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Nick Lowe has led multiple musical lives, becoming a pillar of pub rock, punk, New Wave, and roots rock over the course of a long, prolific career. Born in Surrey in 1949, he started out in the â60s with psych-poppers Kippington Lodge before becoming bassist and singer for pub-rock pioneers Brinsley Schwarz, who brought a British perspective to their earthy American influences. As a producer, he was in on the ground floor of the UKâs punk/New Wave movement, overseeing the first British punk single (The Damnedâs âNew Roseâ) and the first five Elvis Costello albumsâhis cover of Brinsley Schwarzâs Lowe-penned â(Whatâs So Funny âBout) Peace, Love and Understandingâ made the tune famous. Lowe kicked off his solo career in 1976 with the hooky, rocking single âSo It Goesâ; his 1979 hit âCruel to Be Kindâ briefly made him a transatlantic pop star. But Lowe was ultimately destined for cult-hero status. Over the years, his sound gradually grew rootsier and quieter, and by the turn of the century heâd reinvented himself as a cool, somewhat retro-slanted balladeer on classy, expertly crafted albums like Dig My Mood.
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