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Instruments
  
Bass

Name
  
Andrew Bodnar

Years active
  
1970s–present

Role
  
Film actor

Associated acts
  
The Rumour

Movies
  
This Is 40

Website
  
grahamparker.net


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Genres
  
Rock, new wave, pub rock, soul, rhythm and blues

Music groups
  
The Rumour, Graham Parker & The Rumour

Albums
  
Squeezing Out Sparks, Three Chords Good, Stick to Me, The Parkerilla, The Up Escalator

Andrew Bodnar is an English bass player, best known for his membership with Graham Parker and The Rumour in the late 1970s, and for playing the distinctive reggae-flavored bassline on "Watching the Detectives" by Elvis Costello. He also played with Graham Parker on his solo albums from 1988 through the mid-1990s. Graham Parker and the Rumour reunited in 2011 to record a new album and tour. Bodnar was Thompson Twins touring bassist throughout the early 1980s.

Contents

Bodnar played himself in the Judd Apatow film, This Is 40, released in December 2012.

Graham Parker and the Rumour

  • Howlin' Wind (1976)
  • Heat Treatment (1976)
  • Stick to Me (1977)
  • The Parkerilla (1978)
  • Squeezing Out Sparks (1979)
  • The Up Escalator (1980)
  • Three Chords Good (2012)

    • The Rumour

  • Max (1977)
  • Frogs Sprouts Clogs And Krauts (1978)
  • Purity Of Essence (1980)

    • Graham Parker

  • The Mona Lisa's Sister (1988)
  • Human Soul (1989)
  • Struck By Lightning (1991)
  • Burning Questions (1992)
  • Acid Bubblegum (1996)

    • Other artists

  • Ernie Graham - Ernie Graham (1971)
  • Renowned - Gay & Terry Woods (1976)
  • "Watching the Detectives" - Elvis Costello (single, 1977)
  • Carlene Carter - Carlene Carter (1978)
  • Jesus of Cool - Nick Lowe (1978) (he co-wrote "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass")
  • Rock 'n' Roll Adult - Garland Jeffreys (1981)
  • Learning to Crawl - the Pretenders (1984)
  • The Rose of England - Nick Lowe (1985)

    • References

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