Career
He also had a long-standing professional and personal relationship with Freddie Mercury. He first shot to fame in 1968 when he starred as Hud in the original London production of Hair. Straker has starred in countless West End productions since, including Pete Townsend"s Tommy, Ken Hill"s The Original Phantom of the Opera, Hot Stuff, Blues in the Night, The Rocky Horror Show, The Rat Pack, One Love and Holding On.
Both with Ruby Turner.
His classical roles include Cassius in Julius Caesar at Bristol Old Vic, and Lucio in Measure for Measure at the National Theatre. Straker also originated the title role of Nosferatu in the British premiere production of Bernard J. Taylor"s musical at the Eastbourne Hippodrome in 1995.
Recently he reprised his role in The Wiz with Birmingham Representative, and starred in The Hackney Empire"s Cinderella, The Landor Theatre"s The Glorious One"s and returned to the Edinburgh Festival with a brand new musical show, Peter Straker"s Brel which later played at the Street James Theatre in London. More recently, Straker has performed in The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in a concert performance of Piaf with The Matthew Jones Orchestra.
Hair (musical) Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (1968) The Alan Parsons Project: I Robot (album) (1977) Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (music video) (1987) Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé: Barcelona (album)" (1988).