Jesus Christ Superstar (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Album by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Jesus Christ Superstar (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is a deluxe reissue of the rock opera album by Andrew Lloyd Webber, released in 2020. The recording fuses rock instrumentation with orchestral and theatrical arrangements, characterised by driving electric guitars, prominent piano and expressive vocal performances, and the anniversary edition situates the work within Lloyd Webber's early expansion of rock elements into musical theatre and its role in the development of the rock-opera format.

Jesus Christ Superstar (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) by Andrew Lloyd Webber - album cover

First released: 1st September 1970

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Disc 1

1.
Overture
3:58
2.
Heaven on Their Minds
4:22
3.
What's the Buzz / Strange Thing Mystifying
4:13
4.
Everything's Alright
5:14
5.
This Jesus Must Die
3:34
6.
Hosanna
2:08
7.
Simon Zealotes / Poor Jerusalem
4:47
8.
Pilate's Dream
1:28
9.
The Temple
4:43
10.
Everything's Alright (reprise)
0:29
11.
I Don't Know How to Love Him
3:41
12.
Damned for All Time / Blood Money
5:08

Disc 2

1.
The Last Supper
7:07
2.
Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)
5:35
3.
The Arrest
3:18
4.
Peter's Denial
1:28
5.
Pilate and Christ
2:43
6.
King Herod's Song (Try It and See)
3:02
7.
Judas's Death
4:15
8.
Trial Before Pilate
5:13
9.
Superstar
4:16
10.
The Crucifixion
4:06
11.
John Nineteen Forty-One
2:07

Disc 3

1.
Ascending Chords
0:22
2.
Damned for All Time / Blood Money (Guide vocal)
1:10
3.
King Herod's Song (Try It and See) [Guide vocal]
3:11
4.
I Don't Know How to Love Him (Tim Rice and Murray Head Vocals)
3:43
5.
I Don't Know How to Love Him (Murray Head Vocals)
3:43
6.
This Jesus Must Die (Scat Vocals 1)
1:08
7.
What a Party
1:52
8.
This Jesus Must Die (Scat Vocals 2)
1:07
9.
Heaven on Their Minds (instrumental)
2:50
10.
I Don't Know How to Love Him
3:43
11.
(Too Much) Heaven on Their Minds (German single)
4:37
12.
Strange Thing (Mystifying)
1:53
13.
John Nineteen Forty-One
2:32