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Dave Edmunds is a singer and songwriter hailing from Cardiff, Wales who was born on April 15th 1944. Since his debut in 1968 he has become one of the most influential pub-rock musicians of all time, with several hits all throughout the late 70’s and early 80’s.

Like many teenagers of the 1960’s, Dave Edmunds fell in love with the blues and early rock and roll singles that record shops of the time were importing from across the Atlantic. Inspired by them to take up playing guitar, he spent most of the decade searching for success in a number of different bands. For a long time he was one of the decade’s nearly men, playing in bands who’d sign to labels like Parlophone and Columbia but wider success remained elusive before forming Love Sculpture in 1966. “Sabre Dance”, their debut single, raced into the charts at number five and was championed by Radio 1 icon John Peel, who played it twice in a row on the radio show “Top Gear”. The band struggled for further success and split in 1970, and Edmunds would find far greater success in his solo career.

He got off to one hell of a start the same year that Love Sculpture split, scoring the 1970 Christmas number one single with “I Hear You Knocking”, his debut solo effort. It also raced into the U.S Billboard charts at number 4 and went on to sell over three million copies. Edmunds continued to have hits all throughout the early seventies, either by releasing them or by producing them for other artists like The Flamin’ Groovies and Ducks Deluxe. However, Edmunds would again attempt to find genuine success with a band in 1976, when he formed Rockpile with bassist and singer Nick Lowe. Ironically, the band only ended up releasing one album in 1980 because Edmunds and Lowe’s solo successes kept getting in the way, and the band split up the same year that their debut effort “Seconds Of Pleasure” was released.

However, the early 80’s were very kind to Edmunds, who enjoyed success all over the world with his solo albums “Twangin’” and “Information”. Ever since then he’s remained an unmissable live act with a back catalogue that most artists of his generation would kill for, for that, he comes highly recommended.

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Where is that nice bloke, Dave Edmunds ? Has he stopped touring ? Even after 'Again', still nothing from Dai Bach, look you, is-nit! No promo tour either. If you see him walking his Border Collie dogs around 'Rockfield' in Monmouth, or in his local pub [where he tries out the odd discreet tune] buy him a pint of 'Brains' and get him to put out an a.p.b. Followers are still interested. There are enough followers to still fill out theatres here in Perth, Oz. Ex resident [child] of Cardiff Bay ['Tiger'] moved to London, 1950s, emigrated to Oz, 2001. Steve Davies. Oz.

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David William Edmunds (born 15 April 1944) is a Welsh singer, guitarist, actor and record producer. Although he is mainly associated with pub rock and new wave, having many hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.

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Singer and producer Dave Edmunds was born in Cardiff, Wales, on April 15, 1944, making him 80 today. Edmunds has released more than a dozen albums under his own name, and had his biggest solo hit with his version of Dave Bartholomew’s “I Hear You Knocking” in 1970. Edmunds was also the frontman for power pop group Rockpile — also featuring Nick Lowe on bass — who were active sporadically between the mid-’70s to the early ‘80s. Edmunds has also played with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band and Stray Cats.

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Dave Edmunds in a 1982 Columbia Records publicity photo (Lynn Goldsmith)

One of the unsung greats –  Dave Edmunds – will be making an increasingly rare concert appearance later this summer when he performs at the  Great British R&B Festival on August 26. The Welsh singer and guitarist, now 72, revealed the news on his  Facebook page , which appears to be his only social media touchpoint as he doesn’t have a website. A quick glance at his concert history on his  Setlist.fm page shows four performances in 2015, three in 2014, five in 2013 and no others since 2009. The vast majority of those appearances were in Sweden.

Edmunds’ music is often based on 1950s rockabilly style. He famously teamed with  Nick Lowe to form  Rockpile in 1976 with  Billy Bremner and  Terry Williams . Though they only have one official album – 1980’s  Seconds of Pleasure – in fact, they four released many recordings together. Edmunds was signed to the U.S. on Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song label via Atlantic in the U.S. Lowe was signed to Columbia.

Edmunds’ 1978 album  Tracks on Wax 4 – which featured such songs as “Trouble Boys” and “Deborah” – and Lowe’s 1979  Labour of Lust with the pop hit “Cruel To Be Kind,” were essentially Rockpile albums though credited to the two as solo artists.

