Song · Dave Edmunds
“I Knew The Bride” by Dave Edmunds
From the album Get It (1977)
“I Knew The Bride” by Dave Edmunds appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1977. It was first released in 1977 on the album Get It. Its best result is #45 on the John Peel's Forgotten Fifty of 1977. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #45 alternative song of 1977 and #45 of the '70s.
Dave Edmunds didn't trust his own songwriting, so he turned to Nick Lowe for help, and Lowe came back with "I Knew the Bride", which Edmunds put on his 1977 album Get It. The song's full name adds "(When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)", and Edmunds said it suited him perfectly; by his account Lowe knocked out the whole thing in about half an hour.
Edmunds never let it go. He cut it live on I Hear You Rockin' in 1987, on Live and Pickin' in 2005 and on A Pile of Rock Live in 2011, remixed the studio take for Hand Picked Musical Fantasies in 1999, and kept it on his best-ofs from 1981 onward. Rockpile, his band with Lowe, Billy Bremner and Terry Williams, played it too, the two singers harmonizing, as heard on Live at Montreux 1980, officially released in 2011.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 45 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Forgotten Fifty of 1977 | 61 |
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