Dave Edmunds (Cardiff (Wales), april 15, 1944) is an American rock guitarist, singer and producer who is very influenced by the rock-'n-roll-music from the 1950s and the late 1970s had. Edmunds has for the first time in the late 1960s as a member of success as a musician Love Sculpture, a band that rock songs made of classical pieces. After the breakup of that band, he has had a solo hit with I Hear You Knocking", a song by Smiley Lewis. Also he goes to work as a producer of, among other things, The Flamin' Groovies and Brinsley Schwarz. At that last band he meets Nick Lowe with whom Edmunds in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a time would work together. It works under the name Rockpile but by contractual problems appear the plates under Edmunds ' name.