Edmunds first made an impact in 1970 with the #1 U.K. (and #4 U.S.) hit “I Hear You Knocking.” He later earned modest Top 40 success with “Slipping Away,” the John Fogerty composition “Almost Saturday Night” and Elvis Costello’s “Girls Talk.”

Edmunds’ last U.S. dates were a handful of shows in 2002 and 2003.  Best Classic Bands ‘ Founder Greg Brodsky saw his May 2002 concert at the now-shuttered Bottom Line Cabaret in New York’s Greenwich Village when it was just Edmunds and his guitar in an intimate setting on a cross-section of material including the standards “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “That’s All Right,” his cover of Graham Parker’s “Crawling From the Wreckage,” and Lowe/Rockpile’s “I Knew the Bride.”

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Edmunds released an instrumental album,  Rags & Classics in 2015 that showcases his beautiful guitar playing on such songs as “Cannonball Rag,” “A Whiter Shade of Pale” and “God Only Knows.”

Let’s hope he enjoys the August festival appearance so much that he organizes a real tour.

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Dave Edmunds: my stories of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon and more

Dave Edmunds travelled on Led Zeppelin's private jet and spent an afternoon with George Harrison playing Beatles dress-up. These are his stories

From his humble beginnings as a mechanic in a Cardiff garage, Dave Edmunds has ploughed a diverse and successful musical furrow. 

From his lightening guitar work on a novel interpretation of Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance (with his trio Love Sculpture back in 1968) to the pure and simple down-home rock’n’roll of I Hear You Knocking or radio-friendly late70s hits like I Knew The Bride, Girls Talk and Crawling From The Wreckage , Edmunds is a musical journeyman who has performed with and is respected by most of the world’s greatest musicians. 

A soft-spoken and humble fellow, here he relates some of his past experiences from his long and eventful musical journey, including having a pint with Jimi Hendrix , knocking back several more with Keith Moon , dressing up with a Beatle, being hailed by the next Messiah by a Beach Boy, and doing a bit of demolition work with John Bonham .

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In about 1968 I had been doing pretty well with a band in Cardiff, and I was a motor mechanic. I decided to hand in my notice and to seek my fame and fortune in London. So I moved up and got a little poky flat somewhere. The places to go then were Giovanni’s in Denmark Street, where all the musos would hang out, and The Ship, a pub in Wardour Street. 

I went to The Ship one night, and it just so happened that Jimi Hendrix was playing at the Marquee down the road. All I knew about him was that I’d heard the record Hey Joe and that there was a buzz going round. So I was in The Ship with a friend from Cardiff, and Jimi walked in with a couple of guys and stood next to me at the bar, and we got talking. 

He asked me if I liked Eric Clapton and I said: “Oh yeah. But I’m into Steve Cropper and the MGs.” Which he seemed quite impressed with because that Stax thing was still a bit underground. We had a pint, and what struck me was that I’d never met anyone so opposite to their image; he was charming, polite and quite a gentleman. And that impression stuck with me. 

When I finally walked out into Wardour Street it was absolutely jam packed, everybody was trying to get into the gig. I heard a rumour that he earned £400 for that show, an outrageous sum of money at the time [laughs].

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I got call from the head of RCA records, which I was signed with at the time, who told me about this guy called David Putnam who was making [the movie] Stardust , a sequel to That’ll Be The Day , and they wanted someone to do the music for it. I sent them a version of an Everly Brothers song and they said: “Right, you’ve got the job.” 

So I went down to Rockfield studios [in Wales] and I was left all on my own to do what I wanted. Then they asked me if I knew any musicians with acting skills, because they didn’t want the band in the film to just be actors. I piped up and offered my services, and I got a job in the film as one of the band members who doesn’t say much. 

Keith Moon was in the band, and that was a riot. I didn’t even drink until I met Keith [laughs], I was just a pot-smoking hippie. So there was me, Karl Howman [actor] and Keith; we became the terrible trio of the film set. I remember one time we were on our way to Manchester to film at the Belvue. We were in Keith’s limo, with me and Karl in the back, and we stopped at a service station somewhere on the M1.

