The grieving wife of visionary INXS manager Chris Murphy has paid tribute to the meteor of a man who died aged 68 just days after he was diagnosed with cancer.
The legendary music manager, who helped steer INXS to global success, was surrounded by family when he died at home in Ballina, northern NSW, on Saturday.
Caroline Paidasch-Murphy described her late husband as exhausting, tireless and irreplaceable on Sunday, admitting that she isn t sure what [she] will do without him . I ve lost my best friend and never felt more alone, she wrote alongside an old, grainy photograph of Murphy sitting in an empty theatre.
R.I.P. INXS Manager C.M. Murphy
INXS manager C.M. Murphy has died at the age of 66. He was suffering from Mantle Cell Lymphoma.
Chris (C.M.) Murphy managed INXS from 1979 to 1995 and from 2008 to 2012. He also managed Models in the 1980s. His company Murphy Media Academy (MMA) was started by his father Mark Murphy in Wollongong in 1960. Mark died when Chris was 16. Chris took over the running of the company with his mother.
C.M. Murphy took over the management of INXS in 1979 from Gary Morris who also managed Midnight Oil and decided to concentrate on The Oils. Murphy brokered a direct signing with US label ATCO, bypassing the Australian company and in 1983 set-up an MMA office in New York.