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Gary Marx (born Mark Frederick Pearman) is a British guitarist and musician.
Marx was raised in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was a founding member of British rock band the Sisters of Mercy and its lead guitarist and songwriter from 1980 to 1985.
He left the band in 1985 to form Ghost Dance, which included ex-Skeletal Family vocalist Anne-Marie Hurst. They released two albums and embarked on a number of extensive tours enjoying relative success. However, record-company politics and inconsistency in personnel left the outfit reeling and they had disbanded by the end of 1989.
From 1997 to 2005, he worked as a teacher at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He subsequently released material as an independent artist through his own website and set up an archive for his previous band, Ghost Dance.
In 2003, Marx released his first solo album, Pretty Black Dots.
In 2007, he released the Nineteen Ninety Five and Nowhere album, with material originally written by him in 1995 for the Sisters of Mercy, at the invitation of Andrew Eldritch.
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Gary Marx, de son vrai nom Mark Pairman, est un guitariste britannique. Il est le cofondateur des groupes de rock gothique The Sisters of Mercy et Ghost Dance.
Cinq ans après l'avoir fondé avec Andrew Eldritch, Gary Marx quitte les Sisters Of Mercy en 1985 pour divergences musicales alors que l'album First and Last and Always vient de sortir et que le groupe se donne en concert un peu partout. Il est notamment le compositeur des titres First and Last and Always, Poison Door ou encore Some Kind of Stranger.
Après son départ, Gary forme le groupe Ghost Dance avec la chanteuse Anne Marie Hurst, qu'il a rencontrée en 1984 alors qu'elle jouait avec son groupe Skeletal Family en première partie du Black October Tour des Sisters Of Mercy. Ghost Dance sort plusieurs maxis et singles, un album et une compilation avant de disparaître début 1990.
Gary Marx a depuis sorti deux albums en solo, Pretty Black Dots en 2002 et Ninetineen Ninety Five and Nowhere en 2008, ce dernier étant composé de morceaux écrits pour The Sisters Of Mercy en 1995, mais sans réponse d'Andrew Eldritch, Gary Marx les chantera et les enregistrera seul sur le label Français D - Monic Records.
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Discography
Albums
- 2003 Pretty Black Dots
EPs
Singles
- 2003 Butter Fingers
