Robyn Raymond Hitchcock (born 3rd March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and psych folk guitarist While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar Many of Hitchcock's album covers bear his paintings or drawings, and his albums' liner notes sometimes include a printed short story His live concerts usually include a considerable amount of story-telling, imaginative and surreal ad-libbed monologues in his lyrical style He is the son of novelist Raymond Hitchcock and the brother of artist Lal HitchcockHe regularly does solo work, and returns again and again to bands he has formed like The Soft Boys and The Egyptians Hitchcock is an avid and able collaborator with people like director Jonathan Demme, actor Alan Rickman, country/folk duo (and longtime Hitchcock fans) Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, The Venus 3, REM's Peter Buck, Young Fresh Fellows' frontman Scott McCaughey, Andy Partridge of XTC, Nick Lowe, former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, Jon Brion, and Grant-Lee Phillips, as well as Ministry's Bill Rieflin
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