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Parker and Rumour
* Steve Goulding ( formerly of Graham Parker & the Rumour and later of the Mekons )-drums ( 1982 – 1983 )
Schwarz and Andrews joined Graham Parker & the Rumour ; later Andrews moved to New Orleans.
Brinsley Schwarz and Martin Belmont joined Brinsley's former keyboard player Bob Andrews to support Graham Parker as Graham Parker & the Rumour, as well as appearing without Parker, as " The Rumour ".
Ironically, the first album, Ducks Deluxe, achieved moderate commercial success after the band broke up, because the members had gone on to greater fame in Graham Parker & the Rumour, The Tyla Gang and The Motors.
Bob Dylan headlined, with support from Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading, Graham Parker and the Rumour, Lake, and Merger.
Graham Parker ( born 15 November 1950, London, England ) is a British rock singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.
In 1975, he recorded a few demo tracks in London with Dave Robinson, who would shortly found Stiff Records and who connected Parker with his first backing band of note, The Rumour.
In the summer of 1975, Parker joined forces with ex-members of three British pub-rock bands to form Graham Parker and the Rumour.
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 UK hit in March 1977.
Parker and the Rumour gained a following in Australia thanks to the support of Sydney independent rock station Double Jay ( 2JJ ) and the ABC's weekly pop TV show Countdown, which gave the group nationwide exposure in Australia.
They made their first tour there in 1978, where they spotted rising Australian band The Sports, who subsequently supported Parker and the Rumour on their early 1979 UK tour.
An official Graham Parker and The Rumour live album, The Parkerilla, issued in 1978, saw Parker in a creative holding pattern.
Significantly, the front cover of the album credited only Graham Parker, not " Graham Parker and The Rumour ".
The Up Escalator would prove to be Parker's last album with the Rumour, although guitarist Brinsley Schwarz would reunite with Parker in 1983 and play on most of the singer's albums through the decade's end.

Parker and built
* Parker Morris Standards become mandatory for all housing built in New Towns in the UK.
The Civilian Conservation Corps built Fort Parker State Recreation Area.
In August 2001, Mayor Grady Parker announced that the new facility would be located adjacent to Orr Park where it was subsequently built.
Of these eight structures, only the one on the west side of Novelty Lane and the one on the east corner of Parker Lane were not built by this family.
144-Ford Ave. built by Greg Parker and includes a deli, upscale clothing consignment shop, palmer chiropractic, karate studio, and a dentist.
The first two houses in Clayton were built by Thomas Potts and Lewis T. Pounds, and Parker & Foote was the first store.
Raymond built a general supply store on the south side of the railroad tracks, which was later occupied by C. C. Parker & Co.
Parker also was among a group of Verndale business men who attempted to get a railroad built between Verndale and Shell City.
The Parker Homestead, one of the oldest buildings in state, was built by early settlers to the region.
The Parker House was built around 1906 by Luther Parker, a local doctor, and is now a bed and breakfast.
Corinth Presbyterian Church was founded in Parker in 1846, with the current sanctuary built in 1923, and is thought to be the oldest continuing congregation in Collin County.
The bridge was built in 1924 and is one of the last surviving examples of a rigid Parker through truss bridge in the state of Utah.
Victorian historians such as George Clark and John Parker concluded that British castles had been built for the purposes of military defence, but believed that their history was pre-Conquest – concluding that the mottes across the countryside had been built by either the Romans or Celts.
The first vehicle powered by wood gas was built by Thomas Hugh Parker in 1901.
The Parker Morris standard was abolished for those that were built, resulting in smaller room sizes and fewer facilities.
However it is widely felt that most public and private sector housing being built today fails to meet the Parker Morris standards for floor and storage space, and this led to a decision in 2008 by the former government agency English Partnerships to re-introduce minimum standards that are 10 % more generous than those of Parker Morris for developments on its own land.
The Parker Tavern, built 1694, is the oldest surviving building in Reading.
* The Parker Tavern-The town's oldest remaining 17th Century structure, built in 1694.
New Court was built to symbolise the harmony between the mind, body and soul with the Parker Library on the right representing the mind, the Hall and kitchens on the left representing the body and the Chapel in the centre representing the soul.
Rockside was built circa 1860, but extended significantly by the firm of architects Parker and Unwin between 1901 and 1905, The building was also extended later in 1923 and 1928.
SS Elingamite was a single screw passenger steamer of 2585 tons, built in 1887 and owned by Huddart Parker.
John Parker built on Archer and Mouzelis's support for dualism to propose a theoretical reclamation of historical sociology and macro-structures using concrete historical cases, claiming that dualism better explained the dynamics of social structures.

Parker and reputation
Though the book's reputation will dim in later years, Dorothy Parker will recall that it was regarded as an innovative work when it first appeared.
Like her " Ultimate Comics " incarnation she is a childhood friend / best friend of Peter Parker aka Spider-Man, and like later appearances of this version she shows an interest in journalism ( though one of her main targets for this job is to reform Daily Bugle Communications from the inside and rehabilitate Spider-Man's reputation, which is attacked by J. Jonah Jameson on a daily basis ).
* 1927: Parker's reputation for producing reliable, high pressure connections leads aviator Charles Lindbergh to specify Parker fittings for the Spirit of St. Louis ' historic first Atlantic crossing.
Over the years, Redding had developed a reputation as a skilled advocate for racial equality, most notably in Parker v. University of Delaware, 75 A. 2d 225 ( Del.
Parker earned his nickname, " The Sheriff ", from his reputation as a feared fighter and enforcer.
RCA was eager for Presley to record in Germany, but Parker insisted that it would ruin his reputation as a regular soldier if he was able to go into a recording studio and sing.
Tommy Moeller, then in his last year at school, had a reputation as a singer when Meikle and Parker asked him, and Peter Moules, who was also at school with Moeller, to join what became a vocal harmony group called Unit 4.
In the episode's commentary, Trey Parker and Matt Stone admitted that they loved Chipotle, but found it funnier to use a restaurant with a healthy reputation rather than a place like McDonald's or Taco Bell.
In the revolutionary years from 1845 to 1850 young Parker as a local preacher and temperance orator gained a reputation for vigorous utterance.

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