Summer Shows: Elliott Murphy and the Normandy All Stars featuring Olivier Durand are about to start hitting summer festivals all over Europe - France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Sweden. Check the Tour section for details.

The 2010 Annual Birthday Show: For Elliott's European fans (or those visiting Paris from the US) be sure not to miss his annual and legendary show at New Morning in Paris on Saturday March 27, 2010. (click on the image for a bigger version)

The Unfished Complete Lyrics Of Elliott Murphy Lenoir Ediciones announces the publication of The Unfinished Complete Lyrics of Elliott Murphy featuring the lyrics of 231 songs album by album. With a beautiful cover photo by Jack Mitchell from the Aquashow sessions and full of photos from all periods of Elliott's career inside. All the words from Aquashow to Notes From the Underground! Now available in the store on this site.

EM COME HOME...Elliott Murphy and the Normandy All Stars featuring Olivier Durand will play seven shows in the Northeast USA early December. Be there! Click on image for full schedule.

Cafe Heartbeat Concert On A USB Stick: Radio T in Chemitz, Germany recently recorded an Elliott Murphy And The Normandy All Stars Featuring Olivier Durand show at the great Cafe Heartbeat in Zwonitz and to satisfy the fans who wanted to take that great night home with them Radio T immediately burned engraved USB sticks to purchase after the show. The set list is:

1. The Valley Below
2. O Wyoming
3. A Touch of Mercy
4. Green River
5. Sonny
6. Pneumonia Alley
7. The Day after Valentine's Day
8. Razzmatazz
9. Canaries In The Mind
10. You Never Know What You're In For
11. The Last of the Rock Stars
12. On Elvis Presley's Birthday

Here's the link to purchase the USB. They still have a limited supply left so act fast.

We're so East Coast! Elliott Murphy will be returning to the East Coast of the U.S.A. for five shows in mid April 2009 on his Memory and Desire tour. Elliott will be performing with his incredible French backing band The Normandy All Stars featuring his amazing guitarist Olivier Durand. Once again, opening the show will be singer-songwriter Jann Klose and expect some surprises during Elliott's encores. Dates are confirmed in Fairfield CT, Fall River MA, Asbury Park NJ, Hoboken NY and Amagansett NY - check Tour section for details. These will be Elliott's first USA shows with a band in over a decade. For booking/gig information Anne Leighton and stay tuned for more information. "We're so East Coast - So here's a toast - Here's to everything that I wanted the most." ("Change Will Come")

Crawdaddy! Feature Article: One of the true original and long standing American rock 'n roll mags, Crawdaddy!, has posted a long interview and feature article on Elliott on their site written by legendary rock writer and long time Murphy admirer Mick Skidmore. Check it out.

I wish they all could be California Girls! Elliott Murphy will be playing his first West Coast shows in the U.S.A. in twelve years in January 2009 on his Hollywood Tour! Opening the show will be up and coming singer songwriter Jann Klose and Elliott will be appearing as a duo with his amazing guitarist Olivier Durand. Dates are confirmed in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Tehachapi, San Diego, Long Beach and at the NAMM show in Anaheim - check Tour section for details. Plans for an April 2009 Mid West tour with band are in the works. For booking/gig information Anne Leighton and stay tuned for more information. Hollywood - you shaped my life with a technicolor carving knife ...

Hometown boy makes good! The Marie of the 6th Arrondisement in Paris, along with the University Paris Diderot, will host a two week long exposition honoring the 35 year career in music and literature of Elliott Murphy from September 10 - 26, 2008 entitled Elliott Murphy - Last of the Rock Stars - Retrospective that will culminate with a live concert on 26 September. It will be located in the beautiful Mairie (town hall) of the 6th Arrondisement in Paris right near the famous cafés of St. Germain. If you're planning a trip to Paris and you're an Elliott Murphy fan it's a great time to visit the city of light which Elliott has called home for the past 18 years. Right click on the image to download a full size, press quality PDF poster. (It's a big file.)

Elliott, Gaspard and Bruce: On June 27, 2008 Elliott Murphy and his talented guitarist son Gaspard Murphy joined Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for "Born To Run" in front of 50,000 ecstatic fans at Parc de Princes in Paris, France. When Bruce invited Elliott to join him on stage shortly before the show and suggested "Born to Run" Elliott thought he might be unsure of the chords but Gaspard piped in that he could teach Dad as he knew the song by heart. And Bruce, in an incredible gesture of generosity, said "Well, if you know the song Gaspard then you can come up and play it too!" An unforgettable night for a father and son reunion and a memory that will last forever. See a larger version of the photo.

US radio airplay! "What's That" - an exciting up-tempo track from Elliott's recent release Notes From The Underground in which he sings his way through the entire alphabet ("A is for amazed when you walk out of the show - B is for bedazzled its the witching hour") is receiving airplay on NEXT: A New Music Show on radio station The Peak 107.1 from White Plains, New York. If you listen to The Peak and would like to hear more Elliott Murphy music on that great rock station send them an email at studio@1071thepeak.com and let them know.

