Peter Murphy (musician)

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Peter Murphy (2006)

Peter John Joseph Murphy (born July 11, 1957 near Northampton , England ) is a British musician who gained international fame as the front man of the Bauhaus band . Due to his early involvement in the Gothic Rock music genre , he is nicknamed "Godfather of Goth".

biography

Peter Murphy was born the youngest of nine children. His parents came from the working class and raised their children strictly Catholic.

From 1978 to 1983 Peter Murphy was a singer in the Bauhaus group . After the band split up in 1983, he founded the group Dalis Car with Mick Karn , but they only released one album called The Waking Hour .

In 1984, Dalis Car split, after which Peter Murphy began a solo career. Two years later his first album ( Should the World Fail to Fall Apart ) was released, on which the former Bauhaus member Daniel Ash also participated.

It wasn't until 1990 that he had a hit with the song Cuts You Up , which was recorded on the album Deep . This song became the "American Modern Rock Hit of the Year" and stayed at the top of the US charts for seven weeks. The LP itself reached number 44 in the album charts. However, Peter Murphy could not repeat this success immediately, the follow-up album Holy Smoke only made it to number 108.

In the 1980s, Murphy converted to Islam , where he was very much influenced by Sufism (Islamic mysticism ). Since 1992 he has lived with his wife Beyhan (née Faulkes, founder and director of “ Modern Dance Turkey ”) and their children Hurihan (* 1988) and Adem (* 1991) in Ankara ( Turkey ). Among other things, he worked there with the musician Mercan Dede , who makes a kind of modern Sufi music.

Peter Murphy's distinctive facial features - mainly the high cheekbones - and his exaggerated facial expressions and gestures during early Bauhaus concerts served James O'Barr as a template for his cartoon character Eric Draven ( The Crow ).

In 2011 the solo and Bauhaus fanatics came out with the comeback Ninth . Critics celebrated the album unanimously. Ulf Kubanke from Laut.de classified the CD as “a real bridge album; Gothic Rock as a congenial partner of a philanthropic worldview in the service of love, shaped by Muslim Sufism. "

In 2013, Murphy was arrested in Los Angeles and given a three-year suspended sentence. This was ruled by a court in Los Angeles on October 14, 2013, after the Bauhaus front man was arrested in the spring for hit-and-run, drug-driving, and methamphetamine possession. He is also required to attend a 45-day meeting of anonymous drug addicts and do ten days of community service. Murphy announced through his attorney Robert Wilson that he was "very satisfied" with the guilty verdict. In 2019, Peter Murphy suffered a serious heart attack. After two bypass operations, he came back in August.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Should The World Fail To Fall Apart
  UK 82 07/26/1986 (1 week)
Love hysteria
  US 135 08/14/1988 (19 weeks)
Deep
  US 44 03/12/1990 (22 weeks)
Holy Smoke
  US 108 09/20/1992 (3 weeks)
Lion
  US 173 06/21/2014 (1 week)
Singles
Final Solution
  UK 92 11/23/1985 (1 week)
All night long
  UK 100 03/12/1988 (1 week)
Indigo eyes
  UK 95 May 14, 1988 (2 weeks)
Cuts you up
  US 55 05.03.1990 (9 weeks)

Albums

  • 1986 Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
  • 1987 Love Hysteria
  • 1989 Deep
  • 1992 Holy Smoke
  • 1995 Cascade
  • 2001 A Live Just for Love
  • 2002 Dust
  • 2004 Unshattered
  • 2011 Ninth
  • 2014 Lion

Compilations

  • 1989 Composition (CD + VHS box set, also contains an extensive biography)
  • 1995 A Retrospective
  • 2000 Wild Birds 1985-1995: The Best of the Beggars Banquet Years

Singles

  • 1985 Final Solution
  • 1986 Blue Heart
  • 1986 Tale of Tongue
  • 1987 Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
  • 1988 Blind Sublime
  • 1988 All Night Long
  • 1988 Indigo Eyes
  • 1989 The Line Between the Devils Teeth
  • 1990 Cuts You Up
  • 1990 A Strange Kind of Love
  • 1992 hit song
  • 1992 The Sweetest Drop
  • 1992 Youre So Close
  • 1995 The Scarlet Thing in You
  • 1998 recall
  • 2011 The Secret Bees of Ninth
  • 2011 I Spit Roses
  • 2014 Hang Up

Video albums

  • 2000 The Videos

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  1. ↑ Peter Murphy - New Songs, Playlists & Latest News - BBC Music. Retrieved December 27, 2019 (UK English).
  2. ↑ Peter Murphy on laut.de
  3. ↑ Peter Murphy arrested after being hit and missed. laut.de, accessed on December 28, 2013 .
  4. ^ Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy: Three years on probation. laut.de, accessed on December 28, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Peter Murphy is ready to go again. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ chartarchive.org: Singles
  7. ↑ chartarchive.org: albums

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personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murphy, Peter John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH near Northampton , England