In the 1990s, Martin Duffy wrote music history as a keyboard player for bands such as Primal Scream and The Charlatans. Now the musician dies at the age of just 55 from the effects of a fall in his hometown of Brighton.
The keyboardist of the Scottish cult band Primal Scream, Martin Duffy, is dead. His “soul brother” died, frontman Bobby Gillespie said on Instagram.
The 55-year-old musician fell at his home in Brighton, southern England, and died on Sunday as a result of a severe brain injury. Duffy appeared on all of the group’s albums. “He lived to laugh and to make music,” wrote Gillespie. “He was loved by all of us at Scream.”
Tim Burgess, who played with Duffy on The Charlatans, previously broke the news. Following the recent news of the death of Specials singer Terry Hall, Burgess wrote of Duffy, “Another death of a beautiful soul.” He then dedicated several tweets to his former bandmate.
Martin Duffy was part of the Scottish indie rock band Primal Scream from the very beginning and played on the first two albums “Sonic Flower Groove” (1987) and “Primal Scream” (1989). But the band, whose name means “primal scream” in German, celebrated their big breakthrough in 1991 with “Screamadelica”. From that time on, Duffy was a core member and thus a permanent fixture alongside singers Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Robert “Throb” Young, who died in 2014. The last Primal Scream album “Chaosmosis” was released in 2016. Duffy also worked on Gillespie’s solo album “Utopian Ashes”.
