Biography

Nick Lowe holds a unique position in British pop history, being a key architect in punk and pub-rock as well as power pop. In fact, he started out in the 1960s as a member of little-known psych-pop band Kippington Lodge. Eventually that group evolved into Brinsley Schwarz (named for their guitarist), who were perhaps the most important band in pub-rock, an early-'70s U.K. style of American-influenced roots-rock. When those influenced by pub-rock kick-started the punk movement in the late '70s, Lowe was in the vanguard once more, this time as a solo artist turning out snappy New Wave pop. In 1980 he teamed with Dave Edmunds for one album as Rockpile, but soon resumed his solo work, which by the '90s had turned rootsier and more introspective, but no less rewarding.

Top Tracks

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• (i Want To Build A) Jumbo Ark

• (you're My) Wildest Dream

• 36 Inches High

• 7 Nights To Rock

• All Men Are Liars

• American Squirm

• Baby It's You

• Born A Woman

• Born Fighter

• Burning

• Checkout Time

• Cold Grey Light Of Dawn

• Cracking Up

• Cruel To Be Kind

• Crying In My Sleep

• Dose Of You

• Faithless Lover

• Fool Too Long

• Half A Boy And Half A Man

• Halfway To Paradise

• Heart

• Heart Of The City

• Homewrecker

• I Got A Job

• I Knew The Bride (when She Used To Rock & Roll)

• I Live On A Battlefield

• I Love My Label

• I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass

• I Read A Lot

• I Trained Her To Love Me

• I'm A Mess

• Lately I've Let Things Slide

• Lonely Just Like Me

• Long Limbed Girl

• Lover Don't Go

• Lovers Jamboree

• Love's Got A Lot To Answer For

• Marie Provost

• My Heart Hurts

• Nutted By Reality

• Raging Eyes

• Rose Of England

• Sensitive Man

• Shelley My Love

• So It Goes

• Somebody Cares For Me

• Soulful Wind

• Switchboard Susan

• The Beast In Me

• Time Wounds All Heels

• True Love Travels On A Gravel Road

• We Want Action

• What's Shakin' On The Hill

• When I Write The Book

• You Got The Look I Like

• You Inspire Me

Discography

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• The Old Magic

  Yep Roc

  2011

• At My Age

  Yep Roc

  2007

• Untouched Takeaway

  Yep Roc

  2004

• The Convincer

  Yep Roc

  2001

• Dig My Mood

  Upstart

  1998

• The Impossible Bird

  Upstart

  1994

• Party of One

  Upstart

  1990

• Pinker and Prouder Than Previous

  Demon Duplicate (UK) / Demon

  1988

• The Abominable Showman

  Demon

  1983

• Nick the Knife

  Columbia

  1982

• Labour of Lust

  Yep Roc

  1979

• Jesus of Cool

  Demon Records

  1978

• Pure Pop for Now People

  Columbia

  1978