Mark Moffatt, Mythical Australian Guitarist and Manufacturer, Dies at 74
Mark Moffatt, the Australia-born, Nashville, TX-based guitarist, manufacturer and engineer who labored on recordings by way of a long-list of impressive acts, from The Saints to Keith Urban, Tim Finn, Yothu Yindi and lots of others, died Friday (Sept. 6) following a year-long fight with pancreatic most cancers. He used to be 74.
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Few Australian creatives can supremacy Moffatt’s ends up in the studio. Moffatt used to be chargeable for extra tracks than some other alternative unmarried manufacturer within the APRA Supremacy 30 Australian songs, an inventory printed in 2001 to praise the PRO’s seventy fifth yearly. And he produced a important 15 ARIA Corridor of Popularity inductees.
Hailing from Maryborough, Queensland, he moved to Brisbane, next relocated to the U.Ok. to paintings on London’s Denmark Boulevard for a number of years. When he discovered himself again in Brisbane in 1976, Moffatt slotted himself at the back of the table generating The Saints’ “(I’m) Stranded,” a tune that lit the powder keg that used to be the punk scene.
Manufacturing stints with EMI and TCS Studios in Melbourne paved a method to Sydney in 1980, the place Moffatt joined Pageant Information as in-house manufacturer, running on one of the greatest names in Australian tune for greater than a decade.
It used to be Moffatt who championed a tender Keith City and produced Yothu Yindi’s crash “Treaty,” escape a “rich catalog of success and an incredible legacy on the Australian and the global stage,” reads a observation from ARIA. “Mark gave life to sounds that defined generations.”
Transferring to Nashville in 1996, Moffatt used to be APRA AMCOS’ inaugural Nashville member members of the family consultant from his appointment in 2014, till he retired from the function in June 2024. Right through his occasion there, he used to be awarded the CMA International Fulfillment Award.
The past due tune guy “is without a doubt a legend of our industry and more importantly, a kind and wonderful person to have known,” reads a observation from APRA AMCOS.
On the occasion of his demise, Moffatt used to be placing the completing touches on an copy for KILO, a band he shaped with Australian rock singer John “Swanee” Swan.
“As much as Moffatt loved his music, his first love was his family,” reads a statement on his social web page. He’s survived by way of his spouse, Lindsey, step-daughter Dana and two granddaughters, his son Geordie, and prolonged people in Australia.
A birthday party of his date is being deliberate, with main points to be equipped sooner or later.