The Right Honourable The Lord Lloyd-Webber |
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Lloyd Webber in 2007
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Born |
Andrew Lloyd Webber 22 March 1948 Kensington, London, England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater |
Westminster School Magdalen College, Oxford Royal College of Music |
Occupation |
Composer • panellist • television personality • songwriter • theatre director • businessman
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Years active | 1965–present |
Notable work | See below and Discography |
Net worth | £715 million (2016 estimate) |
Political party | Tory |
Spouse(s) |
Sarah Hugill (m. 1971; div. 1983) Sarah Brightman (m. 1984; div. 1990) Madeleine Gurdon (m. 1991) |
Awards |
Knight Bachelor
Best Original Song |
Member of the House of Lords | |
Assumed office 25 February 1997 |
Best Original Song
1996: Evita
Best Original Score
1980: Evita
Best Original Song
1996: Evita
Performing Arts
2001: Jesus Christ Superstar
Best Cast Show Album
1980: Evita
1983 Cats
Best Contemporary Composition
1985: Lloyd Webber: Requiem
2008: Society of London Theatre Special Award
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "You Must Love Me" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and "Memory" from Cats. In 2001 the New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". Ranked the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" by The Telegraph in 2008, the lyricist Don Black stated "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical."