Martin Duffy

Martin Bernard Duffy (18 May 1967 – 18 December 2022) was an English musician who played keyboards with Felt and Primal Scream.

Career Duffy was born in Birmingham and grew up in Rednal in the southwest of the city, attending St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School in King's Norton, and growing up listening to punk rock, as well as two-tone, the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

Duffy joined the indie rock band Felt as keyboard player in 1985. and contributing keyboard parts to the band's fifth album Tellin' Stories.

In 2004, Duffy was a member of "rock supergroup" the Chavs with Tim Burgess and Carl Barât of the Libertines. He also contributed to recordings by Heidi Berry, Beth Orton, Paul Weller, Shack and the Chemical Brothers, and released a solo album Assorted Promenades in 2014.

Personal life and death Duffy died on 18 December 2022, at age 55. The cause of death was given as a brain injury suffered after a fall at home in Brighton.

Primal Scream released a statement that included "We're all so sad ... Martin was the most musically talented of all of us. (He) could play piano to the level where he was feted not just by his peers in British music, but old school master American musicians such as James Luther Dickinson, Roger Hawkins, David Hood (and) producer Tom Dowd".