Martin Duffy Obituary

Martin Duffy was an English keyboardist best known for his work with Felt and Primal Scream. Duffy was born in Birmingham and grew up in Rednal, a suburb in the city’s south.

Duffy played keyboards on Primal Scream’s first two albums and became a permanent member of the band after Felt disbanded at the end of 1989.

Duffy also appeared with The Charlatans after the death of founding member Rob Collins, supporting Oasis at Knebworth in 1996 after learning all of the band’s songs in three weeks  and contributing keyboard parts to the band’s fifth album Tellin’ Stories.

Duffy would also work on the soundtrack to the 2018 film Wild Rose with Beth Orton, Steve Mason, Mark Stewart of the Pop Group, Chemical Brothers, Paul Weller, Vic Godard, Subway Sect, and Jessie Buckley.

In 2014, Duffy released Assorted Promenades on Burgess’s O Genesis label, which included music dating back to 1997.

Chaosmosis, Primal Scream’s most recent studio album, was released in 2016. Duffy also appeared on frontman Bobby Gillespie’s collaborative album Utopian Ashes, released in 2021.

Martin Duffy died at the age of 55 on 18 December 2022. According to his bandmate Bobby Gillespie, the cause of death was a brain injury caused by a fall at his home in Brighton.