When we arrived there was a bus full of schoolgirls who were getting out and assembling ready to go in and eat. Keith had his driver Eddie stop the car, then he took all his clothes off, stripped absolutely naked, and ran in among the schoolgirls, around the petrol pumps, back into the car and off we went. Of course, the schoolgirls scattered like pigeons. Keith used to get away with murder, and if you hung out with him long enough you got the impression that you could too. He got a lot of people into trouble because of that.

George Harrison

I used to hang out with George in the mid-80s and I was often up at his place, to keep him company, because he didn’t get out that much. I went up there one time and there was just me and him in the house. He picked up a guitar and started playing some Beatles songs. He sort of looked at me with a sly grin, as if to say: “You know what you’re getting here.” Normally we just talked about anything other than music. Then he said: “Follow me.” 

We got up, went through a corridor, upstairs and got to a huge wardrobe, which he opened and there were a lot of Beatles suits in there: the Shea Stadiums outfits, the silver suits with the black collars; there were also three Sgt Peppers jackets, which we took off and tried on. He laughed and said: “I think I’ve got Paul’s here, but don’t tell him.” 

We spent the afternoon trying on Beatles clothes. I was amazed how small they were, these suits were absolutely tiny. I would say that George Harrison was one of the most interesting people I’ve met, and as a musician he knew what he needed to know about music. Like a lot of us, if you were born between 1939 and 1945 you were privy to things that a lot of people might have missed.

Brian Wilson

I’d produced a band called The Flamin Groovies, and they popped over to see me when I was in LA. I was with the band’s frontman Chris Wilson and guitarist Cyril Jordan one night and they said: “Let’s go to Brian’s house.” I said: “What are you talking about?” And they said: “We know where he lives, and we met him once and he said come over.” And I said: “Oh yeah, sure.” 

So we hopped into a car and drove up to these gates, Cyril jumped out of the car and said: “It’s Dave Edmunds with The Flamin Groovies” [laughs]. And, sure enough, the gates opened and in we went. We were welcomed into the house by Marilyn Wilson and Stan Love – Mike’s brother – who was doing security. Stan came up to us and said: “Look, I don’t know if you’ll get to see Brian, he’s upstairs in his room. But if you do, don’t give him any drugs.” So I said: “Wouldn’t dream of it. Haven’t got any, and wouldn’t anyway. We understand.” 

So we went in. Cyril had a copy of [the soundtrack album] Stardust with him. On it I’d done a real Phil Spector version of Da Doo Ron Ron , the multi-tracking and all that. Cyril put it on the record player. It got to that track, Brian turned up! He came downstairs in his dressing gown, walked into the room; he was huge, about 350 pounds. He said hi and then ignored us. He just walked over to the record player, picked up the needle and put it back on Da Doo Ron Ron . 

As it was playing, he walked in a very characteristic way from one end of the room to the other. He’d walk right up close to the wall until his nose was touching it, turn around, and in military fashion he would walk right across the room to the other wall and then turn round again. He did this pacing backwards and forwards until the record ended, then he would put the track back on and do the same again. He did this about three or four times. Then he came over and said: “That’s God on drums,” and then turned round and walked out of the room. We never saw him again. And by the way, I have to tell that it was me on drums [laughs].

When I was doing the Ringo Starr tour we had a press conference in New York. I had nothing to do that evening. Ringo’s press secretary called me and invited me to see The Band at the Lone Star café in Manhattan, so I went. When we got there she disappeared into the group’s tour bus, which they were using as a dressing room because there was no room in the club. 

When she came out she said: “The boys want to meet you.” And I said: “Oh I don’t want to do that,” because I don’t like people doing that to me. And she said: “No, they insist you go in and say hello.” So I went into the tour bus and talked to Levon [Helm] for a bit, because he’d played with Ringo, and Rick Danko. Rick then disappeared into the back of the bus and came back with two guitars, a Gibson and a Fender, and said: “Which one do you like?” I said: “Personally I use both of them, depending on circumstances.” 

And he put the Gibson around my neck! I said: “What are you doing?” He said: “We’re on now” [laughs].The next thing I know is that we all walked on stage, someone plugged me in and I ended up playing the whole set with them. We did every song, all the ones you know and love. We did them all! I remember walking back to my hotel that night and I couldn’t believe what had just happened. It was The Band; they were as cool as you could get, and they were the royalty of the music business.

