Murray Head Music and Concerts
Murray Head is a popular British actor and singer widely recognized in the music industry for his hit singles during the 1970′s, including Superstar and One Night in Bangkok. His album Say Ain’t So was also massively popular during the music scene of the 1970′s, combining and representing his music ideologies as a new style of rock and new wave genres. Murray Head was mainly a vocalist but also played the guitar on several occasions throughout his career.
He was also very involved in several projects, collaborations, features and many other musical activities since the 1960′s when his career started to emerge after a decade later. Once he reached mainstream success, he continued to record and work on many albums, songs and other projects all the way the late 2000′s. Murray Head’s performances were highly praised due to his ability to combine very beautiful light effects, screens and optimal conditions in order to maximize the enjoyment of his fans, bringing along with him a very acquisitive and joyful atmosphere to any venue that he played anywhere in the world.
Murray Head was born in London in 1946 to an artistic family composed of actors, actresses and many other professionals that had a true artistic nature in the arts and music. One of the main interests and pastimes of Murray Head since early childhood was songwriting. He began to write many songs during his early childhood all the way to his adolescent years, where he developed his lyrics with the guitar and a true inherent talent within himself. By the mid 1960′s he was already offered a recording contract with a studio based in London.
But it was not until a few years later that his hit single Superstar brought him to mainstream success, mainly by the efforts of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Once Superstar ranked in the top 100 singles in the year 1971, Murray Head continued to record and appeared in many films including The Family Way and Sunday Bloody Sunday, in which the latter he received an Oscar nomination for his leading role as an excellent performer.
His main success was initially spread over Europe, particularly all over the UK, France and Ireland. The level of impact and influence that Murray Head had in the United States and in other parts of the world did not come as thorough as it did in Europe. However, it took some time for him to emphasize his level of experience within the scope of his music in order to reach other great audiences and fans, especially with his inherent ability to perform highly enthusiastic and driven concerts.
Murray Head’s past concerts were very simple and targeted to a very small number of fans in very small venues. Attendance was usually no more than 600 to 1,000 people for each concert, but as he continued along with his success, particularly during the 1980′s, he was able to fill up widely recognized venues in the United Kingdom, including the famous Brixton Academy in London and several other similar venues in France, with attendances up to 10,000 people. Many of the albums that he released during the 1990′s allowed him to travel to the United States and Canada to play in several other small venues compacted up to 8,000 to 10,000 fans for a full capacity. Many of his shows were constantly sold out and producers with promoters combined usually requested additional dates on the same venue in order to satisfy the demand for tickets to the show.
As his music developed more and more during the 1990′s and early 2000′s, Murray Head took the advantage of the current available technologies and placed elegant lights, curtains, screens and many other embellishments in his past concerts, to the point where it created a very beautiful and captivating atmosphere within the venue, thereby filling the demands of the fans to see their favorite singer perform with an excellent atmosphere full of great majesty and elegance. Murray Head’s past concerts also presented very energetic characteristics full of a great advantage towards the audience, fans were able to truly transcend the themes of the songs through Head’s improvisation, tone of voice and sentiment while singing; the ability to dance during the songs became even more feasible within the fans due to the melodic rhythms of the songs and melodies. Overall, the effect of the past and current concerts of Murray Head can greatly improve anybody’s mood whether they are a fan or not, that’s by far the most peculiar characteristic of Murray Head’s performances that are rarely seen in other similar artists of his time.
Some of the most recent concerts of Murray Head have been in several venues throughout France and in the United Kingdom, thereby specializing in his niche markets where most of his fans are located. Murray Head seldom programs himself for a long tour due to his number of fans throughout the world compared to other artists such as Madonna; therefore he has personally mentioned that he prefers to play his energetic and charismatic performances in small venues throughout his most important markets in order to give more to the fans in terms of quality of his music, diversity and not insignificant quantities of material played.
2012 is a very good year to catch one concert of Murray Head which will take place on Friday, August 17th during a music festival at Agen, France. Other future concerts and upcoming dates that have not been mentioned are likely to appear later throughout this year, focusing on the main cities of France and the United Kingdom, thereby giving you the chance to catch one or two concerts of Murray Head during your visit to Europe during the next two years.
For more information about Murray Head visit: http://www.murrayhead.com/
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