New album now available! Elliott Murphy's new album Notes From The Underground is now available in the store here at elliottmurphy.com. It's also available at iTunes:

New online store! We've launched a new store here at elliottmurphy.com. Most of the items are available at our special "nice" price. We'll be adding more items soon. Visit the new store HERE.

Remember though, this is just a small portion of the Elliott Murphy CDs and LPs available. You can find a much larger collection at the "Official" Elliott Murphy store located HERE. You'll also find T-Shirts and books there.

New MP3 of "Canaries In The Mind." A solo acoustic version of the song from Coming Home Again. LISTEN NOW

Elliott Murphy and Red Lounge Records announce the release of The Murphys - The 1973 Aquashow Demos - on a limited Vinyl edition:

The album features a stunning photo from the original Aquashow sessions taken at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and consists of the very high quality demos that Elliott Murphy, Matthew Murphy and friend George Gates recorded before the final Aquashow sessions. Click here for more information and to order.

Purchase Downloads
You can now purchase selected song downloads directly from this site. Currently you can purchase individual songs from Coming Home Again for $0.99 each. More songs will be added in the future.

New CD! Coming Home Again

From the opening drum fill of "Pneumonia Alley" it's clear that Elliott Murphy's 29th album Coming Home Again is something very special in the career of this legendary singer-songwriter. Coming Home Again is already being talked about as a return to the classic Murphy songwriting style that marked his early albums Aquashow and Just A Story From America. Recorded in Le Havre, France with a talented crew of musicians from Europe and America including virtuoso French guitarist Olivier Durand and New York keyboardist Kenny Margolis. In this impressive collection of 13 new songs Murphy tips his hat to cultural icons as diverse as Hemingway and Paris Hilton and exotic locales from India to Veracruz although the music and words belongs to that mythical place his fans now call Murphyland. They will even give you a passport if you ask!*

Coming Home Again features moving anthems ("Pneumonia Alley") and righteous rockers ("Marianne's Garage Sale") and of course the tender ballads Murphy is famous for "(Making Friends With The Dead" & "Home Again") as well as a eulogy to a fallen musical comrade ("Jesse"). The album includes a track so radio-friendly ("A Touch of Kindness") that perhaps we'll be hearing Elliott Murphy back on the radio all over the world once again as with his FM hits of the past "Drive All Night" and "Anastasia."

Murphy (who with guitarist Olivier Durand plays over 100 shows a year all over Europe) says that most of the songs were recently written on the road: "After my blues album Murphy Gets Muddy I wanted to get back to a rich and diverse sound and I was confident that my current band (drummer Alan Fatras [ex-Moon Martin] and bassist Laurent Pardo [ex-Kid Pharoen] and of course guitarist Olivier Durand could give me what I wanted to hear when we went into the studio. In fact, I could hear the finished songs in my head even before we began recording and all the musicians seemed to read my mind. We recorded in-between tours at Florent Barbier's [ex-Roadrunners] brand new studio in Le Havre. For many years now I've been an expatriate American musician living in Paris and on the road and to tell the truth I don't know where home is anymore. But I know that Coming Home Again is where I want to be."

Come home to the legendary sound of singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy with Coming Home Again and you'll never want to leave!

iTunes! Almost all of Elliott's albums are now available for purchase at iTunes, both in Europe and the US. 24 albums are currently available, including the "Vintage Series" releases (which are available at a special low price). You can purchase entire albums or individual songs. And the best part is all the proceeds go to Elliott, not some record label somewhere. Click this button to view Elliott's albums at iTunes.

New MP3 of "Open City." A radio performance of "Open City" By Elliott and Olivier Durand at Radio Paradiso on Suisse Radio recorded February 24, 2006. LISTEN NOW

Read Elliott's thoughts about Paul Nelson who died recently. Paul was important to Elliott in the early days of his career and without Paul's help Elliott would probably never have been noticed by the rock critics who were so influential at the time. Read Elliott's essay HERE.

Download Elliott's original handwritten lyrics for "Winners, Losers, Beggars, Choosers."
Franck Dumaine was kind enough to send us the original handwritten lyrics for this classic song. We've reproduced them as a PDF file which you can download HERE.

Aquashow featured in Uncut magazine. The April 2006 edition of the UK's Uncut magazine features a full page article on Aquashow under the heading "All-Time Classics." We've reproduced it as a PDF file which you can download HERE.

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Download Elliott's original liner notes for the Velvet Underground's 1969 Live
Elliott recently came across his original liner notes for the Velvet Underground's 1969 Live album. We've reproduced them as a PDF file which you can download HERE.

