Murray Head

Murray Head (2013)

Murray Seafield Saint-George Head (born March 5, 1946 in London ) is a British actor and singer .

Life

Head is the son of the British documentary filmmaker Seafield Head (1919-2009) and the actress Helen Shingler (1919-2019). His younger brother is the actor Anthony Stewart Head .

Head began acting and writing songs as a teenager. In the mid-1960s he received a recording deal in London . However, his success was initially rather moderate.

His breakthrough came in 1970 when Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber hired him to play Judas Iscariot in their musical Jesus Christ Superstar . In 1971, he starred alongside Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson in the four Academy Award nominees Sunday, Bloody Sunday by John Schlesinger . In 1975 he recorded the song Say It Ain't So Joe , which was a popular insider tip, especially on the radio.

Despite a few roles and record releases, Head disappeared from the public eye for more than ten years. In 1984 he celebrated a successful comeback as the star of the musical Chess penned by Tim Rice and the former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus . The song One Night in Bangkok from the musical conquered the top of the international charts and finished in January 1985 and in Germany two weeks number 1 of singles charts.

Murray Head's music deals primarily with interpersonal issues and does not ignore political statements. However, the texts are never eye-catching, but always describe your topic from a personal point of view. The most striking feature of his music is the very versatile voice, which offers many forms of expression both in pitch and articulation.

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

I Don't Know How to Love Him / Superstar (Yvonne Elliman & Murray Head)   UK 47 01/29/1972 (1 week)   US 14th 05/29/1971 (31 weeks) One night in Bangkok   DE 1  gold 12/17/1984 (21 weeks)   AT 2 02/01/1985 (12 weeks)   CH 1 01/06/1985 (16 weeks)   UK 12 11/03/1984 (16 weeks)   US 3 May 18, 1985 (20 weeks)

Albums

• 1972: Nigel lived
• 1975: Say It Ain't So
• 1979: Between Us
• 1981: Voices
• 1981: Find the Crowd
• 1983: Shade
• 1984: Restless
• 1987: Sooner or Later
• 1992: Wave
• 1993: Innocence
• 1995: Pipe Dreams
• 2000: Innocence (re-release of the album Wave )
• 2002: Passion
• 2007: Tête à tête
• 2008: Rien n'est écrit
• 2010: Scrapbook (3 live CDs and a DVD in one box)
• 2012: My Back Pages

Compilations

• 1990: Watching Ourselves Go By
• 1995: When You're in Love
• 2005: Emotions, My Favorite Songs

Awards for music sales

Silver record  France 1985: for the single One Night in Bangkok Golden record  Canada 1981: for the album Say It Ain't So  New Zealand 1985: for the single One Night in Bangkok

Platinum record  Canada 1985: for the single One Night in Bangkok

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	silver1	-	-	200,000	infodisc.fr
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	platinum1	150,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	-	7,500	nztop40.co.nz
All in all	silver1	3 × gold3	platinum1

Filmography (selection)

• 1971: Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• 1976: Madame Claude and her gazelles (Madame Claude)
• 1988: The tall blonde on free feet (À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur)
• 1996: Beaumarchais - The Insolent (Beaumarchais, l'insolent)
• 2004: D-Day decision in Normandy
• 2008: Milk and Honey (Revivre) (TV movie)

Web links

• Official website ( Memento of December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Murray Head on Find Your Music
• Murray Head in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Murray Head in the German charts
2. ↑ Murray Head in the Austria Charts
3. ↑ Murray Head in the Swiss charts
4. ↑ Murray Head in the Official UK Charts (English)
5. ↑ Yvonne Elliman & Murray Head in the Official UK Charts (English)
6. ↑ Murray Head on the Billboard Hot 100