James Murphy: soundtrack of my life

The former LCD Soundsystem frontman on the Velvet Underground, Bowie and Can, and what made him first want to make musicBorn in New Jersey in 1970, James Murphy spent his formative years playing drums in a series of low-profile rock bands and working as a sound engineer. Success didn't come until his early 30s when he formed LCD Soundsystem and started exploring how the punk and krautrock influences of his youth would sound in a dance music context, creating classic tracks such as Losing My Edge...

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