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How Jesus Christ Became A “Superstar”
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005When Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber were writing their hit musical, they were stuck for a name. As told by Michael Coveney on pbs.org:
Tim had spotted a picture of Tom Jones with a caption that read: “Tom Jones, the World’s Number One Superstar,” and he thought, “Why not stick that in? And of course, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ is a brilliant title. We were a bit shocked about what we’d done, just as Andrew had been a bit worried about ‘Joseph [and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]‘ being too slangy. But of course, it was its being precisely that — slangy and funny — that made it work.”
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