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Billy Murcia (Bogotá, 9 de octubre de 1951 - Londres, 6 de noviembre de 1972) fue un músico nacido en Colombia y criado en Jackson Heights, Queens, reconocido por haber sido el baterista original de la banda de glam rock The New York Dolls.
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Billy Murcia (October 9, 1951 – November 6, 1972) was an American musician who was the original drummer for the New York Dolls. Biography. Murcia was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and raised in Jackson Heights, New York, United States. He and Sylvain Sylvain both attended Quintano's School for Young Professionals, in the late sixties.
Nadie recuerda a Billy Murcia, el baterista colombiano de New York Dolls. 20/Nov/2020. Historias. En el sótano de su casa en Queens, este músico y diseñador de modas bogotano ayudó a fundar la banda que influenció, musical y estéticamente, a The Ramones, Kiss, Sex Pistols y Morrissey. Perfil póstumo de una excitante vida breve.
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Formation
Sylvain Sylvain and Billy Murcia, who went to junior high school and high school together, started playing in a band called "the Pox" in 1967. After the frontman quit, Murcia and Sylvain started a clothing business called Truth and Soul and Sylvain took a job at A Different Drummer, a men's boutique that was across the street from the New York Doll Hospital, a doll repair shop. Sylvain said that the shop inspired the name for their future band. In 1970 they formed a band again and recruited J...
Record deal: 1972–1975
Once back in New York, the Dolls auditioned drummers, including Marc Bell (who was to go on to play with Richard Hell, and with the Ramones under the stage name "Marky Ramone"), Peter Criscuola (better known as Peter Criss, the original and former drummer of Kiss), and Jerry Nolan, a friend of the band. They selected Nolan, and after US Mercury Records' A&R man Paul Nelson signed them, they began sessions for their debut album. In 1972, the band took on Marty Thauas manager. New York Dolls wa...
Dissolution: 1975–1976
By 1975, the Dolls were playing smaller venues than they had been previously. Drug and alcohol abuse by Thunders, Nolan, and Kane, as well as artistic differences added to the tensions among members. In late February or early March, Malcolm McLaren became their informal manager. He got the band red leather outfits to wear on stage and a communist flag as backdrop (communist chic). The Dolls did a five-concert tour of New York's five boroughs, supported by Television and Pure Hell. The Little...
According to AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the New York Dolls developed an original style of hard rock that presaged both punk rock and heavy metal music, and drew on elements such as the "dirty rock & roll" of the Rolling Stones, the "anarchic noise" of the Stooges, the glam rock of David Bowie and T. Rex, and girl group pop music. Erle...
According to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1995), the New York Dolls were "one of the most influential rock bands of the last 20 years". Writer Sean Sennett credited the band as a part of a legacy of raunchy, influential rock bands predated by the Rolling Stones, and succeeded by Aerosmith and Hanoi Rocks and eventually Guns N' Roses. By the t...
Studio albums
Chart placings shown are from the Billboard 200US Albums chart. 1. New York Dolls(1973 US:#116) 2. Too Much Too Soon(1974 US:#167) in UK:#165 3. One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This(2006 US:#129) 4. Cause I Sez So(2009 US:#159) 5. Dancing Backward in High Heels(2011)
Demo albums
1. Lipstick Killers – The Mercer Street Sessions 1972(1981) 2. Seven Day Weekend(1992) 3. Actress – "Birth of the New York Dolls"(2000) 4. Endless Party(2000) 5. Private World - The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972–1973(2006)
Live albums
1. Red Patent Leather(1984) 2. Paris Le Trash(1993) 3. Live In Concert, Paris 1974(1998) 4. The Glamorous Life Live(1999) 5. From Paris with Love (L.U.V)(2002) 6. Morrissey Presents: The Return Of New York Dolls Live From Royal Festival Hall(2004) 7. Live At the Filmore East(2008) 8. Viva Le Trash '74(2009) 9. French Kiss '74(2013)
New York Dolls at AllMusicNew York Dolls discography at DiscogsNew York Dolls at IMDb- New York City, U.S.
- 1971–1976, 2004–2011
27 de jul. de 2023 · Murcia, only 19, was at a London party when he passed out from a combination of champagne and Mandrax (England’s version of the Quaalude). In an attempt to revive him, he was put in a bathtub and force-fed coffee, which wound up drowning him.
Billy Murcia - Carleso.com. 6 noviembre 2022 5 comentarios. Billy Murcia tenía 21 años cuando viajó en 1972 de Nueva York a Londres con The New York Dolls. Era su primera gira por Europa, sinhaber grabado aún ningún disco.
15 de jul. de 2018 · Billy Murcia, a first-generation immigrant from Columbia was the drummer, Sylvain Sylvain, whose parents were Egyptian Jews, was the guitarist, with Johnny Thunders, who was from an Italian family ...