Led Zeppelin

Being on Swan Song was great. How it happened was that I had a few hit records with RCA, we had our own Rockfield label, and the deal ran out and I was free. So I was sitting around at the studio recording, and Robert Plant came down to check out the studios. He had a listen to some of my stuff and offered me a deal right there and then. Within a week I was signed to them [Swan Song] and they gave me a cheque for a load of money. And I had the album ready, with no more studio costs, nothing. That’s the way to do deals. 

I went to [Zeppelin manager] Peter Grant and he said: “Alright, Dave, we’ll sign you to the label, but I don’t want to do it with any lawyers. You can trust us. I’ll give you the same deal as Zeppelin’s done with Atlantic.” And that’s what he did! And I recouped on every album. And recoup is good. It was the perfect record deal: I was allowed to do what I wanted. 

I would say that the two best people I’ve worked with in the business are David Putnam and Peter Grant. Two more opposite characters you couldn’t meet, but they were the most honourable people that I’ve ever dealt with in this business. I must admit that I felt like their mascot. They were chuffed to have me and I was chuffed to be with them. They took me on tour with them. They had a jet, and we’d take off standing up with a drink, without wearing seat-belts and all that. 

Robert was my contact, I didn’t really socialise much with the rest of them. Having said that, I was in a limo in New York with Robert and Bonzo once, and Bonzo tore the inside of the limo to pieces for reasons I never understood. It was an interesting experience travelling with them to see what life could be like with the big boys.

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Dave Edmunds Announces His Retirement

Written by: Alex Green

“Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything,” Shakespeare once wrote on the subject of retirement.

Dave Edmunds is about to immerse himself in those trees, brooks and stones, because after a long career in rock and roll, the legendary musician is calling it a day.

Born in Cardiff in 1944, Edmunds joined his first band when he was ten and now, sixty-three years later, he’s played with his last.

Edmunds boasts the kind of musical CV that most musicians would kill to have a small percentage of. He’s played in great bands (Love Sculpture, Rockpile) had huge hits as a solo artist (“Girls Talk” and “I Hear You Knocking”) and produced everyone from Foghat to the Flamin’ Groovies to the Stray Cats. Additionally, he collaborated with an impressive list of luminaries, including Jeff Lynne, Nick Lowe, Ringo Starr, Elvis Costello and Eric Clapton.

“Dave Edmunds is a class act,” SEM’s Matt Sloan once wrote. “He’s pub rock royalty blessed with pop smarts and tremendous musical intuition.”

Although Edmunds has been relatively low-key about his retirement from live performances, his pal Brian Setzer took to social media to write the following note on the subject: “It’s with bittersweet announcement that my good friend and guitar legend Dave Edmunds is retiring after tomorrow night’s show. Dave produced the early Stray Ca ts albums that spawned Runaway Boys, Stray Cat Strut, Rock This Town, (Sexy) & 17, and I Won’t Stand in Your Way. He flew in to Finland to play his final two shows with me. I wish him all the love in the world in his retirement!”

Edmunds, who has only played around twenty shows in the last eight years, has not commented about what his plans exactly are. It appears his retirement certainly will take him off the stage, but no one is sure if he’ll continue to produce or record music on his own.

His last album was the instrumental album Rags & Classics back in 2015.

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• 2016 Aug 26 Aug 29 2016 Colne, The Great British R&B Festival The Great British R&B Festival Bernie Marsden, Dave Edmunds, Nine Below Zero, Chris Powers (1), James Hunter…
• 2015 Aug 21 Aug 23 2015 Remenham (Nr. Henley), Temple Island Meadows Rewind Festival South Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Billy Ocean, Kim Wilde, Slim Jim Phantom, ABC…
• 2015 Aug 07 Aug 09 2015 Macclesfield, Capesthorne Hall Rewind Festival North Human League, Soul II Soul, Kim Wilde, Belinda Carlisle, Howard Jones…
• 2015 Jul 24 Jul 26 2015 Perth, Scone Palace Rewind Festival Scotland Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey, Bananarama, The Orchestra (2), Jimmy Somerville, Howard Jones…
• Dec 19 2009 Utilita Arena Birmingham Jools Holland, Dave Edmunds, Ruby Turner, Louise Marshall
• Nov 20 2009 O2 Apollo Manchester Jools Holland, Ruby Turner, Louise Marshall, Dave Edmunds
• Oct 01 2009 London, Ronnie Scott's Jools Holland, Gilson Lavis, Dave Edmunds, Ruby Turner, Louis Marshall
• Aug 08 2009 Grantham, Belvoir Castle Jools Holland, Dave Edmunds, Jimmy Rankin
• Aug 07 2009 Henley-on-Thames, Stonor House And Gardens Jools Holland, Dave Edmunds, Jimmy Rankin
• Aug 01 2009 Bath, Dyrham Park Jools Holland, Dave Edmunds, Meaghan Smith

