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
To Know Him Is to Love Him July 1963 for the "Pop Go The Beatles" radio show and was not officially released until 1994, on their "Live at the BBC" compilation album. John Lennon recorded his own version of the song in 1973 ("To Know Her Is to Love Her"), but it would not see release until the 1986 posthumous compilation "Menlove Ave." Dodie Stevens recorded a version for her 1961 album "Pink Shoelaces". The Shirelles recorded a version which appeared on their 1964 compilation "The Shirelles Sing the Golden Oldies ". British rock star Gary Glitter recorded a version on his second studio album "Touch Me"