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Jesus Christ Superstar (album)

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Studio album by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice
Released	October 1970
Genre	Rock
Length	86:56
Label	Decca Records/MCA Records
Producer	Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The album is a musical dramatisation of the last week of the life of Jesus Christ, beginning with his entry into Jerusalem and ending with the Crucifixion. The album's story is based on the Gospel according to John. However, greater emphasis is placed on the interpersonal relationships of the major characters, in particular, Jesus, Judas and Mary Magdalene. The album reached #1 on the Billboard chart in 1971 and served as a launching pad for numerous stage productions on Broadway and in the West End.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Disc one
- 1.2 Disc two
2 Miscellanea
3 Credits
4 References
5 See also

Track listing

All compositions written by Tim Rice (lyrics and book) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (music).

Disc one

"Overture" – 3:56
"Heaven on Their Minds" – 4:21
"What's the Buzz/Strange Thing Mystifying" – 4:13
"Everything's Alright" – 5:14
"This Jesus Must Die" – 3:33
"Hosanna" – 2:08
"Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem" – 4:47
"Pilate's Dream" – 1:26
"The Temple" – 4:40
"Everything's Alright" – 0:30
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" – 4:07
"Damned for All Time/Blood Money" – 5:07

Disc two

"The Last Supper" – 7:06
"Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)" – 5:32
"The Arrest" – 3:20
"Peter's Denial" – 1:27
"Pilate and Christ" – 2:43
"King Herod's Song (Try it and See)" – 3:00
"Judas' Death" – 4:14
"Trial Before Pilate (Including the 39 Lashes)" – 5:12
"Superstar" – 4:15
"Crucifixion" – 4:01
"John Nineteen: Forty-One"^[1] – 2:04

Miscellanea

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The original demo tapes for the album (according to Tony Bramwell, a Beatles assistant) featured John Gustafson on bass and were offered to the Beatles' Apple Records label for release. It only really went into consideration because the Beatles knew Gustafson from a band variously known as Cass and the Casanovas and the Big Three from Liverpool that they used to know. Bramwell claims that people could be heard singing the title track around the offices all the time. Unfortunately, Apple's business affairs were in a sad state at this time and still being sorted out by Allen Klein, so the album slipped through the cracks. Bramwell has a theory that when employee Peter Brown (who now works for Lloyd Webber) left the company to join Robert Stigwood, he took the tapes with him and that is how Stigwood got interested. Bramwell doesn't feel the tapes were a big loss, because no one was doing anything with them; as for the show and the writers, however, he does wish Apple kept them, because it would have kept the company afloat well into the 1980s were Lloyd Webber and Rice to have had the same success they did.
It is believed that the above true story was what started the rumor that John Lennon had been offered the role of Christ in the actual production of the show, which at that time was slated for St. Paul's Cathedral in London and then titled simply Jesus Christ. Some "reputable" newspapers also claimed that Lennon backed out because his controversial wife, Yoko Ono, was not allowed the role of Mary. The truth is that a newspaper called Tim Rice and asked him how he'd feel about John Lennon playing Jesus, and Rice was amiable; that same newspaper then called Lennon, who said he was up to it. A big headline was thus made out of nothing. When Rice and Lloyd Webber had to perform damage control, they stated that they had chosen not to use Lennon because they didn't want him to divert attention from the part to himself. Other similar "star casting" rumors were spreading around, such as the rumor that Marianne Faithfull was to play Mary Magdalene. While Rice and Webber did seek big name stars for some roles (among others, Mick Jagger and David Cassidy were considered), none were ultimately chosen (unless you count Ian Gillan, and the artist below).
Paul Raven, born Paul Gadd, later became famous as Gary Glitter.
Seafield St. George is a combination of Murray Head's middle names; he added background vocals later in the process.
During recording of the thirty-nine lashes sequence, Tim Rice complained that the lashes sounded too soft, and they needed something rougher. Someone volunteered that it was because the studio was padded that the sound was too soft. "Then let's do the bloody thing in the hall!" Rice is reported to have exclaimed. They set up microphones out in the hall for the background vocalists to provide crowd noises while Rice counted (it's his voice you hear on the recording) and did the lashing on the floor using a board with a smaller board hinged onto it.
After the concept album was recorded, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice discovered, to their horror, that a small part of Pilate's dialogue had been erased from the master tapes. Barry Dennen was no longer available, so Murray Head stepped in and recorded the vital missing words "this un-for-tu-nate" on the album.
At one point, the writers/producers could no longer afford to pay the singers for their session work, so they started offering a percentage of the royalties as payment. Many people (while skeptical, because they were unsure of the record's potential success) took the royalties, save for Yvonne Elliman, who was advised by her agent not to do it because he thought the album would be a dud. Asked later on, she said, "If I had taken the royalty, I'd be... $100,000 richer right now."
However, another source claims that Murray Head was the only one who took the royalties; this, too, is contradicted by an interview with Brian Keith in which he says he took the royalty option after listening to the album during final mixing, and that he still makes money from it because the album still sells a lot.
Ian Gillan sang parts of "Superstar" with Deep Purple in several live performances. One of these performances (as part of the song "Strange Kind Of Woman") was captured on the live album In the Absence Of Pink (Knebworth 1985).
On their late-2005 tour of Japan, rock band Weezer covered the song "I Don't Know How to Love Him" as "I Don't Know How to Love Her."
Industrial music group Laibach has recorded an album called Jesus Christ Superstars which includes a cover of "Superstar".
In the original stage production, after Judas betrays Jesus, the Pharisees tell Judas, "What you have done will be the saving of Israel." But in the 1973 film--which was made in Israel shortly before the Yom Kippur war--the line is changed to "What you have done will be the saving of everyone." Some later productions used the original line.[1]
On their 2007 covers album "Take Cover" metalband Queensryche included a cover of "Heaven On Their Minds".

