Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login It concerns the most famous story in Western civilisation, so even though I had never seen Jesus Christ Superstar before tonight, it felt like I already knew it. It would be difficult not to know most of the songs, at least a handful of which have become standards since Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice released them as a concept album in 1969.
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