Talk:Jesus Christ Superstar (album)

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 * All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 17:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Release of the Album
I thought this album was released on October 1970. All dates on my records point to this. Where is May 1971 coming from? --Carlosmnash 06:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Not sure. I'll change it. --Fantailfan 12:19, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the cover
I had taken a scan of the libretto, cropped and texturized it to look like the original (1970) cover. --Fantailfan 12:21, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Fantailfan, for correcting the date! I was getting a little worried that I didn't know my JCS history as well as I thought I did. --Carlosmnash 06:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Ben Vereen
I was wondering why Ben Vereen has not been credited for singing on "Everything's Alright" with Yvonne Elliman? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Maybe because... he didn't ?Andrew G. Doe (talk) 15:31, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

About Bruce Rowland
The drummer on the album was Bruce Rowland. There are 2 Bruce Rowlands in the Wikipedia, an Australian composer and a drummer (the latter has no page). This page redirects to the composer, but I think it should be the second one. Somebody who knows better should check this out. --ODDin 14:25, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Guitarist
I've heard rumors that the Steve Vaughn credited on the album as a guitarist is Stevie Ray Vaughn. Anyone know anything about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.16.174.166 (talk) 22:03, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:00, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

WWE fact

 * "WWF wrestler Don Muraco used "Superstar" as his entrance music as "The Rock" Don Muraco."

This really is terrifically trivial. If anything, it would be best noted in the article Don Muraco. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 13:13, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Gospel of John

 * This album is actually based on all four canonical gospels. The book of John is specifically referenced, but it is not the only source for the story. - 11:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Various albums/versions
As a boy I listened to a J.C.S. vinyl LP in a college library. I loved the versions and performances. I myself have three CDs of JCS, but none is the right one. And I have sampled practically every version on iTunes (as of today), and NONE of them is the version I heard and loved! I think the article, or some article, should mention the numerous versions out. And if someone is an EXPERT or might have a clue why I cannot find the right album on iTunes – it is out of print? was it never digitized? it is hung up by some legality – please let me know! (Message me.) I have been searching iTunes for a couple of years now, and, well, none sound like the version I heard, which from what I can tell is probably the best version overall. I just cannot understand why so many versions are out that might actually be AW's official releases, but the one I like the most isn't to be found. It just boggles the mind. I found this link, which lists dozens of RELEASES, but there's no way I can figure it out from that: http://www.discogs.com/master/79753 I doubt the library still has LPs or that old copy in particular. THANKS! Misty MH (talk) 13:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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Paul Raven = Gary Glitter
Paul Raven, who sang the part of the priest, was an early stage name of Paul Gadd, better known as Gary Glitter. I couldn't decide where to add this in the page, perhaps someone more experienced in Wiki could help. Pollythewasp (talk) 10:24, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

50 th Anniversary Remaster, 2021
Is this worth noting? Released as 2 CD set covering the original album and a 3 CD set adding outtakes. Both versions available from Amazon and on various streaming providers. Agbneill (talk) 18:20, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

NPOV issues and inaccuracies - certified sales and inflated gold ratings in US, UK, and Canada
In the US: The certified units/sales are listed as 4,500,000 in the US, yet it is only certified as gold by the RIAA. The source given for certified units/sales is a 1978 issue of Billboard. I read the small article cited, which was about the London West End play (not the album). In that article is a statement (almost in passing) that the album had sold that many copies in the US, but there is no mention of certified sales. I think we all know the difference between reported sales and certified sales. 4,500,000 certified sales in the US is enough for 4x platinum, not gold. Even more importantly, the article does not say whether it is referring to the original album, the film soundtrack, or both combined. That can't be the certified sales figure, because the RIAA (US certifying body) website still has it certified as gold, and it explicitly gives the figure of 0.5 million certified units. In any case, the Billboard source does not describe the figure as certified sales, on which gold & platinum ratings are based.

In the UK: The album referred to in the cited source is clearly listed as the soundtrack album from the film, with the release date given as "01.03.74", clearly not the album discussed in this article. Certified sales are given as 180,000, but again the source for that figure is that same short article about the West End play in Billboard that was used as the source for the US figure of 4,500,000. Again, the article mentions that figure but does not mention any certification, nor does it specify whether that refers to the original album, the later movie soundtrack, or both combined. BPI needs to be removed as the source, and the album's gold status in the UK needs to be removed, but I was not able to navigate the editing necessary to remove that source from the table. BPI has no record of certifying anything for this album, only the film soundtrack that was released over 3 years later.

In Canada: The source given for gold status in Canada (Music Canada) does not list this album at all, nor does it list the film soundtrack album. The WP List of certified albums in Canada does not list either album. None of these sources, nor anything I could find, says the album went gold in Canada. In the 1973 Billboard source given to support the certified units/sales figure, the article (4 sentences long) says the MCA label announced the film soundtrack album had "achieved Canadian gold status" after "moving" 50,000 units, but there doesn't seem to have been any organization making that assertion other than the label itself, which is not a gold certification. In any case, that was the film soundtrack album, not this album, which at the time was reported in the same article to have sold 300,000 units, not 350,000, as stated in our article, and there is nothing to state the album in this article was ever certified gold by anyone. (At the time, it seems the labels in Canada were in the habit of awarding themselves Gold Leaf and Platinum Leaf album awards - see the Cashbox cit for the Dutch Gold award, same page, top right article on BTO's 3 Gold Leaf albums and 2 Platinum Leaf albums. Not certified, just self-awarded.)

Elsewhere: The numbers of certified units/sales all seem to come from Billboard, Cashbox, or other trades, not from any certifying body. Maybe that column should be relabeled as reported sales instead of certified units/sales, and corrected for errors regarding the film soundtrack. Nothing in that column appears to represent certified units or sales as reported by the certifying bodies.

I think these are serious errors that represent a WP:NPOV issue, as if to inflate the number of gold awards (certainly UK and Canada) and sales figures, and I hope someone who understands how to edit these tables will correct the citations and the data in the table. Thanks. Dcs002 (talk) 04:28, 14 December 2023 (UTC)