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Spider Murphy Gang
München, Germany • b. 1977-01-01
Spider Murphy Gang is credited on 91 releases across 21 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1980–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
91
Pressings credited
21
Albums
5
Decades active
7
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Biography
The Spider Murphy Gang is a German rock band from Munich best known for their greatest hit "Skandal im Sperrbezirk", which is a famous song of the Neue Deutsche Welle. It was founded in 1977 by bank clerk Günther Sigl, together with Gerhard Gmell ("Barny Murphy"), Michael Busse and Franz Trojan. Elements of the Bavarian German dialect are used in many songs. Their name is a reference to Elvis Presley's song, "Jailhouse Rock", in which a 'Spider Murphy' played the tenor saxophone. "Spider Murphy" is also referred to in a song written by Larry Kirwan of the Irish fusion Band Black 47's song, "Forty Deuce." The song appears referential to both the Spider Murphy Gang and to "Jailhouse Rock", for the live version from 2006's "Bittersweet 16" includes a saxophone solo which the singer recalls having heard in Sing Sing prison.
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Credited work
91 releases · 21 albums · active 1980–2025
- Performance · 47
- Production · 46
Studios: Rainbow Studios · EMI Electrola Studio II · EGE Sound Studio · Die Börse, Wuppertal
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