Andrew Lloyd Webber

This British surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Lloyd Webber, not Webber.

The Right Honourable
The Lord Lloyd-Webber
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Lloyd Webber in 2009
Born
Andrew Lloyd Webber

(1948-03-22) 22 March 1948 (age 76)
London, England
Alma materRoyal College of Music
OccupationComposer
Years active1965–present
Organizations
Notable work
Spouses
Sarah Hugill
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(m. 1971; div. 1983)​
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(m. 1984; div. 1990)​
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(m. 1991)​
Children5, including Imogen and Nick
FatherWilliam Lloyd Webber
RelativesJulian Lloyd Webber (brother)
AwardsFull list
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
25 February 1997 – 17 October 2017
Life peerage
Websiteandrewlloydwebber.com

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 songs have been widely recorded and widely successful outside 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 to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history".[1] 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."[2]

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).[3][4][5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

The Really Useful Group, Lloyd Webber's company, is one of the largest theatre operators in 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. He is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools, London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. 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 which supports the arts, culture, and heritage of the UK.[8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NY Times was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "The 100 most powerful people in British culture". The Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2016. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Kennedy Center Honors Pictures". CBS News. Archived from the original on 24 April 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Explore the Arts". The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  5. ^ "Classic BRITs - Outstanding Contributions & Lifetime Achievement Awards". Classic FM. Retrieved 5 August 2015
  6. ^ "John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice become EGOT winners". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Fellows – The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors". Basca.org.uk. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  8. ^ "What we do" Archived 10 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. Retrieved 16 August 2015