Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber , (born March 22, 1948 in London ) is a British composer . He is best known for his numerous musicals . He is an Emmy , Oscar , Tony Award and Grammy Award winner . Lloyd Webber belongs to the small group of people who have won all four major awards from the American entertainment industry ( EGOT ) in a regular competition category.
Origin and education
Andrew Lloyd Webber, the son of the composer William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982) and the pianist Jean Hermione (1921–1993), began composing at the age of six and published his first suite at the age of nine . After dropping out of history at Magdalen College , University of Oxford , he moved to the Royal College of Music in London .
Works
Webber met the copywriter Tim Rice and an intensive collaboration developed, as a result of which Rice wrote the texts for various works by Webber. Their first collaboration was the musical The Likes of Us in 1965. Numerous works followed, mainly musicals, pop songs and the score for two feature films and a requiem . Webber is the most successful musical composer today; some of his works ran for decades in well-known places such as London's West End or Broadway . His first # 1 hit in the UK was Any dream will do from Joseph . Many of his songs became world hits outside of the musical, such as Don't Cry for Me Argentina from Evita or Memory from the musical Cats .
Several of his musicals have also been filmed. The best-known film adaptations are the films Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Evita (1996), The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and Cats (2019). Lloyd Webber also composed numerous individual songs for various purposes, for example It's Easy For You , which appeared on the last Elvis Presley studio album before his death, and Amigos Para Siempre (Friends For Life) , the official anthem of the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona sung by Sarah Brightman and José Carreras .
Lloyd Webber composed and produced the track It's My Time for the UK 's contribution to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest . In the finale of the song contest in Moscow, the contribution took fifth place.
In 2012 he composed the official song Sing for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II with Gary Barlow , which was performed at the Diamond Jubilee Concert .
Foundations and formations
In 1994, Webber founded the Open Churches Trust , which has been very successful in ensuring that churches in the UK that would otherwise be closed can be open “to provide a haven of peace, comfort and prayer for those who need it, and for those in need who would like to visit a church are allowed to enter ”.
In 1977 he founded the internationally active company Really Useful Group , which among other things holds all rights to his works. According to the Sunday Times , Andrew Lloyd Webber had a net worth of £ 800 million in 2020 , making him - along with Paul McCartney - the wealthiest musician in Great Britain.
Honors
Webber has received a number of prestigious awards for his work. These include the Oscar , an Emmy , three Grammy Awards , eight Tony Awards and a Golden Globe . He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Bachelor on October 29, 1992 and inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1995. In the same year he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale . On February 18, 1997 he was raised as Baron Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton (located in the County of Hampshire ) to the Life Peer and was thus a member of the House of Lords . He was Lord of the Conservative Party there . In October 2017 he gave up this political office.
family
Webber is married for the third time. He has two children with his first wife, Sarah Hugill, whom he married on July 24, 1972; the couple divorced in 1983. His second wife was soprano Sarah Brightman , whom he married on March 22, 1984. The childless marriage ended in divorce in 1990. On February 1, 1991, he married Madeleine Gurdon, with whom he has three children.
His brother Julian is a cellist and composer.
Discography
Musicals
- The Likes of Us (1965) (Text: Tim Rice ) (based on the life of the philanthropist Thomas John Barnardo )
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968, revised 1991) (Text: Tim Rice ) (based on the biblical story of Joseph in Egypt )
- Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) (Text: Tim Rice ) (based on the biblical representation of the Passion of Jesus Christ )
- Jeeves (1975) or By Jeeves (revision 1996) (Text: Alan Ayckbourn ) (based on P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories )
- Evita (1976) (Text: Tim Rice ) (based on Eva Perón's life)
- Cats (1981) (based on TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats from 1939)
- Starlight Express (1984) (Text: Richard Stilgoe , additional text: Don Black ) (based on the children's book series The Railway Series )
- Cricket (1986) (Text: Tim Rice )
- The Phantom of the Opera (1986) (Text: Richard Stilgoe / Charles Hart ) (based on the novel ofthe same name by Gaston Leroux from 1911)
- Aspects of Love (1989) (Text: Don Black ) (based on the1955novel of the same name by David Garnett )
- Sunset Boulevard (1993) (Text: Don Black ) (based on the1950 film ofthe same name by Billy Wilder )
- Whistle Down the Wind (1996) (Text: Jim Steinman ) (based on the1961 Bryan Forbes film)
- The Beautiful Game (2000) (Text: Ben Elton )
- The Woman in White (2004) (Text: David Zippel ) (based on the1860 novel ofthe same name by Wilkie Collins )
- Love Never Dies (2010), (Text: Glenn Slater , Ben Elton ) (based on the1997novel The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth )
- The Wizard of Oz (2011), (Music: Harold Arlen and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Text: EY Harburg and Tim Rice ) (based on the1939 musical film ofthe same name by Victor Fleming )
- Stephen Ward (2013), (Text: Christopher Hampton , Don Black ) (based on the Profumo affair in 1962/63)
- School of Rock (2015), (Text: Glenn Slater ) (based on the2003 film ofthe same name by Richard Linklater )
- Cinderella (2021), (Text: David Zippel (based on the fairy tale Cinderella ))
Film music
- Gumshoe (1971) - directed by Stephen Frears
- The Odessa File (The Odessa File) (1974) - Directed by Ronald Neame
Other works (selection)
- Variations (1978) (Variations on a Theme by Paganini )
- Tell Me On A Sunday (1979) (Text: Don Black ) ( song cycle )
- Song And Dance (1982) (Text: Don Black ) (Summary of Tell Me On A Sunday (= 1st act) and Variations (= 2nd act))
- Requiem (1985) ( Latin funeral mass in memory of Lloyd Webber's father, who died in 1982)
Chart placements
Albums
| year | title |
Highest ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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| 1970 | Jesus Christ Superstar - A Rock Opera |
DE11 (17 weeks) DE |
AT4th  (14 weeks)AT |
- | - |
US-  |
Chart entry in AT only in 1974
