Andrew Lloyd Webber

Biography

Andrew Lloyd Webber is arguably the most successful composer of our time.

He is best known for stage and film adaptations of his musicals _Jesus Christ Superstar.

Country
United Kingdom
Gender
Male
Education
Magdalen College· Oxford·Westminster School·Royal College of Music
Place of birth
Kensington
Birth date
22 March 1948
Member of
Conservative Party
Nationality
British

  • Grammy Legend Award
  • Praemium Imperiale
  • Kennedy Center Honors
  • Laurence Olivier Award

  • He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1992 Queens Honours List and awarded Life-Peerage in the 1997 Queens New Years Honours List for his services to Music. Since 1997, he has been Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and can sit in the House of Lords in Parliament in London, England.
  • Started playing the violin aged three.
  • Had written nine musicals by the time he had left school.
  • Has owned a race horse.
  • He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 (2000 season) for Best New Musical for "The Beautiful Game.
  • He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Outstanding Musical Production of 2003 for both "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and "Tell Me on A Sunday," both performed in Londons West End.
  • He was awarded the 2000 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best New Musical for "The Beautiful Game" with Ben Elton at the Cambridge Theatre.
  • Shares birthday with legendary composer Stephen Sondheim.
  • Has won Broadways Tony Award three times: in 1980, as Best Score , his music with lyrics by Tim Rice , for "Evita;" in 1983, as Best Score, his music with lyrics by T.S.
  • Wrote song "Its Easy For You," recorded by Elvis Presley during his last session in October 29, 1976. It was released in Elvis last album "Moody Blue" in 1977.

  • There is a recommendation that schools spend a certain amount of time,teaching music but it really depends on whether the teachers believe in,it. In some primary and secondary schools there is no musical provision,at all but other well-resourced schools have plenty.
  • I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark,days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention,of leaving the country of my birth.
  • Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
  • The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

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