Gary Marx is a lead-guitarist (b. Mark Pairman) who played with classic British goth band The Sisters Of Mercy from 1980 to 1985. He stepped out of the band in 1985 to form goth/pop/rock combo Ghost Dance, which included ex-Skeletal Family vocalist Anne-Marie Hurst. They Released two albums and embarked on a number extensive tours enjoying relative success. However, record-company politics and inconsistency in personnel left the outfit reeling and they disbanded by the end of 1989. The Sisters of Mercy are a band that emerged out of the British post punk scene in 1980-1981. ... Ghost Dance was a guitar pop/goth/rock band formed in 1985 by Gary Marx (ex-The Sisters Of Mercy guitarist) and Anne-Marie Hurst (ex-Skeletal Family vocalist) as both were leaving their respective bands. ... Anne-Marie Hurst was the lead vocalist for the groups Elementary, Skeletal Family, and Ghost Dance. ...
In the early nineties he signed up as a teacher at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.
He currently is releasing material as an independent artist through his own website and has set up an archive for his previous band Ghost Dance.
Gary T. Marx is Professor Emeritus from M.I.T. He prvesiously held professorships at Harvard University and the University of Colorado.
Marx has been a research associate at the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies and Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Center, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1987-88; 1996-97) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1997-98).
Marx was named the American Sociological Association's Jensen Lecturer for 1989-1990.