Peter Murphy

Murphy co-founded the band Bauhaus, which was extant from 1978-1983. His bandmates formed Love and Rockets, which he launched a successful solo career, often performing Bauhaus songs at his concerts. Bauhaus got back together for a tour in 1998, then split again until 2005, when they regrouped for more tours, playing their last shows in 2006. They made an album in 2008 called Go Away White, which was their last collaboration. In 2013, Murphy played all Bauhaus songs on a tour he called Mr. Moonlight, named after their song "Who Killed Mister Moonlight?" No other members of Bauhaus were involved.

His lyrics can be rather inscrutable; he once described them as "journeys into impossiblities and the discovery of ideas to do with a human and his dealings with himself." Speaking with Songfacts, he said: "Many are often prescient accounts and subconscious expressions of a desire."

He starred in the original British print and TV commercials for Maxell cassette tapes as part of their "Break The Sound Barrier" campaign, where he clings to a chair as the sound creates a windstorm. In America, the ads were re-created with someone else.