I Knew the Bride

"I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)" is a song written by Nick Lowe and first popularised by Dave Edmunds.

Edmunds recalled, "Nick came up with 'I Knew The Bride', which was just perfect for me, and we wrote a couple of other things together.

I remember 'I Knew The Bride' was written really quickly, it seemed like Nick had knocked out this brilliant, fully-formed rock 'n' roll song in about half an hour.

"[1] Lowe performed the song during a Stiff Records European tour with Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, and Larry Wallis; the tour was filmed for the 1981 documentary If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth a Fuck.

[9] Of Lowe's album version, Spin said, "Backed by Huey Lewis's the News, it lacks the kick of either Edmunds’s or Rockpile’s version but affords Lowe a chance to redo one of his best songs with a popular American backing group and again test chart waters.