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Dave Murray
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English guitarist
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Dave Murray, born David Michael Murray on December 23, 1956, in London, is a British male musician. He is a member of the band Iron Maiden and plays the guitar. His work period began in 1972, and he is associated with the heavy metal music genre.
Open Library lists seven works under the name Dave Murray, including *Flags of the World Sticker Atlas*, *Old Macdonald's Farm*, and *Noah and the Animals*. Crossref records five works for this name. Last.fm data indicates that the name is tagged with "Avant-Garde" and "avantgarde." TMDb lists a birthday of December 23, 1956, and a place of birth including Edmonton and London, England, with a department in Acting. MusicBrainz data for a person named Dave Murray lists Canada as the country, with genres including Canadian, country, pop, and soft rock, and identifies the gender as female.
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Edmonton, London, England
Dave Murray is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known as one of the original members of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He joined the band just two months after their inception in 1975.
Known for
- Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition — Self2026
- Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer — Self (archive footage)2025
- Iron Maiden - Hellfest 2023 — Guitar2023
- Iron Maiden: The Future Past in Amsterdam — Guitar2023
- Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls - Live Chapter — Guitars2017
- Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls - Live Chapter — Guitar2017
- Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls - Live at Wacken Open Air 2016 — Guitar2016
- Iron Maiden: [2016] New York, NY — Guitars2016
- Iron Maiden: Download Festival 2016 — Guitar2016
- Iron Maiden - Rock am Ring 2014 — Guitars2014
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- David Michael Murray , ( 1956-12-23 ) 23 December 1956 (age 69) , Edmonton , Middlesex , England
- Genres
- Heavy metal hard rock
- Occupation
- Guitarist
- Years active
- 1975–present
- Member of
- Iron Maiden
- Formerly of
- Urchin Hear 'n Aid
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Murray
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- heavy metal music
- Instrument
- guitar
- Image
- Dave Murray 30nov2006.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dave Murray
- date of birth
- 1956-12-23
- member of
- Iron Maiden
- birth name
- David Michael Murray
- name in native language
- Dave Murray
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
David Michael Murray (born 23 December 1956) is an English guitarist, best known as a member of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He joined Iron Maiden early in its history, and is the second-longest serving member of the band after founder Steve Harris. He and Harris are the only members of Iron Maiden to have appeared on all of the band's studio albums.
Growing up in London, Murray became interested in rock music at 15 and formed his first band Stone Free with neighborhood friend Adrian Smith. He regularly answered advertisements seeking guitar players in Melody Maker, before first auditioning for Iron Maiden in 1976. After a brief hiatus, Murray rejoined Iron Maiden in 1978 and remains with the band to the present day.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dave Murray” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.