Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English musician. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar. After leading the Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing the influential Underwater Moonlight with them in June 1980, Hitchcock launched a prolific solo career. Hitchcock's earliest lyrics mined a rich vein of English surrealist comic tradition and tended to depict a particular type of eccentric and sardonic English worldview. His music and performance style was influenced by Bob Dylan, and by the English folk music revival of the 1960s and early 1970s. This was soon filtered through a then-unfashionable psychedelic rock lens during the punk rock and new wave music eras of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This combination of musical styles won Hitchcock's band of the time, The Soft Boys, an enthusiastic if small fanbase. However, the Soft Boys' final album together, Underwater Moonlight, posthumously earned them a glowing reputation (particularly in America) as a major influence on bands like R.E.M. After finding a measure of success in the latter 1980s in America, Hitchcock's lyrical and musical horizons broadened further to encompass a range of approaches while still retaining a recognisably surreal, but more serious, signature style. He has recorded for two major American labels (A&M Records, then Warner Bros.) over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, and was the subject of a live performance/documentary film (Storefront Hitchcock) by major motion picture director Jonathan Demme in 1998. Since the turn of the millennium he has also finally received belated critical recognition in his home country. Despite this, mainstream success remains limited. He continues to tour and record prolifically and has earned strong critical reviews over a steady stream of album releases and live performances, and a dedicated "cult following" for his unique body of work.

1967: Vacations in the Past - 2024-09-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Life After Infinity - 2023-04-23T00:00:00.000000Z

SHUFFLEMANIA! - 2022-10-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Robyn Hitchcock - 2017-04-21T00:00:00.000000Z

The Man Upstairs - 2014-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Love From London - 2013-03-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Chronolology: The Very Best of Robyn Hitchcock - 2011-08-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Tromsø, Kaptein - 2011-05-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Mossy Liquor: Outtakes And Prototypes - 2005-08-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Storefront Hitchcock: Music From The Jonathan Demme Picture - 2005-08-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Spooked - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Luxor - 2003-03-01T00:00:00.000000Z

A Star For Bram - 2003-02-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Robyn Sings - 2002-11-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Jewels For Sophia - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Moss Elixir - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Eye - 1990-03-12T00:00:00.000000Z

I Often Dream of Trains - 1984-09-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Groovy Decay - 1982-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Black Snake Diamond Röle - 1981-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z

My Dead Astronaut - 2026-04-27T00:00:00.000000Z

I Am This Thing (Radio Edit) - 2026-03-27T00:00:00.000000Z

See Emily Play - 2024-08-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Itchycoo Park - 2024-07-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Arms of Love - 2024-04-26T00:00:00.000000Z