Channel Islands where he took a variety of jobs, picking tomatoes, digging ditches, collecting money from pinball machines, and working in a bakery. In Guernsey he bought an acoustic guitar and began to learn fingerpicking style and began writing songs with lyrics heavily influenced by the psychedelic music of the time.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Graham Parker Dating?

According to our records, Graham Parker married to Jolie Parker. As of December 1, 2023, Graham Parker’s is not dating anyone.

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Graham Parker and the Rumour appeared on BBC television’s Top of the Pops in 1977, performing their version of The Trammps’ “Hold Back the Night” from The Pink Parker EP, a Top 30 hit in the UK Singles Chart in March 1977. At this point, Parker began to change his songwriting style, hoping to break into the American market. The first fruits of this new direction appeared on Stick To Me (1977), which broke the Top 20 on the UK Albums Chart.

Facts & Trivia

Graham Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Graham Parker celebrates birthday on November 18 of every year.

An official Graham Parker and The Rumour live album, The Parkerilla, issued in 1978, had nothing new: three sides were live, with versions of previously released songs; the fourth was devoted to a “disco” remake of “Hey Lord, Don’t Ask Me Questions”. The Parkerilla satisfied his contractual obligation to Mercury Records, freeing him to sign with Arista. Parker had long been dissatisfied with the performance of Mercury Records, finally issuing in 1979 as a single B-side “Mercury Poisoning” a song that directly attacked it. The flip side of the single was a cover of the Jackson Five song “I Want You Back (Alive).”

What was Graham Parker biggest hit?

1 – Local Girls. Our choice for the number one spot on this top 10

Graham Parker songs list is Graham Parker’s big hit from 1977 entitled Local Girls. “Local Girls,” was released on Graham Parker and the Rumour’s grand album entitled Squeezing Out Sparks.

Who plays Graham Parker in this is 40?

The actors who portray the two guys who run the indie label in “This is 40,” Paul Rudd and Chris O’Dowd, were in attendance and got a different view of the reaction Parker receives in the film. Parker’s audience, many of them as gray and bald as the band itself, remains fervidly passionate.

How old is Graham Parker?

71 years (November 18, 1950)

How much is Graeme Parker worth?

Net Worth:$5 Million
Date of Birth:| Nov 18, 1950 (71 years old)
Gender:| Male
Profession:| Singer, Writer, Songwriter, Musician
Nationality:| England

Is Graham Parker still alive?

Graham Parker
Occupation(s)| Singer, songwriter, musician, writer
Instrument(s)| Vocals, guitar
Years active| 1970s–present