Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of some of the world’s best-known musicals including Cats, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. Lloyd Webber has had shows running continually in the West End for 50 years and on Broadway for 43.

When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS, and The Phantom of the Opera he equalled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. 

Lloyd Webber owns six London theatres including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Reopened in July 2021, the latter was completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It was one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings. 

Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre. 

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed anthems for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina and for two Olympic ceremonies, including “Amigos Para Siempre”, the official song of the 1992 summer games in Barcelona. He wrote “Let Us Love In Peace” for the concert on Ground Zero in the aftermath of the attacks on The World Trade Center. And he has been honoured to have been asked to compose for many royal occasions, the most recent being the anthem “Make a Joyful Noise” for the Coronation of King Charles III. 

Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992, created an honorary life peer in 1997, and made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by King Charles III in 2024.

 

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Songs include

“All I Ask of You,” The Phantom of the Opera

“Another Suitcase in Another Hall,” Evita

“Any Dream Will Do,” Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

“Anything But Lonely,” Aspects of Love

“As If We Never Said Goodbye,” Sunset Boulevard

“Buenos Aires,” Evita

“Close Every Door,” Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

“Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” Evita

“Everything’s Alright,” Jesus Christ Superstar

“Gethsemane,” Jesus Christ Superstar

“Half a Moment,” By Jeeves

“I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” Jesus Christ Superstar

“Let Us Love in Peace,” The Beautiful Game

“Love Changes Everything,” Aspects of Love

“Love Never Dies,” Love Never Dies

“Memory,” Cats

“No Matter What,” Whistle Down the Wind

“Oh, What a Circus,” Evita

“Pie Jesu,” Requiem

“Seeing Is Believing,” Aspects of Love

“Starlight Express,” Starlight Express

“Stick It to the Man,” School of Rock

“Sunset Boulevard,” Sunset Boulevard

“Superstar,” Jesus Christ Superstar

“Take That Look Off Your Face,” Tell Me on a Sunday

“Tell Me on a Sunday,” Tell Me on a Sunday

“The Music of the Night,” The Phantom of the Opera

“The Perfect Year,” Sunset Boulevard

“The Phantom of the Opera,” The Phantom of the Opera

“Think of Me,” The Phantom of the Opera

“Unexpected Song,” Tell Me on a Sunday

“What’s The Buzz?,” Jesus Christ Superstar

“Where Did the Rock Go?,” School of Rock

“Whistle Down the Wind,” Whistle Down the Wind

“Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again,” The Phantom of the Opera

“With One Look,” Sunset Boulevard

“You’re in the Band,” School of Rock

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