Credits

Main Players

Supporting Players

Annette Brox - Maid by the Fire
Paul Raven - Priest
Pat Arnold - Background vocals
Tony Ashton - Background vocals
Peter Barnfeather - Background vocals
Madeline Bell - Background vocals
Brian Bennett - Background vocals
Lesley Duncan - Background vocals
Kay Garner - Background vocals
Barbara Kay - Background vocals
Neil Lancaster - Background vocals
Alan M. O'Duffy - Background vocals
Terry Saunders - Background vocals

Choir conducted by Geoffrey Mitchell
Children's choir conducted by Alan Doggett on "Overture"
The Trinidad Singers, under the leadership of Horace James, on "Superstar"

Musicians

Bruce Rowland - drums, Percussion
Allan Spenner - bass guitar
Henry McCulloch -electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Neil Hubbard - electric guitar
Peter Robinson - piano, electric piano, Organ, positive organ
Chris Mercer - tenor sax

Other musicians

Harold Beckett - trumpet
Anthony Brooke - bassoon
James Browne - horns
Jim Buck, Sr. - horns
Jim Buck, Jr. - horns
John Burdon - horns
Joseph Castaldini - bassoon
Norman Cave - piano
Jeff Clyne - bass guitar
Les Condon - trumpet
Alan Doggett - principal Conductor
Ian Hamer - trumpet
Ian Herbert - clarinet
Clive Hicks - guitar
Carl Jenkins - piano
Frank Jones - trombone
Bill LeSage - drums
John Marshall - drums
Andrew McGavin - horns
Anthony Moore - trombone
Douglas Moore - horns
Peter Morgan - bass guitar
Chris Spedding - guitar
Louis Stewart - guitar
Chris Taylor - flute
Steve Vaughan - guitar
Brian Warren - flute
Mick Weaver - piano, organ
Andrew Lloyd Webber - piano, organ
Alan Weighall - bass guitar
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet
Keith Christie - trombone
Strings of the City of London Ensemble

References

^ Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.