Amoeba Music

By Scott Feemster

Though still known primarily as the vocalist and frontman for goth pioneers Bauhaus, Peter Murphy has had a wide-ranging and successful career on his own terms.

            Peter John Murphy was born in the English midlands city of Northampton, and raised in a strict Catholic family of nine kids, he being the youngest. Murphy remembered first being attracted to music due to his mother’s habit of constantly humming tunes, and grew into an artistically inclined teenager, though one that was somewhat anti-social. Because of his anti-social bent, he turned down the chance to go to art college, and instead worked as printer’s... Read More

City Of Origin:

Northampton, England

Genre:

Rock, Gothic/Industrial, New Wave, Post Punk

Birthdate:

07/11/1957