Murray Head

Murray Head is a British actor and singer, most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" (from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar), "One Night in Bangkok", and for his 1975 album Say It Ain't So. He has been involved in several projects since the 1960s and continues to record music, perform concerts and make appearances on television either as himself or as a character actor.

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber asked him to play Judas Iscariot on the original concept album version of Jesus Christ Superstar. With the Trinidad Singers, the song "Superstar" would peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971.

He made several lead roles in films and he released an album, Say It Ain't So Joe, in 1975. Head would appear in 1984 as the American on the concept album for the musical Chess. The song "One Night in Bangkok" featured Head on lead vocal. "One Night in Bangkok" was a major pop hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Head performed the role of world chess champion Frederick "Freddie" Trumper in the London West End stage production of Chess.

Head has released a number of albums in French, including the song "Une femme un homme", a duet with Marie Carmen, which was released in 1993 and became a radio hit in French-speaking Canada.

In 1999, Head co-wrote the screenplay to Les Enfants du Siècle. In Canada, he was part of the cast of the 2002 television mini-series Music-Hall, which played on the Radio-Canada network. In March 2010, he appeared in the BBC drama Doctors playing a pop singer, Pete Perry, trying to make a comeback, in which Murray sang Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain".

Music Videos

 * One Night in Bangkok
 * Pity the Child