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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
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  • Sy2nd

    Fantastic artist. Saw him in concert in 1983 and he was rocking. He did the human cannon ball trick and it was classic. Say it ain't so was the best of course but the whole concert just rocked. He even went walking through the crowd and all went wild. Love all his songs.

    March 2012

  • zjatteke

    I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

    February 2012

  • backtothelight

    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!

    July 2011

  • Starlita

    'A gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur' OST is brilliant! =)

    May 2011

  • eightiespopfan

    18 May 1985:"One Night in Bangkok" hits #3. www.eightiescarnival.blogspot.com

    May 2011

  • Kejlo4ka

    I Love him. He's great singer.

    March 2011

  • Lorelei_94

    One Night In Bangkok Class song!

    January 2011

  • oisinmac

    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.

    September 2010
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