Tim Rice has worked in music, theatre and films since 1965 when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Tim Rice has worked in music, theatre and films since 1965. With Andrew Lloyd Webber he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita and has since collaborated with other distinguished composers such as Elton John (The Lion King; Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin; King David; Beauty and the Beast), Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess), and Stuart Brayson (From Here To Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach, Gary Barlow, Marvin Hamlisch and Rick Wakeman among others. In 2024-5 Tim toured over 30 towns and cities in the UK and Ireland with My Life in Musicals, an evening of his songs from his 60-year career in show business. In 2025 he was reunited with Andrew Lloyd Webber to write original songs for the comedy play Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas, while Chess returned to Broadway for its first new production there in nearly 40 years. He was knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and like Elton, Andrew and Alan, has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony – achieving ‘EGOT’ status. Tim’s interests beyond the entertainment business include boxer dogs, astronomy and cricket and to indulge the latter he founded his own team in 1973. He is a patron of the Bob Willis Fund (along with Bob Dylan), an enterprise inspired by the late great English cricketer, which is dedicated to raising awareness of prostate cancer. Though he has given up spin-bowling he has no immediate plans to retire from show business.
