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.
Although tonight they got a heavy metal treatment which might have even raised the eyebrows of Stevie Wright, the Easybeats rocker who played Simon Zealotes in the original Australian production of 1972. 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 Introducing your Newsfeed Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
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