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5 Sensational Songs Recorded by Dave Edmunds

D ave Edmunds celebrated his 80th birthday on April 15, 2024. The veteran Welsh roots rocker has had a long solo, successful solo career, and also made an enduring mark as a singer and guitarist in the groups Love Sculpture and Rockpile.

Edmunds occasionally co-wrote original songs, but he’s better known as an interpreter of other artists’ tunes. Some of his covers have been considered by many to be definitive versions of those tunes.

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In honor of Edmunds’ milestone birthday, here’s a look at five outstanding songs he recorded over the years.

“Sabre Dance” – Love Sculpture (1968)

Early in his career, Edmunds fronted the Wales-based blues-rock group Love Sculpture. In 1968, the band scored a novelty hit in the U.K. with a cover of Soviet-Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance,” an instrumental piece that originally was featured in the 1942 ballet Gayane .

Edmunds arranged his band’s version of “Sabre Dance,” and played the blazing electric guitar solo that was the main part of the track. The song peaked at No. 5 on the U.K. singles chart .

Love Sculpture broke up in 1970 after releasing two studio albums.

“I Hear You Knocking” (1970)

Edmunds scored the biggest chart hit of his career in 1970 with his first solo single, “I Hear You Knocking,” a cover of a tune that was a 1955 R&B smash for Smiley Lewis. Fats Domino also released a version of the song in 1961.

Edmunds’ rendition of the grooving blues song topped the U.K. singles chart and also reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. “I Hear You Knocking” also appeared on Edmunds’ first solo album, Rockpile , which was released in 1972.

“Girls Talk” (1979)

Edmunds’ 1979 album, Repeat When Necessary , featured a memorably melodic and rocking rendition of the Elvis Costello song “Girls Talk.” The track reached No. 4 on the U.K. singles chart, and No. 65 on the Hot 100.

At the time Edmunds recorded the album, he was a member of the band Rockpile, along with singer/bassist Nick Lowe , guitarist/singer Billy Bremner, and Terry Williams. Since Edmunds and Lowe were signed to different labels as solo artists then, contractual issues made it unable for them to record an album as Rockpile.

Instead, during the late 1970s, Edmunds and Lowe released a number of solo albums with backing from the other three Rockpile members. Among those albums was Repeat When Necessary .

In 1980, Rockpile released its one and only studio, Seconds of Pleasure . The band broke up in 1981, reportedly over tensions between Edmunds and Lowe, as well as conflicts Edmunds had with the group’s manager, Jake Riviera.

“From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)” (1982)

In 1982, Edmunds recorded an inspired version of the Bruce Springsteen rarity “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come).” The tune was the lead track of D.E. 7th , Edmunds’ seventh solo studio album.

The song reached No. 28 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. In a 1994 interview, Edmunds explained that Springsteen had offered him the song to record after he met the Boss backstage following a Bruce concert at Wembley Stadium in London.

Springsteen’s original version was recorded during the sessions for his 1979 album The River . It eventually was released on a bonus disc of the 2003 compilation The Essential Bruce Springsteen , and as part of the 2015 box set The Ties That Bind: The River Collection .

“Slipping Away” (1983)

“Slipping Away” was Edmunds’ second and last song to reach the Top 40 of the Hot 100, peaking at No. 39. The synth-driven track was written by Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne. It was featured on Edmunds’ 1983 album, Information , which he co-produced with Lynne.

In the aforementioned 1994 interview, Edmunds revealed that he was interested in hiring Phil Collins to produce Information , but Collins’ career had gotten too busy around at that time.

A “Slipping Away” music video featured footage of Edmunds performing the song mixed with film clips of auto races. The video received a decent amount of airplay on MTV.

The post 5 Sensational Songs Recorded by Dave Edmunds appeared first on American Songwriter .

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