![]() ![]() He 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. ![]() An avid listener of 1960s rock and pop music, he called The Rolling Stones song " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" the "best record of the Sixties", and Dusty Springfield's rendition of " Son of a Preacher Man" the song that taught him "the power of a perfect pop song". įrom 1960 to 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School. At this time he was working on a Genghis Khan musical called Westonia!. His father enrolled him as a part-time student at the Eric Gilder School of Music in 1963. In his memoir, he writes: "mum was determined that I should be a prodigy in something or other." 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. 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. 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. Lloyd Webber 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), he became the thirteenth person to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. Lloyd Webber has received numerous awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage for services to the arts, six Tonys, seven Olivier Awards, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, 14 Ivor Novello Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, and two Classic Brit Awards (for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2008, and for Musical Theatre and Education in 2018). The Daily Telegraph named him in 2008 the fifth-most powerful person in British culture, on which occasion lyricist Don Black said that "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". 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. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. ![]()
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