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3	Peter John Joseph Murphy (born 11 July 1957) is a British AlternativeRock musician currently based in UsefulNotes/{{Turkey}}. He came to prominence in TheEighties as the LargeHam singer of GothRock pioneers Music/{{Bauhaus}}, where his deep voice, doom and gloom poetics and vampiric appearance earned him the title of "Godfather of Goth".
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5	After the band split and he tried a short collaboration with Music/{{Japan}}'s Mick Karn as Dalis Car, he set out on his own moderately successful solo career, holding the Billboard Modern Rock charts longer than any previous single in 1990 with "Cuts You Up". His music is characterized by his high-personality, a Music/DavidBowie inspired penchant for arty Alternative Pop, and the occasional dabble in World Music, including that of his home country Turkey since converting to Islam and moving there in TheNineties.
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8	!! Solo Discography:
9	* ''Should the World Fail to Fall Apart'' - (1986)
10	* ''Love Hysteria'' - (1988)
11	* ''Deep'' - (1989)
12	* ''Holy Smoke'' - (1992)
13	* ''Cascade'' - (1995)
14	* ''Alive Just for Love'' - (2001, LiveAlbum)
15	* ''Dust'' - (2002)
16	* ''Unshattered'' - (2004)
17	* ''Ninth'' - (2011)
18	* ''Lion'' - (2014)
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21	!! Peter Murphy provides examples of:
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23	* AlternativeRock
24	* AnswerSong: "The Answer is Clear" is a response to "The Movement of Fear" by former Music/{{Bauhaus}} bandmate Daniel Ash's band Music/TonesOnTail, which Peter believed to be about him. The song quotes the title of "The Movement of Fear" in the chorus and features Ash himself on guitar.
25	* CoverVersion:
26	** ''Should the World Fail to Fall Apart'': "The Light Pours Out of Me" by Music/{{Magazine}}, "Final Solution" by Music/PereUbu.
27	** ''Love Hysteria'': "Fun Time" by Music/IggyPop.
28	* ElectronicMusic: Dabbled in the ambient side with ''Cascade'' and the darker, {{Industrial}} side with ''Lion''.
29	* EpicRocking: Every song on ''Dust'' runs between 6:47 and 9:00.
30	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Ninth'' is his ninth album, including ''Alive Just for Love''.
31	* GothRock: A pioneer of the genre, though he has been mostly out of the style since the '80s, and since moving to Turkey he remains unaware of anything happening in the {{Goth}} subculture. 2014's ''Lion'' is his first GothRock-like release since Music/{{Bauhaus}}.
32	* {{Improv}}: Much of ''Lion'' was improvised. When it came time to tour the album, Peter questioned how he managed to sing so high.
33	* LargeHam: His singing style includes a near-operatic level of command, bravado and personality.
34	* LiveAlbum: ''Alive Just for Love''.
35	* OutOfGenreExperience: Peter raps for several measures halfway through and in the fadeout of Art Rock song "Shy".
36	* PoesLaw: "Canvas Beauty" talks about a man misinterpreting the actions of an actress.
37	-->''The actress' love that he mistook\
38	A siren love for his aging look''
39	* SelfBackingVocalist: Most of his records are sung entirely by him, excluding some female backing vocals on ''Cascade''.
40	* SequelSong: "The Line Between the Devil's Teeth" is a rewrite of the Music/{{Bauhaus}} song "In the Flat Field".
41	* SillyLoveSongs: Where a lot of his love songs are coated in poetry and gloom, "I'll Fall With Your Knife" is a sprawling, unambiguous declaration of love and devotion, while "Let Me Love You" has even less subtlety.
42	* TakeThat: "I Spit Roses" towards his former Bauhaus bandmates, taking its name from a situation where Peter spat roses into their faces while recording Bauhaus' ''Go Away White'' album.
43	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth:
44	** ''Cascade'' has a more ambient, sparse style following the dissolution of his backing band, The Hundred Men.
45	** ''Ninth'' is a stripped-down Rock album with simpler, more spontaneous compositions.
46	* TitledAfterTheSong: The Hundred Men, Peter's backing band until after the Holy Smoke tour, take their name from a line in "All Night Long":
47	-->''Ahh no hundred men now would dare cut into us''
48	* WindowsOfTheSoul: Indirectly referenced in "A Strange Kind Of Love", where he sings that the girl's eyes are "Like the doors to a wide, vast dominion, they open to your prize", implying her soul is beautiful as well.
49	* WordSaladLyrics: His songs often include really abstract metaphors, such as "Your head's a supernova" from "Deep Ocean, Vast Sea" and "Crush her velvet call" from "Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem."

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