Murray Head
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Murray Seafield Saint George Head (born March 5, 1946) is a British actor and singer.
He was born in London to Seafield Head, a documentary-maker, and Helen Shingler, an actress. His younger brother is Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head.
Head began acting and writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s he had a London recording contract. He had limited success until asked by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to play Judas Iscariot on the original album version of Jesus Christ Superstar (singing the hit "Superstar"). At about this time he won a leading role in the Oscar-nominated Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), alongside Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson. Despite these successes, he received little public attention in the next ten years (save for Say It Ain't So Joe from 1975), reappearing in the spotlight in 1984 as the star of the musical, Chess. The song "One Night In Bangkok", from Chess, featuring Head on lead vocal became the last significant Broadway/West End number to be a hit on American radio to date.
After his 1984 hit "One Night In Bangkok", Murray Head had little attention in the UK. But, fluent in French, he has released quite a lot of albums in that language and is more popular in France and Canada. Noticeably, the song "Une femme un homme", a duet with Marie Carmen released in 1993 became a radio hit in French-speaking Canada.
Some of his most recent work was in Luc Plamondon's musical comedy "Cindy" where he played Cindy's father.
Murray Head has guest starred in The Bill and Casualty and Judge John Deed.
Murray Head played an artist called Jack Hollins on ITV's Heartbeat from 2005-2006.
[edit] Discography
- 2007 - Tête à Tête
- 2005 - Emotions, My Favourite Songs
- 2002 - Passion
- 2000 - Innocence (reedition of Wave)
- 1995 - Pipe Dreams
- 1995 - When You're In Love
- 1993 - Innocence
- 1992 - Wave
- 1990 - Watching Ourselves Go By
- 1987 - Sooner Or Later
- 1984 - Restless
- 1983 - Shade
- 1981 - Find the Crowd
- 1981 - Voices
- 1979 - Between Us
- 1975 - Say It Ain't So
- 1972 - Nigel Lived
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Say It Ain't So (2002) Duet with Michael Jones, from 'Autour de la Guitare' by Jean-Félix Lalanne.
SDF/Homeless (2000) With Touré Kounda
Dime Que No (1998) With Tahures Zurdos, Spanish version of "Say It Ain't So"
Manjani (1998) Duet with Sam Mangwana, from "Galo Negro"
Là-bas (1998) Duet with Lio, from"Ils Chantent Goldman"
L'Aziza (1998) From "Ils Chantent Balavoine"
La Cabane Du Pêcheur (1998) From "Ils Chantent Cabrel"
Tout Tout Pour Ma Chérie (1998) From "Ils Chantent Polnareff"
Chanteur De Jazz (1998) From "Ils Chantent Sardou"
SOS World (1996) From "Les Enfants du Futur"
We're The UFO (1986) From the musical "Time"
Some People (1986) Picking Up The Piece (1985) Extended version
Running Back For More (1985) Les Crados (1985) EP, music only
One Sided Love (1979) From "Dear Anyone"
Woman I Love You (1978) B-side to the single "Mademoiselle"
Don't Have To (1975)
Dunes (1974) From "Raindog" by Stomu Yamashta
The Monks Song (1974) From "Raindog" by Stomu Yamashta
Rainsong (1974) From "Raindog" by Stomu Yamashta
Secondhand Monday (1967)
She Was Perfection (1967)
Someday Soon (1967)
You Bore Me (1967)
Colours (1966)
It Ain't Me Babe (1966)
All I Want To Do (1966)
You'Ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (1966)
Alberta (1965)
Bells Of Rhymney (1965)
Don't Sing No Sad Songs For Me (1965)
He Was A Friend Of Mine (1965)
Cocaïne (1965)
Leaving () Lyrics by Murray Head/vocals by Navah
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