Chris “CM” Murphy, longtime manager of the Australian-based band INXS (from 1979 to 1995 and in the 2000s), has died in Sydney after a battle with mental cell lymphoma. He was 66 years old.
A Murphy Patrol Group representative shared the news early Saturday morning (January 16): “Caroline Murphy and family have confirmed that Murphy Patrol Group Chairman Christopher (CM) Mark Murphy has passed away today. Peacefully away on his favorite bidding property ‘Sugar Beach Ranch’ surrounded by his family. The Chief Minister celebrated a career spanning more than 40 years and had an incredible impact on the global music and entertainment industry. Known for taking INXS ” Bands of Brothers’ to worldwide stardom, CM Murphy impressed the lives of many around the world with his endless passion and drive. It will be greatly missed. “
The members of INXS said: “It is with great sadness that the rest of the members of INXS mourn the passing of our brother Chris Murphy. Without Chris’s vision, passion and hard work, INXS’s story would be quite different. Chris’s star has burned very bright and we live life well and send all our love to his family. “
INXS Australia was ranked among the most successful groups to come out of Australia, selling millions of albums worldwide. The band is based in the U.S. Experienced many commercial peaks, most notably the 1987 album “Kick”, which sold over 7 million copies. His predecessor, 1985’s “Listen Like a Thief”, and follow-up, 1990’s “X,” also died in 1997 at the age of 37, according to USNX’s magnetic frontman Michael Huchens.
In the documentary “Mystify: Michael Huchens”, Murphy reveals his decision to run the group. “I’ll just do it on the basis that we do it internationally,” he said. Founding members include Gary Gary Bears, Andrew Ferris, John Ferris, Tim Ferris, Kirk Pengili and Hutchins. Murphy had experience in the global music market as a teenager working at his father’s theater booking agency, Mark Murphy and Associates. Later led management under the study of Gary Morris, whose clients included Midnight Oil and INXS, he started MMA management.
Murphy intelligently negotiated deals for INXS directly with the American label, Atco, and later Atlantic, which are widely believed to have played a key role in his breakout success. Still, the Atlantic initially had the wreckage to release “Kick”. As Murphy noted in the interview, the label offered the band million 1 million to re-record. Instead, he suggested saying “Mediate” with the album’s lead single, “Need You Tonight” (whose guitar riff can currently be heard on Dua Lipa’s “Break My Heart”) with a two-minute-37-second coda. The song came in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Murphy said: “Kick sounds are played by four different bands. There were big ballads, rough stones, funk … the kick is brilliant, but it’s everywhere and I thought, ‘How am I going to pull this into any kind of campaign?’ ”
INXS became a huge touring act, filling the arena around the world. Speaking to the Music Network in 2019, Murphy was asked about the band’s Hayde. “I’ve never been to INXS parties,” Murphy said. “After they play a huge show at Madison Square Gardens in New York, they’ll hit the clubs. I’ll go back to my hotel room and work on my plan on how to get to the next level.”
Murphy, who also managed group models in the 1980s, was described as a major marketer, but stumbled upon a short-lived Max Q, such as the 1989 collaboration between Huchens and music sea musician and producer Oli Olsen. At the same time, Murphy joined his entrepreneurial side and spent decades investing in a variety of businesses, including an organic food provider, a magazine and a Sydney radio station. In 1988, he started the independent label Ruort, which was home to acts such as Crash Politics, The Hummingbirds, Ratcat, UMI, Wendy Mathews and The Screaming Jets.
After a 10-year hiatus, during which Murphy sold his musical estate, he returned to the industry to create new companies. Petrol Electric Records was launched in 2001 (signed by INXSA with the label in 2008) and Murphy’s Rights Management in 2014. In 2018, it took the second USS sibling act of the country group The Buckles.
Sarah, Lachlan and Molly Buckley said, “Chris has been our guardian angel ever since he met her and he will be there for the rest of his life. “Everyone who knows and blesses him – his power, passion, guidance and love will last forever. We are so grateful to him, our best friend, great champion and mentor for roaming this earth. His spirit and light will always be inside and around us. ”
Most recently, it has been developing a retirement community for musicians and music industry professionals in New South Wales. Speaking about the project in 2019, Murphy explained: “A lot of people are getting older. And, what are these people going to do? He has worked in a very creative industry all his life; What are you going to do now that you don’t have a job? Sit in a quiet retirement village with people you don’t know or don’t share common interests? લોકો The people in the retirement villages, as we speak, are the people who built this bloody country. Merchants, all kinds of people who lived in an era where you really had to work. “
Murphy has survived his wife Caroline; Children Steve, Jerry, Jack, Lewis and Charlie; And grandchildren Asher, Samantha, Bella, Axel, Harley and Reuben; His mother Janice; And sisters Charn and Tanya.
The family says Murphy “was passionate about agriculture, horse breeding, pigeon racing, surfing and rugby. His competitive spirit seen on the polo field and the ice hockey rink were alive to the end as he battled mental cell lymphoma. “They have requested that, instead of flowers, trees be given as gifts” to create a permanent and growing monument to Chris’s beloved Bali property. “For information, contact [email protected].
