Elliott murphy biography

Elliott Murphy

American singer-songwriter (born )

Musical artist

Elliott James Murphy (born March 16, ) is an American rock singer-songwriter, novelist, record producer, and journalist.

Biography

Elliott Murphy was born in Rockville Centre, New York,[1] grew up in Garden Municipality, Long Island and began playing the guitar at age twelve. His band The Rapscallions won the New York State Battle of the Bands.[2] In he travelled to Europe and appeared in the Federico Fellini movie Roma[3] Returning to New York, in he secured a document contract with Polydor Records after being noticed by rock critic Paul Nelson.[4] In , he returned to college studies he had given up in the s, and completed his bachelor's degree at Empire State College.[5]

His debut album Aquashow () was critically acclaimed[6] and favorably reviewed in Rolling Stone, Newsweek and The New Yorker.

Follow up albums included Lost Generation () produced by Doors Producer Paul A. Rothchild, Night Lights () and Just a Story from America (). Special guests on Murphy's albums have included Bruce Springsteen, Mick Taylor, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Sonny Landreth, David Johansen, The Violent Femmes, Cindy Bullens and Shawn Colvin.

To date, he has released over thirty-five albums including, Affairs (), Murph the Surf (). In Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads produced the album Milwaukee. Selling the Gold () featured a duet, "Everything I Do", with Bruce Springsteen.

The album also has a collaboration with the Violent Femmes: all three imaginative members Gordon Gano, Victor DeLorenzo, Brian Ritchie appear on the track "King of the Serpentine".

The albums Beauregard, Rainy Season, Soul Surfing, and La Terre Commune, a duo with Iain Matthews, followed.

Never Say NeverThe Best of –, a CD and DVD of performances was released in The year ended with Murphy Gets Muddy, an album of 9 classic blues covers and 5 Murphy blues originals. In early the album Coming Home Again was released in Europe.

Murphy's 30th studio album, Notes from the Underground, came out in and he returned to the United States. A live CD/DVD-set "Alive in Paris" was released in the fall followed by the self-titled "Elliott Murphy" (), "Just A Story from New York" () and "It Takes A Worried Man" which was produced by his son Gaspard Murphy.[7] All Music Guide has rated over fifteen of his albums with 4 stars or more[8]

In addition to his music and ballad lyrics Murphy has written for Rolling Stone, Spin, Mucchio Selvaggio, Jam and various European magazines and has published Cold & Electric, a semi-autobiographical novel, in French, German and Spanish editions, as well as two brief story collections (The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Where the Women Are Naked and the Men Are Rich) and in Café Notes (Hachette, France).

In the complete version of Cold & Electric re-titled "Marty May" was published by Joelle Losfeld/Gallimard.[9]

On October 1, , Elliott Murphy was awarded the Médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris in a ceremony at the Hôtel de Ville presided by Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë for recognition of his career as a musician and author.[10]

On November 4, Elliott Murphy was decorated with the Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in a ceremony at the Mairie of the 4th Arrondissement in Paris.[11]

In he was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame by Billy Joel[12]

A biography of Elliott Murphy, "Hardcore", written by Charles Pitter, was published in [13]

The Second Do of Elliott Murphy

In , the documentary film, The Second Do of Elliott Murphy, by Spanish director Jorge Arenillas, detailing the transition of Murphy's career from the US to Europe was released on Mirabal Films.

He has acted as his control alter-ego in a feature production alongside Marisa Berenson, and his novels, short stories, and memoirs have been published and translated in multiple languages around Europe. So why, with his four studio albums from three major U. Then Murphy slowly began to fade from the scene, before one day disappearing just as abruptly as the trendy Belgian singer Brel had done in Paris, in Brel was at the peak of his career when, at age 37, after farewell concerts at the Olympia music hall, he proclaimed that he had nothing more to give as a singer.

The film won the Audience Prize award at the Dock of the Bay film festival[14] in San Sebastian, Spain and included interviews with both Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel.[15]

Broken Poet

In , Elliott Murphy starred in the film, Broken Poet, by Spanish director Emilio Ruiz Barrachina, adapted from the Elliott Murphy short-story The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

Also starring in the motion picture are Marisa Berenson, Michael O'Keefe, Joana Preiss and a cameo appearance by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.[16]

Discography and books

Albums and EPs

Vintage Series

  • 1 Aquashow & Just A Story From America Demos
  • 2 The Night Lights Band Live
  • 3 Hello Long Island
  • 4 The Murphys
  • 5 Gramercy Park
  • 6 Electric Murphyland
  • 7 Double E
  • 8 Live In Texas DVD
  • 9 The Paris Concerts: Eldorado Like Boats Against the Current
  • 10 Gold Demos

Compilation albums

  • Diamonds by the Yard ()
  • Paris/New York ()
  • Going Through Something – the Finest of – ()
  • Never Say Never – the Best of – & Live DVD ()

Live albums

  • Live Hot Point ()
  • April – a Live Album ()
  • The Last of the Rock Stars and Me and You ()
  • Alive in Paris ()
  • Just A Story From Recent York ()
  • Just for One Day ()
  • Elliott Murphy is Alive! ()
  • Live in Bilbao ()

Film Soundtrack albums

Misc albums

Books

  • Cold and Electric (Frío y eléctrico, Madrid, , Ediciones Clips).

