Any Dream Will Do (song) as a single by Jason Donovan, who was then playing Joseph in the West End production of the musical at the London Palladium. The single topped the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in June and July 1991; in July, it was certified Gold by the BPI for sales greater than 400,000 copies. In Donovan's native Australia, "Any Dream Will Do" peaked at number 92 on the ARIA Singles Chart in August 1991. The song was also a number-one hit in Ireland and reached number three in Austria. The song was also performed by "The X Factor" duo Same Difference,
Harvey Lisberg was rejected by Mickie Most as a Herman's Hermits single, but Lisberg nevertheless signed the duo to a development deal when he heard their sketches for a musical called "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat". At the time there were no takers for the sketches, but the show, which morphed into a pop cantata written for schools and then became a concept album before being staged on the West End and later as a Broadway production, has since exceeded all original expectations. As Sir Tim Rice put it: Lisberg managed Wayne Fontana after he left the Mindbenders, allowing guitarist Eric