Andrew LLoyd Webber celebrates his 60th birthday
Polydor Records celebrates the 60th birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber, indisputably the most successful composer of our time, with the release of ‘60’.This amazing  3 CD, 60 track set spans the whole of Andrew’s illustrious career and includes hits from all of his most famous musicals - Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats,Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Starlight Express, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and of course The Phantom Of The Opera. The album features hit recordings, hits from cast albums all sung by a diverse range of superstar and original artists.
From Elvis Presley singing It’s Easy For You (the song that Andrew and Tim Rice wrote especially for him) to Barbra Streisand, Sarah Brightman, Shirley Bassey, John Barrowman, Michael Crawford, Madonna, Tom Jones and rocker Alice Cooper (singing King Herod's Song) this collection has it all.
For over 40 years Lloyd Webber has provided the world its musical soundtrack. Not only in the realm of musical theatre but in the charts across a variety of genres including pop, classical, rock and jazz. Â
Then in 2006 Lloyd Webber pioneered television casting for musical theatre with the hit BBC series How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? which won an international Emmy. He repeated this success with Any Dream Will Do which cast the title role of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and this year and this year with I'd Do Anything.
Internationally renowned producer Sir Cameron MacIntosh states “It is hard to imagine what the British musical scene would have been like over the past forty years without the prodigious and passionate talents of Andrew Lloyd Webberâ€.
Lloyd Webber’s awards to date include seven Tonys, three Grammys including Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, two International Emmys, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers award for Excellence in Musical Theatre and the Kennedy Center Honor. Â