What is Dave Murray (musician)?
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{BLP unsourced|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Dave Murray | Img = Dave Murray 30nov2006.jpg | Img_capt = Dave Murray, during a show in [[Barcelona]] (A Matter of Life and Death World Tour). | image_size = | Landscape = | Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | Alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|12|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Edmonton, London, England | death_date= | Instrument = Guitar | Genre = [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]] | Occupation = Musician, songwriter | Years_active = 1975–present | Label = [[EMI]] | associated_acts = [[Iron Maiden]], Urchin, Hear 'n Aid, Stone Free, Electric Gas, Legend, The Stuff, Evil Ways }} '''Dave Murray''' (born '''David Michael Murray''' on 23 December 1956 in Edmonton, London, England) is one of the three guitarists in the British [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band, [[Iron Maiden]]. Murray has been with Iron Maiden since 1980. == Career == Murray is considered the second original member of Iron Maiden along with the founder [[Steve Harris]]. He has played on every album since its debut in 1980. However, Murray joined in 1976, just two months after they formed in 1975. He was forced to leave the band that year by the vocalist Dennis Wilcock, but returned months later. His solos are characterized for being fluid and clean, making rapid progress note after note through techniques that use the right hand using especially a lot of ''Hammer and tapping'', based on the legato technique. A characteristic in live performance is the vocalization which makes while playing fast parts, as if singing at the same time than playing his [[Fender Stratocaster]]. == First years == David Michael Murray was born on 23 December 1956 in Edmunton, England. Dave's mother often worked part-time at a bar, because his father was at a young age retired consequence of a disease. The money for the maintenance of the house came irregularly. The frustration and poverty took their parents to a continuous fighting which ca