    Paris: L'Entreligne, ISBN&#;

  • Where the Women Are Naked and the Men Are Rich (Donde Las Mujeres Estan Desnudas Y Los Hombres Son Ricos). Madrid: Celeste Ediciones, ISBN&#;
  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight (El león duerme esta noche, Barcelona, , Ed.

    Stultilfera Navis)

  • Café Notes Hachette () ISBN&#;
  • Note al caffé. Italy: FBE Edizioni, ISBN&#;
  • Poetic Justice. Paris: Hachette Littératures, ISBN&#;
  • Il mio nome e John Little. Italy: FBE Edizioni, ISBN&#;
  • Poetic Justice.

    Living in Paris for 30 years as an expatriate New Yorker, veteran rocker and author Elliott Murphy’s career in music and literature is more active than ever. He has released over 35 albums, still performs shows all over Europe as skillfully as the U.S. and Japan and is a prolific writer of fiction.

    Elliott Murphy Books, ISBN&#;

  • Marty May. Joelle Losefeld/Gallimard, ISBN&#;
  • Forty Poems in Forty Nights. Elliott Murphy Books, ISBN&#;
  • Paris Stories. Elliott Murphy Books, ISBN&#;
  • Tramps.

    Murphyland Books, ISBN&#;

  • Diamonds by the Yard. Murphyland Books, ISBN&#;
  • Just a story from America - A memoir. Murphyland Books. ISBN&#;

Novels

References

  1. ^"Elliott Murphy".

    . Retrieved November 21,

  2. ^"The Elliott Murphy Interview".

    Elliott Murphy. Fortunately, not 48 years late! This brilliant memoir was published in English in Mayand in French last November. So I am only a little behind on that!

    . Retrieved November 21,

  3. ^"Elliott Murphy". . Retrieved November 21,
  4. ^Avery, Kevin.

    Murphy suggests a hit record. Murphy tells us that now the answer would be to see his father again. Scott Fitzgerald. But what of bad behaviour, throwing televisions through windows and rock and roll excess?

    "Read an Excerpt from Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson". November 14, American Songwriter website, November 14,

  5. ^Kolbert, Elizabeth (January 3, ). "Getting Credit For Life's Experiences".

    The New York Times. New York, NY. p.&#;

  6. ^Pitter, Charles (March 20, ).

    elliott murphy biography1: Elliott James Murphy (born March 16, ) is an American rock singer-songwriter, novelist, record producer, and journalist. Elliott Murphy was born in Rockville Centre, New York, [1] grew up in Garden City, Long Island and began playing the guitar at age twelve. His band The Rapscallions won the New York Express Battle of the Bands. [2].

    "PopMatters".

  7. ^"ELLIOTT MURPHY "deconstructs" his debut album – Aquashow Deconstructed! &#; Blue Rose Records". Archived from the original on November 17, Retrieved November 15,
  8. ^"Elliott Murphy – Album Discography".

    AllMusic. Retrieved November 21,

  9. ^Losfeld, Editions Joelle.

    Elliott James Murphy born Protest 16, is an American rock singer-songwriter, novelist, record producer, and journalist. To date, he has released over thirty-five albums including, AffairsMurph the Surf Never Express Never The year ended with Murphy Gets Muddyan album of 9 classic blues covers and 5 Murphy blues originals.

    "Joëlle Losfeld – Marty May – Elliott Murphy – Littérature étrangère". . Archived from the unique on December 1, Retrieved November 21,

  10. ^"Elliott Murphy décoré par la Ville de Paris – Musiques – ". . September 27, Retrieved November 21,
  11. ^"Elliott Murphy, un rocker américain adoubé à Paris – Musiques – ".

    . November 5, Retrieved November 21,

  12. ^"Billy Joel inducts longtime guitarist Tommy Byrnes and singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy". . November 11, Retrieved July 19,
  13. ^Charles, Pitter ().

    Hardcore. UK: Indiegogo. ISBN&#;.

  14. ^"Dock Of The Bay list of winners – Dock Of The Bay. Music Documentary Production Festival". . Retrieved November 21,
  15. ^"'The Second Act of Elliott Murphy': Film Review".

    The Hollywood Reporter.

    To begin at the end of Elliott Murphy’s memoir Just A Story From America, Murphy and his pal Bruce Springsteen are riding bikes to Springsteen’s hometown at the height of Born in the USA mania, and Springsteen asks Murphy what he would want if he could have anything in the world.

    November 8, Retrieved November 21,

  16. ^"Elliott Murphy debuta como actor protagonista en un filme de Ruiz Barrachina". . December 2, Retrieved July 19,

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