Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970- #47: “Superstar”- Murray Head with The Trinidad Singers. January 31, 1970.
- Single: ‘Superstar”- Murray Head
- Record Company- Decca Records
- Genre: Musical
- Written by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber
- Time: 4:10
- B-side:” John Thirteen Forty-One”
- Album- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Grade: B
- Peaked at #74- and #14 and spent 31 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100.
Note on this single- when originally released in 1970 it peaked at #74, a year later it reentered the Hot 100 and went to #14- that was in early 1971. All totaled it spent 31 weeks in the Hot 100.
Born Murray Seafield St.George Head in London, Murray Head a pop singer- actor who in 1970 appeared in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar- from which “Superstar”was taken. He has had 2 Hot 100 hits- and they were both Top 40 hits- “Superstar” #14 and “One Night In Bangkok” #3 in 1985. Murray Head- 73 today is still active in music and working in film as a character actor.
This (and The Sesame Street album) were the first two LPs I ever bought. Strange combo but I played the HELL out of both of them.
Head was a long time between hits… yes a strange combo but nothing wrong with that!
You may have seen my comment at Max’ site about Ian Gillian of Deep Purple singing the role of Jesus on JC Superstar…