He was born on May 25th 1952. After ground and intermediate he finished

technical high school. Played  acoustic guitars and joined bands since he

was 16. He started his solo career after the band "Tiny Folk" and was

discovered and produced from the popular radio DJ Eva-Maria Kaiser. In 1970

he won the Austrian TV competition "Showchance 70" performing his song

"Returned to Italy" under the artist's name ERIC.

Since then the Austro-American artist mixed up the international music

scene. He is named as the "..founder of the Austrian pop music..." in the

Austrian Pop Music  Cyclopaedia, which as he himself quotes a  rather

doubtful as factitious honor. Anyway having published hit songs like

Walking 'Round or Look At Me, Beautiful Garden, Carry Me and so on he also

wrote music for other singers and bands like Roger Whittaker, Bruce Is

Really Janice, and many more.

Eric Spitzer-Marlyn was defenitely the first in Austria, who made the

acoustic guitar and finger pick style fashionable in pop music. That is the

red line through all his records. His style and his very typical voice

turned into a trademark. He worked and played together with John Taylor,

Carlos Santana, Yoko Ono, Bruce Springsteen, Family Dog, Arlo Guthrie,

Marmelade, Jack Grunsky, and many more.

Today he writes mainly score music, develops movie sound designs or

produces other artists, favouring acoustic guitars and electronic minimal

music: 

Travelogue (P.Ratzenbeck), Stainless Steel (G.D.Gfrerer), RTL 3, Riddle

(Thomas Leeb), On the Water (Monika Stadler) as well as Harmonia

(Roedelius/Brian Eno/Rother/Moebius), Cluster , Hans-Joachim Roedelius and

others. Besides that Eric Spitzer-Marlyn is involved in many film projects

and has lectures at the Vienna University for Performing Arts, Dept.Film

and TV.

Discography (incomplete): Artist's name ERIC, ERIC MARLYN, ERIC

SPITZER-MARLYN

ARIOLA: (ERIC) Walking 'Round, Baby Dog, Look at Me, Run Down, Ev'ry Day,

I'm Everywhere, Salomay, Beautiful Garden, Erste Begegnung, Viele bunte

Steine, A Miracle,.... TELDEC/Prom: (ERIC MARLYN) Strassen von London, Man

wird langsam älter, Leonard, Auf den Strassen, ....  FAIRIES MUSIC/CBS:

Midnight Rider, He's gonna find you,...

A complete anouncement of all productions Eric Spitzer-Marlyn was involved

in since 1970 here is impossible.