Nick Lowe knows something about the fickleness of fame.
Back in 1970, his then-band, Brinsley Schwarz, was scheduled to make a big splash at a New York concert arranged by the group's manager. But the British journalists flown in by the label were late and inebriated, trashed the concert, and Brinsley Schwarz retreated to England.
At the end of the decade, Lowe -- by then a producer or sideman for a host of punk/New Wave acts -- had his own Top 40 hit, "Cruel to Be Kind." But the hits didn't keep on comin', and Lowe spent the '80s trying to find his place in a changing pop world. 
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