Elliott Murphy

AUDIO

AUDIO: Elliott Murphy (2009)
Interview by Archie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, December 2009
The man who bore the weight of being the "New Dylan" in the mid-'70s looks back at his early days, his move to Europe, and brings ...

ARTICLES IN LIBRARY

Various: New York New Wave
Report by Dave Marsh, Melody Maker, October 1973
GREAT WHITE ROCK has not often come from New York City and its surrounding boroughs, even though – or perhaps because the American music business is ...

New York Dolls/Eliott Murphy: The Academy of Music, New York
Live Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, April 1974
VALENTINE GLITTER: DOLLS & ELLIOTT MURPHY, THE SWEETHEARTS OF NEW YAWK CITY ...

Elliot Murphy: Night Lights (RCA)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, March 1976
Lost Generation, the second album by this hero-obsessed New Yorker, made it clear that Murphy’s haughty, proper-noun-laden style could be undercut by unsympathetic or insensitive studio ...

Elliott Murphy: Just A Story From America (CBS)
Review by Andy Gill, NME, May 1977
A FEW years ago, Rolling Stone printed a sizeable review of the first albums by Elliott Murphy and Bruce Springsteen, assessing them as contenders for the ...

Elliott Murphy: Just A Story From America (Columbia)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, June 1977
WHEN I FIRST put this record on the turntable, it spun and revolved just like any other vinyl tostada. The needle, just like always, ate its ...

Elliott Murphy: Bottom Line, NY
Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, June 1977
I WAS HALFWAY through my cheeseburger when Elliott Murphy hit stage. He was greeted by the kind of applause that is reserved for unknowns who have ...

Elliott Murphy at the Hotel Café, L.A.
Review by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, January 2009
BACK IN 1973, this celebrated Long Island singer/songwriter and the New York Dolls were the twin toasts of the town's still-nascent rock-crit ...