Biography

Long Island-born Elliott Murphy combined Dylanesque songwriting with a Velvet Underground-influenced rock & roll sound. Coming up on the early-1970s New York City scene alongside the New York Dolls, he crafted a brilliant debut album in 1973's AQUASHOW, but was the victim of an overblown hype campaign he couldn't live up to, and commercial success eluded him. By the end of the '80s, he had moved to France, building a European audience, recording prolifically and touring constantly for decades to come.

Top Tracks

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• And General Robert E. Lee

• Artificial Paradise

• Crying Creatures Of The Universe

• Diamonds By The Yard

• Eva Braun

• Everybody Got Lucky

• Hangin' Out

• Hey Gunslinger

• Hollywood

• How's The Family

• Isadora's Dancers

• Jet-lag

• La Belle Dame Sans Merci

• Like A Great Gatsby

• Lost Generation

• The Banks Of The Ohio

• The Beginning And The End

• The Best Kiss

• The Poet And The Priest

• The Valley Below

• Visions Of The Night

• You'll Never Know What You're In For

Discography

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• Elliott Murphy

  Last Call

  2010

• Notes from the Underground

  Last Call

  2008

• Murphy Gets Muddy

  Last Call

  2006

• Strings of the Storm

  Last Call

  2003

• Soul Surfing

  Last Call

  2002

• Last of the Rock Stars...and Me & You

  Dusty Roses Records

  2001

• La Terre Commune

  Eminent Records

  2001

• April: A Live Album

  Last Call

  2000

• Rainy Season

  Blue Rose

  2000

• Beauregard

  Koch Records / Koch International

  1998

• Selling the Gold

  Dejadisc

  1995

• Unreal City

  Razor & Tie Music

  1993

• 12

  Blue Rose

  1990

• Live Hot Point

  Last Call

  1989

• Milwaukee

  EMIS

  1986

• Après Le Déluge

  GB Music Ltd. / MRI / MRI Associated Labels

  1985

• Party Girls & Broken Poets

  Dejadisc

  1984

• Murph the Surf

  Blue Rose

  1982

• Affairs

  Courtisane

  1981

• Night Lights

  RCA

  1976

• Lost Generation

  RCA

  1975

• Aquashow

  Polydor

  1973