Signs Of Summer On A TGV

Hello ... Aqua-blue seas somewhere off the cote d'azur in the south of France, lounging on a beach chair sipping an iced Coke Zero, wondering if its time for a dip in the sparkling Mediterranean bathtub or should I order a heaping plate of peeled shrimp or a club sandwich. Better yet, continue to stare behind my Ray-Bans at the mini-kini clad delicious duo lying topless on the blanket next to me. Perhaps they need my tanning advice ... Wake up Elliott!

Sleeping on a train, just approaching Paris and I bet I was talking with myself again, like a pair of socks arguing with each other. In fact, I was still enchanted by Jim Morrison's leather-clad, Adonis-like, Nijinsky-fueled stage jumps from which he never recovered. Do go see Tom DiCillo's fine documentary Strange Days, a wholesome journey into a brilliant lost soul. I saw the film in Paris, which was ironic as that's where Jim was laid to rest. Doors drummer John Densmore came to introduce the film and received a standing ovations that went on for quite a while. He let us in on a nice Jim anecdote but I was surprised he didn't mention Paris, because after all this is really where the band broke up ... forever. Johnny Depp narrates the film, and, I for one say ... thanks.

Didn't I write a lyric saying I could hold you for thousand years ... or was that David Bowie? But no, I'm sorry I couldn't, five minutes max before a cramp arose and dug in like a spike. Now, I must remember to tell my body I love it every day, for carrying me along all these years, supporting my whims and dares, pushing me forward in times of anxiety and stress and even managing to help me relax sometimes, like now, when I'm sitting on a train as the reedy green ramparts whiz by. I see abandoned cars and the back end of factories and sometimes-beautiful spring blossoms of pink and white. Five dozen summers and yet I remember only a handful if that, but the promise is always there, when I put away my heavy coat for another season and happily rush into T-shirt weather. And that's the problem; where do I put my wallet? My keys? My telephone? My pen? My notebook? My life?

I suffered summer heartbreaks and endured summer breakdowns. I'm addicted to air-conditioning and ice-cream. It was my summers that made me the man I am today. How can I explain that? Elocution fails me now in the most poignant moments when I can find myself slurring and stammering and not just for effect. But critics tell me my singing has gotten better, thank God, and I do believe that I sound more like me then ever before. But that was inevitable, I suppose. What else can explain how Jim Morrison's vocals on La Woman, his penultimate album, are among his finest. Mr Mojo Rising - did you know that was an anagram for Jim Morison? Try Other Multiply ...

Down the aisle I hear what can only be me, me, me crying out loud, a year old baby boy hitched up high to this mother's chest, one arm hooked to her neck like a lifeline. He stares straight-ahead at me, unafraid and ambitious, as he is walked down the aisle. His first summer is just beginning and his hair as fine as breath. It's the courage of babies that forces me to smile, knowingly. Don't explain, don't complain I want to tell him. Why do we find new life so delicious and old age so sad? I'm somewhere in the middle I suppose, twice past the point where Jim Morrison got off too soon while driving down your freeway.

How could that baby know more then my own mother, her past the eighty mark, him not even crawling. I think I had a flashback of 2001 there for a moment. Morrison and Kubrick, there's a pair who obviously could have worked together. But there's no system here, no justice, no finality - only time and movement. What are a few light years between high points? They tell me the very seat I'm sitting on now is part of this solar system, a system of stars, the sun calling the shots, and that we are hurtling through the infinite space at a speed I can't contemplate. Me, I only feel the muted vibrations of this high-speed train and I hope we stay on the tracks; my ears register the pressure drop each time we pass under an underpass and in some way I find that exciting and oddly comforting. And I'm a guy who loves roller coasters ... only from a distance.

To be together on this train with a full car of fellow riders is comforting in a way. We are all going somewhere and this, and maybe only this, I share with Jesus Christ and Iggy Pop: I am a passenger. William Blake said something about opening the Doors of Perception making things clear and infinite and just this inspired two LA film students to form a band and light a fire. Is this what it takes? Two hundred years and more to inspire someone to create music Blake himself would never hear. The clear part I dig and can live with and the infinite part I indeed saw once too vividly in the back seat of a Lincoln smoking DMT with The Doors Touch Me blasting on the radio and the stars grew large as diamonds and started falling on me! Oh horrors, I cried, the horrors! But I got over it and then did it again and more before the folly of my own strange days brought me to my knee. The doors of perception had been opened wide or me that night on Long Island in a parking lot behind the 305 Lounge where my band played but not shut correctly and still today whenever I stare into a bright black night sky I still peek into the infinite side of ... things ... and my system can't handle it and wants to shut down. Infinity is like a Solar Eclipse, you can't look at it directly or you're going to get hurt. Go tell Icarus or Jim Morrison and they would understand my cautionary tale, I'm sure.

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