The new video for “Night Surfing” has just been released and you can watch it right here on the official Elliott Murphy website.
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“Old Timer” – New Single
Listen to “Old Timer” on Spotify.
In celebration of turning seventy-five last March and in conjunction with his “50 years on the road” anniversary (with over forty albums and three-thousand shows all around the world), rock ‘n roll legend Elliott has released a new single “Old Timer” on all streaming platforms.
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Review of Birthday Shows at New Morning
Micmag, an online arts and news website, has published a glowing review of Elliott’s recent “Birthday” shows at New Morning in Paris. The article is in French but these days it’s very easy to translate online articles for reading in English.
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Previously Unpublished 1977 Interview
He has had four albums released: Aquashow, Lost Generation, Night Lights and Just A Story From America. His articles and interviews have appeared in various magazines including Rolling Stone and Circus. He wrote the liner notes for the Velvet Underground’s live 1969 album. His name is Elliott Murphy. He is a writer.
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Y a-t-il Autre Chose ? Une conversation avec Elliott Murphy par Gilles Farcet
Début d’octobre 2023 à Paris. L’été s’attarde toujours, comme s’il ne voulait pas céder la scène à l’automne. Bien sûr, changement climatique et tout ça… Si effrayant que ce soit dès que l’on commence à y penser, ce temps peut être agréable quand on décide de temporairement cesser de réfléchir à ces questions pour juste être un parisien inconscient et joyeux qui arpente innocemment les rues de sa ville.
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Is There Something More? A Conversation with Elliott Murphy by Gilles Farcet
Early October 2023 in Paris. The summer is still dragging on, as if it did not want to leave the stage for autumn. Well of course, climate change and all that… Still, frightening as it is if one thinks of it, that weather can be pleasant when you temporarily choose to stop reflecting on all that and just be an unconscious cheerful Parisian innocently walking the streets of his city.
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New Review Of Live In Bilbao
Jeff Burger has reviewed the new Live In Bilbao album on the Blog Critics website. You can read the full review on the website. Here’s a bit of what he had to say.
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Tinnitus Journals – Volume 1
A fascinating look at the interior life of a working musician, semi-famous, living in Paris, struggling with the ringing in his ears and the world in which we all live. Full of archival photos and lyrics from Elliott Murphy’s catalog…
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Live In Bilbao Now Available!
Finally a CD version of the legendary Elliott Murphy with Olivier Durand sold-out Bilbao concert of 2015 featuring songs from the EP Intime (“Benedict’s Blues,” “Sweet Honky Tonk”) as well as classic Murphy songs.
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Live In Bilbao Video
The “On and On with Elliott” Download Series continues for August with a live video recorded and filmed at Sala BBK in Bilbao, Spain on January 25, 2015.
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Oxford Ale House 1977
The “On and On with Elliott” Download Series continues for June with a live show recorded at the Oxford Ale House in New Haven, Connecticut on November 1, 1977.
Live In Bergamo 1983
The “On and On with Elliott” Download Series continues for April with a live show recorded in Bergamo, Italy on July 21, 1983 at the Music Hall Gech.
Live In Caen 1983
The “On and On with Elliott” Download Series continues for March with a live show recorded in Caen, France on January 13, 1983 at the Concorde.
New “On and On with Elliott” Download Series
We’re very excited to announce a new series of live downloads from Elliott called “On and On with Elliott.”
“Notes From A Spanish Café” Download
We’ve scanned a 1998 version of Elliott’s Notes From A Spanish Café and converted it to a PDF for you to download and read.
Free MP3 Download from Vin Scelsa’s Easter Sunday Acoustic Extravaganza
This month we’re offering a free MP3 download of “Running Around” that Elliott performed live on the radio in 1987.
Free MP3 Download of 1993 Radio Broadcast
This month we’re offering a free MP3 download of a radio show that Elliott did in 1993 promoting his new album Unreal City.
The Unofficial and Incomplete Elliott Murphy Songbook
Johan and Dries Vanden Borre have assembled the Unofficial and Incomplete Elliott Murphy Songbook with lyrics and guitar chords to over 80 songs.
The Middle Kingdom Album Now Available!
The Middle Kingdom is a dramatic spoken word with music album comprised of a selection of poems from the Elliott Murphy collection of the same name.
“The Second Act Of Elliott Murphy” at Le Plan
“The Second Act Of Elliott Murphy” will be shown on Friday, September 25th at 20h00 at Le Plan in Ris-Orangis.
“Broken Poet” Interview at American Songwriter
Elliott was recently interviewed by Robert Dye with American Songwriter magazine for an article about the new Broken Poet film.
Watch “Broken Poet”
The long-awaited Elliott Murphy film Broken Poet will come out on digital HD May 15 from Virgil Films and Entertainment exclusively through music site Backstreets.com….
Just A Story From Paris
Backstreets is proud to present the official world premiere of singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy’s film Broken Poet. The movie is now available to purchase via Vimeo for streaming at home, as a special limited-time offer for Backstreets readers. read more
The Second Act of Elliott Murphy
The Second Act Of Elliott Murphy directed by Jorgen Arenillas and featuring Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel is now available on Amazon.com for rent or purchase. If you have Amazon Prime…
New Album: Ricochet
Elliott Murphy’s acclaimed new album Richochet is now available! Richochet is an eclectic album of outtakes, live versions and previously un-released tracks from the last 20 years of Elliott Murphy’s forty-five-year …
New Book: Garden City Stories
Garden City is the middle-class Long Island village where Elliott Murphy grew up, wrote his first story (“Getting Away” contained herein) and learned to play guitar and sing, planting the seeds for an international…
Elliott Murphy Is Going To Be A Monster!
That’s exactly what giant New York City subway posters boldly prophesied in 1973 after the release of Elliott’s debut album Aquashow. In this honest and gripping memoir he describes…
A New Novel
Elliott Murphy’s long awaited novel Tramps is now available in the store. Following Marty May as the second in his trilogy of rock ‘n roll novels, Trampstakes place in a 1980’s era blues bar in New York City where ex-punk…
Aquashow Press Kit
We’ve come across an incredible Elliott Murphy press kit from 1973 in the vaults. Sent out by Polydor Records around the release of Aquashow, this is a wonderful document of the start of Elliott’s career. Contained in the press…
Elliott Murphy Is Alive!
Murphyland Records announces the release of a classic live Elliott Murphy recording accompanied by his virtuoso French guitarist (and for over 22 years his musical partner) Olivier Durand entitled Elliott Murphy Is Alive! …