My friend Andrew Bodnar, who has died aged 71, was bass guitarist with Graham Parker & the Rumour.
One of the best British bassists of his generation, with a finely honed ability to play exactly what a song required and then embellish as the feeling took him, he also had a life outside the Rumour, playing the bass lines on Elvis Costello’s Watching the Detectives (1977) and Nick Lowe’s I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass (1978), while also touring with Thompson Twins.
