Mark Moffatt, the Australia- birthed, Nashville, TX-based guitar player, manufacturer and designer that worked with recordings by a long-list of crucial acts, from The Saints to Keith Urban, Tim Finn, Yothu Yindi and several others, passed away Friday (Sept 6) adhering to a year-long fight with pancreatic cancer cells. He was 74.
Few Australian creatives can cover Moffatt’s lead to the workshop. Moffatt was in charge of even more tracks than an additional various other solitary manufacturer in the APRA Top 30 Australian tunes, a listing released in 2001 to commemorate the PRO’s 75th wedding anniversary. And he created an exceptional 15 ARIA Hall of Fame conscripts.
Hailing from Maryborough, Queensland, he relocated to Brisbane, after that moved to the U.K. to work with London’s Denmark Street for a number of years. When he located himself back in Brisbane in 1976, Moffatt slotted himself behind the workdesk making The Saints’ “(I’m) Stranded,” a track that lit the loose cannon that was the punk scene.
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Production jobs with EMI and TCS Studios in Melbourne led a method to Sydney in 1980, where Moffatt signed up with Festival Records as internal manufacturer, servicing a few of the greatest names in Australian songs for greater than a years.
It was Moffatt that promoted a young Keith Urban and created Yothu Yindi’s hit “Treaty,” leaving a “rich catalog of success and an incredible legacy on the Australian and the global stage,” reviews a declaration from ARIA. “Mark gave life to sounds that defined generations.”
Moving to Nashville in 1996, Moffatt was APRA AMCOS’ inaugural Nashville participant connections depictive from his consultation in 2014, up until he relinquished the function in June 2024. During his time there, he was granted the CMA Global Achievement Award.
The late songs guy “is without a doubt a legend of our industry and more importantly, a kind and wonderful person to have known,” reviews a declaration from APRA AMCOS.
At the moment of his fatality, Moffatt was placing the completing discuss a cd for KILO, a band he developed with Australian rock vocalist John “Swanee” Swan.
“As much as Moffatt loved his music, his first love was his family,” reviews a statement on his social web page. He is made it through by his better half, Lindsey, step-daughter Dana and 2 granddaughters, his boy Geordie, and prolonged family members inAustralia
A party of his life is being prepared, with information to be provided eventually.
