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Not so hot on ‘why’
That other opera singer is getting awestruck again by Ian Gillan’s take on Gethsemane
Read more »Intensely quiet
Elizabeth the opera singer (a.k.a. the lady who forgot about singing more than all of will ever know) analyses Gillan’s take on Gethsemane. I’m very familiar with this song and have seen it performed many times, but have never seen nor heard the original with none other than Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan! This is going […]
Read more »Bring your flight jackets
Ian Gillan was interviewed for the Palm Beach Post in anticipation of resuming the touring activities in Florida later this month. If there is one thing that is true about Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan, it’s that not everything he says is true. “Somebody once asked me, ‘Are you a truthful person?’ I said yes […]
Read more »See the saga through
A 50th anniversary edition of Jesus Christ Superstar is due to be released on September 17, 2021. Yep, that’s the original London cast with Big Ian. (Hmm, that’d be 51st anniversary then, right?) It will come as a 3CD box set with 100-page hardcover book, the fairly standard 2LP and 2CD editions, and a 2LP […]
Read more »Judas, Jesus, and Mary
Australian site Urban Cinefile has a longish backstory for the creation of Jesus Christ Superstar, as told by Andrew Lloyd Webber himself: Work started on the album of JCS in early 1970. Murray Head would be our Judas but who would play Jesus and Mary? Tim and I were total unknowns so we couldn’t do […]
Read more »Heaven on their minds
Heaven on Their Minds: The Creation of Jesus Christ Superstar is a documentary about the original London cast of the album (they call it the Brown Album), which has been in on-and-off production for a couple of years now. The last update (March 27) from the producer Megan Park says: Next, we are meeting Shannon […]
Read more »JCSS remaster
The ‘original studio cast’ album of Jesus Christ Superstar (yes, the one with Gillan) is about to be released in remastered form in the UK on Decca Broadway label. Release date has been set for July 16. It is a straight copy of the original album, no bonus material.
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