Andrew Lloyd Webber

Perhaps the "Mozart" of the 20th century.

But does he write it all unaided?

And more importantly, did he start when he was five?

See http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=038D5000

 We cower in our shelters
 With our hands over our ears
 Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff
 Runs for years and years and years
 An earthquake hits the theatre
 But the operetta lingers
 Then the piano lids comes down
 And breaks his fucking fingers
      -- It's a Miracle by RogerWaters?

British composer of musicals; especially several which have done thousands of shows and are widely loved by the general public (and widely despised by many theatre buffs). Among other things, wrote...

• JesusChristSuperstar
• Evita (Lyrics by Tim Rice)
• PhantomOfTheOpera? (one of many musicals based on the novel - there are others)
• StarlightExpress?

Yeah Right, this guy's right up there with Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Elton John and all the other wonder boys of establishment pop rock drivel. Mozart was just in a different century, that's all!

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Mozart of the 20th century? Which Mozart was that? Certainly not Wolfgang Amadeus. While ALW is competent as a composer of musicals, his repertoire has neither the musical breadth nor the depth of Mozart's pinkie finger, let alone Mozart. A better comparison might be Salieri, who was quite popular in his time - though history has been unkind to his works.

And that's being nice to Lloyd-Webber. A harsher critic would accuse him of composing simplistic, mediocre, bombastic, and commercially-driven rubbish. Plus, even if you consider Lloyd-Webber's offerings to be meritorious, he is most decidedly a charter member of CategoryCows?.

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