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VIA PRESS RELEASE | Before making his eleven albums, Peter Murphy founded Bauhaus. After the band’s breakup in 1983, he teamed up with Japan’s former bass player Mick Karn to form Dali’s Car. Beggars Arkive is excited to announce a 5-disc box set celebrating his first five albums: Should The World Fail to Fall Apart, Love Hysteria, Deep, Holy Smoke, and Cascade, all containing numerous bonus tracks.
The box, capturing the first ten years, is simply titled Peter Murphy 5 Albums and it will be released in the US on July 6th. Each album features bonus tracks consisting of period rarities including original demos, single B-sides, early and alternate mixes, and many previously unreleased recordings Including “Critic’s Choice,” “Groovy Place,” “Sail On White,” and a full band take on “Cool Cool Breeze.”
This set also features many production roughs of Peter’s final album for Beggars Banquet, the sublime Cascade, including a stunning seven minute plus early take of the title track, appearing here under its working title of “Satin Nights.” This five CD set is packaged in a hard-cover book and is a fitting tribute to the first decade of Peter Murphy as a solo artist.
Peter will also embark on his long-awaited three-week residency at The Chapel in San Francisco, where he will perform these seminal albums in their entirety alongside three special Ruby anniversary Bauhaus shows. The very special guest for those three shows is original Bauhaus bassist David J.
