Martin Duffy
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Martin Duffy (1967 – 2022) was an English keyboardist who originally played with Felt and most famously with Primal Scream where he can be heard on "Loaded" (1990).
Career
Duffy was born in Birmingham and grew up in Rednal in the south of the city, attending St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School in King's Norton, and growing up listening to punk rock, as well as two-tone, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
Duffy joined the indie rock band Felt as keyboard player in 1985. Felt frontman Lawrence later recalled "I put up notices in Virgin in Birmingham advertising for a guitarist saying 'Do You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star?' I'd put two up when this guy came up to me and said, 'I know this keyboard player. He's 16. He's just left school."
Duffy played keyboards on Primal Scream's first two albums, and joined the band permanently after Felt disbanded at the end of 1989.
Duffy also played with The Charlatans following the death of founding member Rob Collins, appearing with the group at Knebworth supporting Oasis in 1996 after learning all the group's songs in three weeks and contributing keyboard parts to the band's fifth album Tellin' Stories.
In 2004 he was a member of "rock supergroup" The Chavs with Burgess and Carl Barât of The Libertines. He also contributed to recordings by Heidi Berry, Beth Orton, Paul Weller, Shack (band) and the Chemical Brothers, and released a solo album Assorted Promenades in 2014. His soundtrack work included the films The Laughing King (2016) and Wild Rose (2017).
