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Personnel: Graham Parker (vocals, guitar); Brinsley Schwarz (guitar); Sarah Larson (violin); Mel Collins (saxophone); George Small (keyboards); Kevin Jenkins (bass); Gilson Lavis (drums); Morris Pert (percussion); Andy Ebsworth (programming).
Primarily recorded at Ramport Studios, London, England. Includes liner notes by Graham Parker.
"I Want You Back" was recorded with The Rumour in 1979.
Personnel: Graham Parker (vocals, guitar); Brinsley Schwarz (guitar); Sarah Larson (violin); Mel Collins (saxophone); George Small (keyboards); Kevin Jenkins (bass guitar); Gilson Lavis (drums); Morris Pert (percussion); Andy Ebsworth (programming).
Recording information: 1983.
Like many of his efforts, 1983's THE REAL MACAW brought only marginal commercial success to Graham Parker. After being heralded as rock's great white hope three years earlier, this disappointment was certainly a bitter pill to swallow.
He swipes, jabs, and outright lunges while spitting it all out like a man refusing defeat. The menace in "Sounds Like Chains" is not mere posturing. Parker does indeed want to bite the hand that supposedly feeds him and he's not afraid to name names, which he does in "Passive Resistance." The song, a bold strike against restrictive radio programmers, is probably not the most ingenious career move Parker ever made, but it's one of the most nervy. Razor & Tie's reissue includes the previously unavailable cover of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back," which in Parker's hands sounds more like a gang fight than a love song.
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