Graham Parker is best known a popular rock performer in the United Kingdom who has a unique working man persona and a unique stage presence. His style influenced other rock artists including Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and Paul Weller. Parker's concerts are very popular, but his record sales have had more limited success.
Pop musicians are too full of themselves to act properly. It's all preening and posturing for us. We mug, we mime, we throw shapes, we pose, we do weird things with our eyeballs, but we can't act. I think deep down many musicians, myself included, consider acting and filmmaking a much higher art form, and we wish we were actors. We spend too much time in music trying to manipulate people's emotions in under ten seconds. It's excessively phony.
