本周要介紹一首1985年獲得過第3名的歌 ,Murray Head 主唱的 (One Night In Bangkok)。
1946年3月5日出生於英國倫敦的 Murray Head。是一位流行歌手/演員。
曾參與1970年搖滾概念專輯《耶穌基督超級巨星》( Jesus Christ Superstar )的錄製。在1971年電影《星期天，血腥星期天》(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)中擔任男主角。
(One Night In Bangkok) 取材自 ABBA 合唱團成員 Benny Andersson 與 Bjom Ulvaeus 作曲，Ulvaeus 和英國音樂劇作詞家 Tim Rice 填詞的一齣搖滾樂舞台劇《西洋棋》(Chess)中。與《耶穌基督超級巨星》( Jesus Christ Superstar )和《艾薇塔》(Evita)等其他知名作品一樣，為了籌集資金，在首演前發行了一張非常成功的概念專輯。就《西洋棋》(Chess)而言，概念專輯於1984年秋季發行，而該劇於1986年在倫敦西區開演，並在那裡演出了三年。在英國廣播公司第二台 BBC Radio 2 聽眾評選的英國「頭號必看音樂劇」中，《西洋棋》(Chess)則名列第七。
《西洋棋》的發行和上演正值強勢反共產主義運動（後來被稱為「雷根主義」）的頂峰時期 ，它批判並諷刺了20世紀80年代國際政治氛圍的敵意。
(One Night In Bangkok)這首歌於1985年二月底推出後獲得Billboard Hot 100 排行榜第3名。是1980年代值得回味的一首名曲。
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok (Long Video Version) 1984
儘管歲月流逝，這部作品依然堪稱大師之作！
One Night In Bangkok - Single Version
Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know that the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time
flies doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
It's Iceland or the Philippines
or Hastings or
Or this place!
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're
lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really
such a pity
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
Whaddya mean?
Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Get
thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and
ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
Siam's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral
fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
And thank God I'm only watching the game controlling it
I don't see you guys rating
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
I'd
let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your temples
Your massage parlours
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The
bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man
humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
