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    Andrew Lloyd Webber - Wikipedia

    • Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, KG (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 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of Lloyd Webber's s… See more

    BornAndrew Lloyd Webber · 22 March 1948 · London, England
    Alma materRoyal College of Music
    Notable workJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) · Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) · Evita (1976) · Cats (1981) · Starlight Express (1984) · The Phantom of the Opera (1986) · Sunset Boulevard (1993) · School of Rock (2015)
    Children5, including Imogen and Nick
    Albums
    Early life

    Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March 1948 at Westminster Hospital in London, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993), a violinist and pianist. His … See more

    Career

    In 1965, when Lloyd Webber was a 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice. Their first collaboration was The Likes of Us, an Oliver!-inspired mu… See more

    Accusations of plagiarism

    Among the accusations of plagiarism that Lloyd Webber has received, the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen stated that he: "has yet to think up a single note; in fact, the poor guy's never invented one note by himself. Tha… See more

    Personal life

    Lloyd Webber has been married three times. He married first Sarah Hugill, youngest daughter of Lieutenant-Commander Antony Hugill and Fanny née Gore Browne, on 24 July 1971; they divorced on … See more

    Wealth

    The Sunday Times Rich List 2006 ranked him the 87th-richest person in Britain with an estimated fortune of £700 million. His wealth increased to £750 million in 2007, but the publication ranked him 101st in 2008. … See more

    Charity

    Lloyd Webber is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. In 1992, he started the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation … See more

    Politics

    Lloyd Webber was made a life peer in 1997, sitting for the Conservative Party. By the end of 2015, he had voted only 33 times in the House of Lords. Politically, Lloyd Webber has supported the Conservatives, allowing his … See more

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