Martin Plaza

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Martin Plaza is the pseudonym of Martin Murphy, a musician with Australian band Mental As Anything, sometime solo musician and accomplished artist. Plaza was born Martin Murphy on the North Shore of Sydney in 1956. He attended St. Pius X at Chatswood, excelling in sporting and artistic pursuits but showing little interest in other subjects. After attending Hornsby Technical College he switched with fellow student Steve Coburn to what was then known as the East Sydney Technical College in Darlinghurst in the mid-1970s where he met Chris O'Doherty. Around this time he was working part time at KFC. With O'Doherty (later to be known as Reg Mombassa), Coburn and another student, David Twohill, he formed the rock band Mental as Anything in May 1976. The Mentals went on to become one of Australia’s most popular bands touring widely in Australia and overseas. Whilst not being as acclaimed an artist as Mombassa or Reg's brother Peter O'Doherty, he has certainly become quite prolific in recent years, holding numerous solo exhibitions working with a variety of media and has entered the Archibald Prize, notably with a self-portrait and a portrait of Mombassa. In the mid 1990s his artwork appeared on his own line of Dodgy brand clothing as well as his designs appearing on Mambo clothing. Many of his artworks have had a Hawaiian or Hula flavour. In the early days of the Mentals the band would often invent pseudonyms for each other that combined an exotic lastname with a common Australia

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Plaza Suite

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Andy's Chest

Concrete and Clay

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Australian Pop Of The 80's - Volume 2 - Live It Up - CD2

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The History Of Love

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Australian Pop Of The 80s Vol 2 - Live It Up

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Lullaby And Goodnight

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Home Made (The Best Of Australian Rock 'n' Pop)

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Razzle Dazzle - The Motion Picture Soundtrack

Plaza Suite (Deluxe Edition)

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Razzle Dazzle

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