Murray Head was born on the 5th of March 1946 in London. His
father, Seafield Head, now retired, was a documentary film writer, director and
producer, his mother, Helen Shingler, was a successful actress. He was sent to
the Lycée français in London at the age of 4 and remained there till he was 10
years old. After signing his first record deal at 17 with EMI, Murray began his
film carreer in 1965 in Roy Boulting's "The Family Way" playing the
role of Hywell Bennett’s brother. The film also starred Hayley Mills. After a
film with Brigitte Bardot and "Romeo & Juliette" in 1968, he was
in "Hair" at the same time as recording the role of Judas in
"Jesus Christ Superstar". He left Hair to film John Schlesinger’s
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" with Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson. Throughout
the late seventies and the eighties Murray concentrated on making records,
namely "Between Us" (1979), "Voices" (1981),
"Shade" (1983), "Restless" (1984) and "Sooner or
Later" (1987), all of which have "gone gold". He followed these
up by touring with his band around europe with increasingly elaborate shows. It
was at one such a show in the Dominion in London that Benny Anderson and Bjorn
Ulvaes of ABBA saw Murray and asked him to perform in their forthcoming musical
"Chess" that they were recording in Polar studios in Sweden. This led
to the single "One night in Bangkok" which was no.1 in 12 countries,
and got to no.3 in America. He played the lead role of Freddie Trumper for 9
months on stage with Elaine Page.Listen song here:YouTube
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