This song was used in the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It had never been released as a single before in the UK, but when Jason Donovan played the lead role in a 1991 West End production, they decided to release this track as a single. When it topped the UK charts, it became the only #1 for an artist from a show in which he appeared.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice originally wrote Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for an Easter concert at their school in 1967. They extended the show, and its first London production opened at the Albery Theatre in 1973.
The song references Joseph's abilities as a dream interpreter ("any dream will do") and the loss of his coat of many colors ("My golden cloak flew out of sight, The colors faded into darkness"), a gift his father bestowed upon him in Genesis 37:3 for being his favorite son. We learn more about these plot points in the songs "Joseph's Dreams" and "Joseph's Coat."
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