Nigel Lived

1972

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Released in 1972, 'Nigel Lived' is Murray Head's first solo LP. It's a concept album, using pages of a diary as the basis of the songs. The album artwork even included pages of the fictitious diary, along with the lyrics. The story is the journey of an actor who leaves his small hometown and comes to the big city to find fame and fortune, and the two different sides of the album describe first his success and then failure as his life falls apart.

Many of the musicians who played on 'Nigel Lived' went on to have very successful careers, including Cozy Powell, Peter Giles, Jimmy Hastings, Tony Coe and Ray Cooper.

Murray Head: This was my first solo record. I was obsessed with recording natural sounds and wanted to do a film in sound. As the idea developed I found it veering naturally toward an autobiography. I also felt the need to separate the subjective from the objective. I decided on the concept of a songwriter who finds a diary and writes songs around various lines and phrases he chooses from it - so dealing with the inside and the outside of my head at the same time.