The performances arranged by his father were always humiliating song and dance numbers, usually with feathered costumes and tap shoes, including one performance in which Murdoc was forcibly dressed up as Pinocchio and sang 'I've Got No Strings'. The local pub had a routine talent show called the 'Are You A Star?' talent contest that Murdoc was often forced to participate in so he could win his father's drinking money. Murdoc got back at Tony by calling him a lot of offensive and extremely harsh names, calling him a 'useless, bloated backward waste of space who'd probably get a job of holding up 'For Sale' signs on the corner of streets only to then get himself fired and replaced by a bucket of soil' and that 'a pissed monkey would stand a better success of life', which resulted in Tony punching Murdoc in the nose, breaking it. Murdoc was also bullied at school by a boy named Tony Chopper. Gravadlax described Murdoc as 'an appalling student' and 'a stupid imbecile who often turned up smelling of whisky'.

His father, Sebastian Jacob Niccals, (or Jacob Sebastian Niccals, depending on who's asking) was a spiteful drunk of a man who often verbally abused and exploited his sons.ĭuring his childhood years, Murdoc attended Sodsworth Comprehensive School where he gained a reputation for his pranks, ugliness, poor personal hygiene and bad behavior. It has been proposed that his many addictions and his sour attitude were due to his abusive childhood. Murdoc went on to a very abusive childhood. Although the exact whereabouts were never verified, it was rumoured that his mother gave to birth him at the Belphagor Sanatorium, a halfway house for 'the sick, the needy and the incredibly bored.'Īs an infant, he was dumped on the doorstep of his father's house one night and was discovered by him as he was returning home from the pub. Murdoc Alphonse Niccals was born in Stoke-On-Trent on June 6th, 1966.

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