Label: Decca Broadway (Germany), 5339271
Style: Rock Opera
Country: London, England (22 March 1948)
Time: 43:53, 43:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 312, 306 Mb
Webber and Rice had earlier success with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Then, according to Webber, the Dean of St Paul's, Martin Sullivan, suggested they do the story of Jesus next. "Tim and I rather resisted it," Webber said, "but then Tim came up with this interesting angle. What if we told the story from Judas Iscariot's perspective?"
Lyrics in the 1964 Bob Dylan song "With God on Our Side" resonated with Rice: "You'll have to decide / Whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side." Another inspiration was an advertisement showing Tom Jones dressed in white with the word 'SUPERSTAR' emblazoned across him.
Rice and Webber wrote the title song, Superstar, first, in July 1969. Webber explained, “It was agreed that we would first sort of ‘send up a flag' to see whether the public would accept our approach to the subject." They spent the next four months producing the single. They wrote the rest of the songs from November 1969 to March 1970.
The album's story is based in large part on the Bible and Fulton J. Sheen's Life of Christ. Rice said, "I used the King James and Catholic versions - whichever was handier - interchangeably. My biggest aid was Fulton Sheen's Life of Christ, in which Bishop Sheen calibrates and compares the Gospels." However, greater emphasis is placed on the interpersonal relationships of the major characters, in particular, Jesus, Judas and Mary Magdalene, relationships that are not described in depth in the Gospels.
"Herod's Song" is a lyrical rewrite of "Try It and See", previously written by Lloyd Webber and Rice as a proposed British entry into the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 to be sung by Lulu, then recorded and released as a single by Rita Pavone. The writers had also included it (as "Those Saladin Days") in an aborted show about Richard the Lionheart called Come Back Richard Your Country Needs You.
The melody of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" also predates Jesus Christ Superstar; it was rewritten from a 1968 Lloyd Webber/Rice collaboration titled "Kansas Morning".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar_(album))
01. Overture (03:59)
02. Heaven On Their Minds (04:22)
03. What's The Buzz - Strange Thing Mystifying (04:13)
04. Everythings All Right (05:14)
05. This Jesus Must Die (03:34)
06. Hosanna (02:09)
07. Simon Zealotes - Poor Jerusalem (04:47)
08. Pilate's Dream (01:28)
09. The Temple (04:43)
10. Everything's Alright (00:29)
11. I Don't Know How To Love Him (03:40)
12. Damned For All Time - Blood Money (05:10)
01. The Last Supper (07:08)
02. Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say) (05:35)
03. The Arrest (03:18)
04. Peter's Denial (01:28)
05. Pilate And Christ (02:44)
06. King Herod's Song (Try It And See) (03:02)
07. Judas' Death (04:15)
08. Trial Before Pilate (Including The 39 Lashes) (05:13)
09. Superstar (04:15)
10. Crucifixion (04:06)
11. John Nineteen Forty-One (02:07)
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