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Murray Seafield Saint George Head (born March 5, 1946) is a British actor and singer.
He was born in London, his parents being Seafield Head, a documentary-maker, and Helen Shingler, an actress. His younger brother is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Little Britain star Anthony Stewart Head.
Head began acting and writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s had a London recording contract. He had limited success until selected by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to play Judas Iscariot on the original album version of Jesus Christ Superstar. At around the same time he won a leading role in the Oscar-winning 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 a radio hit.
After his 1984 hit “One Night In Bangkok”, Murray Head has had little attention internationally. Fluent in French, he has released some albums in that language. 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 is currently playing a character on ITV’s Heartbeat
He was born in London, his parents being Seafield Head, a documentary-maker, and Helen Shingler, an actress. His younger brother is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Little Britain star Anthony Stewart Head.
Head began acting and writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s had a London recording contract. He had limited success until selected by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to play Judas Iscariot on the original album version of Jesus Christ Superstar. At around the same time he won a leading role in the Oscar-winning 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 a radio hit.
After his 1984 hit “One Night In Bangkok”, Murray Head has had little attention internationally. Fluent in French, he has released some albums in that language. 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 is currently playing a character on ITV’s Heartbeat
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Phlunked wrote:
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner...
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backtothelight wrote:
Came back to post on this lastFM profile after the many discouraging comments on Youtube's video of this re: that OTHER version of One Night In Bangkok being "superior". The singer of which will remain nameless. Happily there's nothing of that ilk here. Here's to you Murray Head!
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Starlita wrote:
'A gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur' OST is brilliant! =)
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eightiespopfan wrote:
18 May 1985:"One Night in Bangkok" hits #3. www.eightiescarnival.blogspot.com
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Kejlo4ka wrote:
I Love him. He's great singer.
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Lorelei_94 wrote:
One Night In Bangkok Class song!
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oisinmac wrote:
Searched for his track "She Was Perfection"...i came up with "She Was Perfection" by Murray Head, 2:47, and "Murray Head" by She Was Perfection, 2:47. Think the recordkeeping got it a little garbled. Can understand how it might have happened tho...I have Winamp as my media player, and when I scan this song with their AutoTag function, it also wants to change my metadata to show it as :Murray Head", by She Was Perfection.
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Phlunked wrote:
Makes you proud to be a chess player.
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tripodthunder wrote:
I get my kicks above the waistline... sunshine. :<0
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GokKum wrote:
no post in 2010. how popular ^^
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TessaWW wrote:
Murray Head is NOT a one-hit-wonder. All his other music is just too much underrated. I have every album he ever recorded and I think it's a right shame that he is only remembered for that shitty Bangkok song!
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Rainha_Lupa wrote:
First music I ever heard when I was 6 (my father listened to his first record Say It Ain't So)
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Vanilla-villa wrote:
LEARN TO SPELL BANGKOK kthxbai
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coanta wrote:
i love ”one night in BANGKOK!”
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NecroDancer86 wrote:
Say it ain't so Joe!!
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draco2111 wrote:
lol :) One night in Bangkok is a great song!
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Bluke4x4 wrote:
Aw, i thought his name was a reference to Monkey Island
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luisadeza wrote:
I love the Say It Ain't So album!
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Phees wrote:
amazing music
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nerdork wrote:
His Nigel Lived concept album is a trip.5.
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