Neil Murray (Australian musician)

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Neil Murray (born 1956, Ararat, Victoria) is an Australian musician and writer. He was a founding member of the Warumpi Band that formed in the early 1980s, the first major Aboriginal rock group an influential Aboriginal rock band.

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[edit] Biography

Neil launched his solo career in 1989 and has since released seven albums, plus one CD of spoken poetry. In 1995 his song My Island Home, originally written for the Warumpi Band, was named the APRA Song of the Year. Re-recorded by Christine Anu, it has since become an unofficial anthem and featured in the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

[edit] Discography

  • 1989 Calm and Crystal Clear
  • 1993 These Hands
  • 1996 Dust
  • 2000 The Wondering Kind
  • 2003 Going the Distance
  • 2005 About Time: A Song Collection
  • 2007 Spoken
  • 2007 Overnighter

[edit] Videos

  • 1989 Calm and Crystal Clear, Let’s Fall In Love Again
  • 1993 Holy Road, Sing Your Destiny
  • 2004 Over the Moon, Holding on to Sky
  • 2005 Tom Wills Would

[edit] Published Works

  • 1999 One Man Tribe – collection of poetry
  • 1993 Sing for me, Countryman
  • 1980 Starting Procedure (poetry)

[edit] Short Stories

  • Home and Away – The Bulletin 1983
  • Boomerangs – Going Down Swinging 1983
  • Two Stones – Inprint 1983
  • One Last Hitch – The Edge, 1989
  • The Risks of Two-up Motorcycling, Australian Short Stories 1987
  • Unmarked Graves – included in Banjo Clarke’s Wisdom Man, Penguin Australia, 2003

[edit] Stage plays

  • King For This Place, Commissioned by Deckchair Theatre Fremantle, Western Australia, 1999

[edit] References


[edit] External Links

A video for the song Holy Road

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