GRAHAM PARKER
Ultimate Collection Vol 1 1977-78 PAL 119 mins
Hold Back The Night (TOTP) 10/03/77 4m EX VHS
Hold Back The Night (TOTP) 24/03/77 3m EX VHS
Sight & Sound In Concert, Hiipodrome, Golders Green 17/03/77 40m EX VHS
White Honey - Dalymont Stadium, Dublin (Dubbed Super8) 21/08/77 6m EX VHS
New York Shuffle / Hold Back The Night (Live Promo) 1977 6m EX VHS
New York Shuffle (TOTP) 08/12/77 4m EX VHS
New York Shuffle (Top Pop) 24/12/77 4m EX VHS
Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions (Yuroma Hit Studio, Tokyo) 1978 3m EX VHS
Live - Young Music Show - NHK Hall, Tokyo 18/01/78 40m EX VHS
Back To Schooldays / Watch The Moon Come Down (Rockpalast WDR Studio L, Cologne) 23/01/78 9m EX VHS
Great collection from low gen VHS
Rockpalast NTSC 120 mins
Live - Sight & Sound In Concert 17/03/77 40m EX VHS
Live - Grugahalle Essen 19/10/1980 80m EX VHS
-Rockpalast- 1.Stupefaction / 2.No Holding Back / 3.Jolie,Jolie / 4.Love Without Greed / 5.Discovering Japan / 6.Passion Is No Ordinary Word / 7.Howlin Wild / 8.Thunder And Rain / 9.Manouvers / 10.Dont Get Exited / 11.Beating Of Another Heart / 12.Empty Lives / 13.Devils Sidewalk / 14.Endless Night / 15.Cant Get No Protection / 16.Nobody Hurts You / 17.Hey Lord Dont Ask Me Questions / 18.Tripe Face Boogie / 19.Soul Shoes
Sight & Sound PAL 60 mins
Live - Sight & Sound, Golders Green Hippodrome, London 17/03/77 60m M DVD
Digital Rebroadcast 2013
Soundstage PAL 63 mins
Live - Soundstage, North Shore Hilton Studio, Chicago 1978 30m EX- VHS
Live - Young Music Show, NHK Hall, Tokyo 18/01/78 33m EX- VHS
From low gen VHS
Ultimate Collection Vol 2 1978-86 PAL 123 mins
Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions (OGWT) 21/03/78 5m EX VHS
Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions (BBC TV Studios) 1978 4m EX VHS
Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions (Whitla Hall Belfast) - Dubbed Super8 02/04/78 5m EX VHS
Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions (TOTP) 20/04/78 4m EX VHS
Live - Soundstage, North Shore Studio, Chicago 78 30m EX VHS
Protection (Promo) 1978 4m EX VHS
Heat Treatment / Soul Shoes (Whitla Hall Belfast) - Dubbed Super8 02/04/78 7m EX VHS
Stupefaction / Empty Lives (Fridays Live) 27/06/80 9m EX VHS
Discovering Japan / Howlin' Wind/Nobody Hurts You (Rockpalast Grugahalle) 18/10/80 20m EX VHS
Spoonful (as guest of Jack Bruce) (Rockpalast Grugahalle) 18/10/80 10m EX VHS
Temporary Beauty (Promo) 1980 4m EX VHS
Jolie Jolie / Fear Not / Dark Side Of The Bight Lights (Park West Chicago) 11/07/82 13m EX VHS
Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City / You Hit The Spot (Dinkelsbuhl Festival) 06/07/86 8m EX VHS
Great collection from Low gen VHS
Alexandria PAL 107 mins
Live - Birchmere Music Hall, Alexandria 27/11/12 107m M Private
Great private video shot deom the left hand side, with nice clea view and great close ups
Fool's Gold / Stop Cryin' About The Rain / Nothin's Gonna Pull It Apart / Three Chords Good / Get Started / Start A Fire / Watch The Moon Come Down / Old Soul / Hotel Chambermaid / Live In Shadows / A Lie Gets Halfway Round The World / Long Emotional Ride / Coathangers / Discovering Japan / Nobody Hurts You / Protection / Stupefaction / Thunder & Rain / Local Girls / That Moon Was Low / Band Intro's / Passion Is No Ordinary Word / Don't Ask Me Questions / Soul Shoes
Don't Ask Me Questions PAL 95 mins
Live - Don't Ask Me Questions (BBC4 Doc) 15/03/13 95m M DVD
Before there was punk, before there was new wave and before there was Elvis Costello, there was Graham Parker and his incendiary band the Rumour, rooted in traditional r 'n' b and rock 'n' roll forms but with a vitriolic lyrical edge that demanded to be heard.
Forming the Rumour in 1975, Parker came from Camberley where, amongst many other things, he'd been a petrol pump attendant. The Rumour included many of the cream of the pub rock scene including guitarists Brinsley Schwarz and Martin Belmont, formerly of Ducks DeLuxe. Deemed too edgy for the mid 1970s music scene and too traditional for the ensuing punk wave that they helped spark, they were a band born out of time. After five years of international critical acclaim but moderate sales, the band broke up.
In the intervening years Parker transformed as an artist into a kind of troubadour based in upstate New York, playing to his base of cult fans and having the occasional brush with success. The other members lived their lives in quiet contentment, but always wondering how their lives may have unfolded if they had shared the success of artists who were inspired by them and eventually eclipsed them.
In the summer of 2011, on a whim, they reunited to record an album of new Graham Parker songs. In the same summer, as fate would have it, long-time Graham Parker and the Rumour fan, director Judd Apatow cast the band to play themselves in his film This is Forty. The reunion and high level of exposure caused the band, now all in their sixties, to assess their lives, the notion of success and the meaning of true happiness.
This film, ten years in the making, documents these events and offers a heartfelt look at the lives of all the members focusing on the elusive recluse lead singer and songwriter Graham Parker. Contributions come from the Rumour, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Lowe and, of course, Parker himself.

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