Matthew Ellis - Matthew Ellis


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Vinyl L.P - Regal Zonophone / Columbia Records - 5C 064-92452 / 1 C 062-92 452.
1971 - Netherlands.

Cover design, photos (A. Powell), tinting: HIPGNOSIS.


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Matthew Ellis


Michael Andrew Cox
1948 - 2009


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  1. The Guardia.comJune 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM


    Michael Andrew Cox, editor, novelist (The Meaning Of Night) and musician, born 23 October 1948; died 31 March 2009.

    Born in Northamptonshire, he was educated at Wellingborough grammar school and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature. His musical career began at university.

    He made two albums for EMI under the pseudonym Matthew Ellis and another as Obie Clayton.

    His compositions are sometimes mistakenly attributed to Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum, because of some similarities of sound and a shared record label.

    As Cox himself put it: "I think the two albums I made as Matthew Ellis were a mixture between Elton John and Procol Harum. I was studying at Cambridge in 1969-70 and someone was making a film there, a real 'arty' black-and-white film, like a silent movie.

    I wrote some music for that and got a little band together to perform it. We played live as the film was being shown. There was a record producer in the audience called Jerry Dane, and he asked if I wanted to sign for a deal. So that was how I got to make the first Matthew Ellis LP.

    After that I played a few gigs on my own. But I didn't really like that, so I got a band together instead. That was more or less the group that later played on the Obie Clayton records."

    Before splitting, the Obie Clayton band recorded another album that never came out and some singles and, as Cox told a Procol Harum biographer in 1999, "there's tons of old stuff lying around on tapes; it's just that I'm now in my fifties and I don't know where to go with these things".

    Cox's days as a cool cat were by then a long time gone, but he continued to write music.

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