In 2008, amateur rights were released by the National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) in association with the Really Useful Group. Īlthough composed in 1965, The Likes of Us was not publicly performed until 2005, when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber's Sydmonton Festival. They produced a demo tape of that work in 1966, but the project failed to gain a backer. Their first collaboration was The Likes of Us, a musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo. 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. In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music in London and pursue his interest in musical theatre. At this time he was working on a Genghis Khan musical called Westonia!, and he had also set music to Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. His father enrolled him as a part-time student at the Eric Gilder School of Music in the spring of 1963. His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. He also put on "productions" with Julian and his aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at Viola's suggestion). Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age: a suite of six pieces at the age of nine. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate from the college for his "contribution to musical life". Lloyd Webber studied at the Royal College of Music in London as did his father William.
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On the BBC's genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, he learned that his mother's great-great-uncle was the soldier Sir Peregrine Maitland who in 1815 served as a major general at the Battle of Waterloo. His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a world-renowned solo cellist. Early life Īndrew Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March 1948 in Kensington, London, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982), a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993), a violinist and pianist. In 1992, he started the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture, and heritage of the UK. He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. He is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools, London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. The Really Useful Group, Lloyd Webber's company, is one of the largest theatre operators in London.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In 2018, after Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), Lloyd Webber become the thirteenth person in history to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. He has received numerous awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage for services to the arts, six Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, 14 Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Ranking fifth in The Daily Telegraph's "most powerful people in British culture" in 2008, lyricist Don Black wrote "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical."
In 2001, The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history".
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Several of Lloyd Webber's songs have been widely recorded and widely 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. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. The Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948), is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
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