Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok "From CHESS" (Official Video)

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Channel: ChessVEVO

Views: 17,290,621

Rating: 4.8509793 out of 5

Keywords: Murray, Head, One, Night, In, Bangkok, Polar, Musical, Chess – The Musical, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Tim Rice, Murray Head One Night In Bangkok, Murray Head Vevo

Id: rgc_LRjlbTU

Length: 3min 57sec (237 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/TheLastMongo]

I’m sorry. I have to make this comment as a shout out for a friend who says it every fucking time the song comes on. To the point where if it plays around me and my wife one of us will just say the first three words to crack each other up because we’ve heard it so often.

Did you know he’s the brother of Anthony Stewart Head from Buffy?

[u/[deleted]]

Written by the boys from ABBA. Check out his own tune Say It Aint So Joe too (and Daltrey's awesome cover of it).

[u/lkmyntz]

This song is also in the excellent musical, Chess.

[u/gargravarr2112]

Always loved the delivery of his lyrics.

"Get Thai'd!" You're talking to a tourist / Whose every move is among the purest - I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine!

I'd let you watch / I would invite you / But the queens we use / Would not excite you.

[u/DJ_Spam]

Murray Head
artist pic

Murray Seafield Saint George Head (b. 1946) is an English actor and singer.

Head was born on the 5th March 1946 in London, his parents being Seafield Head, a documentary-maker, and Helen Shingler, an actress. His younger brother is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Little Britain star Anthony Stewart Head.

Head began acting and writing songs as a child, and by the mid-1960s had a London recording contract. He had limited success (although some of his early singles now appear on mod/psych compilations, enjoying a cult status) until he was selected by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber to play Judas Iscariot on the original album version of Jesus Christ Superstar. At around the same time he won a leading role in the Oscar-winning Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), alongside Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson. Despite these successes, he received little public attention in the next ten years (save for 1975's Say It Ain't So Joe), reappearing in the spotlight in 1984 as the star of the musical, Chess. The song "One Night in Bangkok", from Chess, featuring Head on lead vocal, became a radio hit.

After his 1984 hit "One Night In Bangkok", Head has had little attention internationally. Fluent in French, he has released some albums in that language, notably the song "Une femme un homme", a duet with Marie Carmen released in 1993 which became a radio hit in French-speaking Canada.

Some of his most recent work was in Luc Plamondon's musical comedy Cindy, in which he played Cindy's father.

Head is currently playing a character on ITV's Heartbeat. Read more on Last.fm.

last.fm: 164,080 listeners, 922,687 plays
tags: 80s, pop, new wave, british, male vocalists

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[u/subsetsum]

Background http://mentalfloss.com/article/31022/music-history-1-one-night-bangkok

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[u/Snoringdragon]

Saw Chess in England on a school field trip from Canada. Jet lagged teen trying to stay awake, wanting to see this, ended up loving it without remembering anything but the song and people moving around a giant chess board as the pieces. Surreal memory!

[u/Krimreaper1]

Conan I remember this video but have t seen it in decades I misremembered who recorded it. Still catchy though.