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Matthew Edward Murphy (born 23 July 1984) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of The Wombats, which he co-founded in 2003. He began a solo career under the name Love Fame Tragedy in 2018.

Matthew Edward Murphy was born in the Woolton suburb of Liverpool on 23 July 1984, the son of a mother who works for Liverpool City Council and a father who teaches engineering. He has said that he "didn't come from money, but didn't have very humble beginnings either". He began playing the guitar at the age of five, primarily at the behest of his father. He was educated at Liverpool College in the neighbouring suburb of Mossley Hill, where he "smoked a lot of weed all the time and played in a lot of weird bands" and just barely managed to pass his A-levels. He later studied music at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), where he met his future Wombats bandmates. He joined his first band at the age of 13. He began suffering from depression and anxiety as a teenager, and was prescribed antidepressants after experiencing severe panic attacks at LIPA. He later detailed his issues with the medication in the song "Anti-D".