Early Andrew Lloyd Webber – A Sampler

Andrew Lloyd Webber is an enigma. Genius? Plagiarist? Both? Which of these songs do you like? Why?

from Wikipedia:

Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as “Memory” from Cats, “The Music of the Night” and “All I Ask of You” from The Phantom of the Opera, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from Jesus Christ Superstar, “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” from Evita, and “Any Dream Will Do” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 2001, The New York Times referred him as “the most commercially successful composer in history”.^[5] The Daily Telegraph ranked him the “fifth most powerful person in British culture” in 2008, with lyricist Don Black writing “Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical.”

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968)

  Lyrics by Tim Rice

• Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)

  Lyrics by Tim Rice

• Jeeves (1975)

  Lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn

  Revised in 1996 as By Jeeves

• Evita (1976)

  Lyrics by Tim Rice

• Tell Me on a Sunday (1979)

  Lyrics by Don Black

• Cats (1981)

  Lyrics based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot

  Additional lyrics after Eliot by Richard Stilgoe and Trevor Nunn

And of course, something from the Phantom of the Opera (1986)

Is he someone who is inspired? Or a copier of other’s music

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