I Don't Know How to Love Him I Don't Know How to Love Him "I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics), a torch ballad sung by the character of Mary Magdalene. In the opera she is presented as bearing an unrequited love for the title character. The song has been much recorded, with "I Don't Know How to Love Him" being one of the rare songs to have had two concurrent recordings reach the Top 40 of the Hot 100 chart in "Billboard" magazine, specifically those
I Don't Know How to Love Him album to be produced by George Martin. Black revealed in her 2003 autobiography "What's It All About" how she had worked so hard to produce the song which she loved but as her record label EMI Records were having industrial action the album was delayed a year. The singer went on to explain "Disappointed though I was, there was at least a crumb of comfort for me when Tim Rice hailed my recording as 'the definitive version'." Also in 2003, Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote for the booklet of Black's compilation album "The Best of 1963–78" "Her version of 'I Don't