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| 1977 | Evita |
DE6 (12 weeks) DE |
- | - | - |
US- |
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| 1978 | Variations | - | - | - |
UK2 (19 weeks)UK |
- | |
| 1985 | requiem | - | - | - |
UK- |
US77 (14 weeks) US |
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| 1987 | Highlights From The Phantom Of The Opera | - |
AT3 (22 weeks) AT |
CH- × 2
|
- |
US- × 4
|
Chart entry in AT only in 1989
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| The Phantom Of The Opera - Original Cast Recording | - |
AT2 (20 weeks)AT |
- | - | - |
Chart entry in AT only in 1989
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| 1991 | The Premiere Collection | - | - | - |
UK100 × 3
(1 week)UK |
US130 (14 weeks)US |
Chart entry in UK only in 1994
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| 1993 | The Premiere Collection Encore | - | - | - |
UK- |
US191 (6 weeks) US |
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| Sunset Boulevard - The Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical | - | - | - | - |
US170 (1 week) US |
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| 1994 | Andrew Lloyd Webber's great musical successes |
DE83 (5 weeks) DE |
- | - | - | - | |
| Phantom of the Opera | - | - |
CH14th × 3
(9 weeks)CH |
UK93 (1 week) UK |
US- × 4
|
Chart entry in CH only in 1996
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| The Very Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Broadway Collection |
DE12 (24 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK- |
- | ||
| Sunset Boulevard American Premiere Recording | - | - | - | - |
US191 (1 week) US |
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| 1996 | Very Best of ... Broadway Collection | - | - | - | - |
US155 (7 weeks) US |
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| 1997 | Highlights From Jesus Christ Superstar | - | - | - |
UK100 (1 week) UK |
- | |
| 2002 | gold | - | - | - |
UK- |
US110 (1 week) US |
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| 2004 | The Phantom of The Opera |
DE33 (7 weeks) DE |
AT24 (8 weeks) AT |
CH34 (9 weeks) CH |
UK40 (12 weeks)UK |
- | |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Video albums
| year | title |
Highest ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2004 | Live Musicals Collection | - | - | - |
UK1 (... week) UK |
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Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
 silver |
gold |
platinum
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Sales | swell |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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 Australia (ARIA)
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- |
gold1
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2 × platinum2
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175,000 | aria.com.au |
 Canada (MC)
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- |
2 × gold2
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5 × platinum5
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600,000 | musiccanada.com |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
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- | - |
platinum1
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15,000 | nztop40.co.nz |
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Austria (IFPI)
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- |
gold1
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platinum1
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75,000 | ifpi.at |
 Sweden (IFPI)
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- |
gold1
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- | 50,000 | ifpi.se ( Memento from May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) |
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Switzerland (IFPI)
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- |
gold1
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7 × platinum7th
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375,000 | hitparade.ch |
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United States (RIAA)
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- | - |
13 × platinum13
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12,100,000 | riaa.com |
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United Kingdom (BPI)
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7 × silver7th
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12 × gold12th
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37 × platinum37
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6,320,000 | bpi.co.uk |
| All in all |
7 × silver7th
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18 × gold18th
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66 × platinum66
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Artist awards (selection)
- Oscar , for the song " You Must Love Me " from Evita
- Tony Award (8 ×), 2 × each for Evita , Cats and Sunset Boulevard , as well as for The Phantom of the Opera and for Lifetime Achievement
- Grammy Award (4 ×), for Evita , Cats , Requiem and life's work
- Emmy (1 ×), for the live version of Jesus Christ Superstar
- Golden Globe Award , for the song " You Must Love Me " from Evita
- Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the American Theater Hall of Fame
- Ivor Novello Award (14 ×)
- Laurence Olivier Award (8 ×)
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Awards: Richard Rogers Award for Excellence in Musical Theater and triple play award as first composer
- Praemium Imperiale
See also
Web links
- Official Homepage (English)
- Site of his company Really Useful Group (English)
- Works by and about Andrew Lloyd Webber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Andrew Lloyd Webber in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nicole Baumann: Andrew Lloyd Webber - The "Musical Pope". (mp3 audio, 21.6 MB, 23:18 minutes) In: Bayern-2 broadcast “ radioWissen ”. March 30, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jade lands UK's Eurovision place . BBC news February 1, 2009, accessed February 7, 2009
- ^ Open Churches Trust: About Us . Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved on May 3, 2015: "... to enable those who need a haven for peace, solace and prayer, and those who like to visit, access"
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/sunday-times-rich-list
- ↑ The London Gazette : No. 54689, p. 2341 , February 25, 1997.
- ↑ Information on Lloyd Webber on the House of Lords page , accessed July 28, 2012
- ↑ The Guardian : [1] October 16, 2017.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
- ↑ 2 × platinum for The Premiere Collection Encore in Australia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lloyd Webber, Andrew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lloyd Webber, Andrew, Baron Lloyd-Webber |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England, UK |