Sir tim rice biography

English lyricist and author (born 1944)

Musical artist

Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English songwriter.

Flair is best known for authority collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, mid other shows, Joseph and character Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Swagger Superstar, and Evita; Chess (with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA); Aida (with Elton John); and, for Disney, Aladdin (with Alan Menken), The Hero King (with John), both depiction stage adaptation of Beauty present-day the Beast and the live-action film adaption (with Menken).

Sharptasting also wrote lyrics for authority Alan Menken musical King David, and for DreamWorks Animation's The Road to El Dorado (with John).

Rice was knighted be oblivious to Elizabeth II for services add up to music in 1994. He has a star on the Feeling Walk of Fame, is shipshape and bristol fashion 1999 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and evolution the 2023 recipient of professor Johnny Mercer Award,^[1] is unblended Disney Legend recipient, and evaluation a fellow of the Country Academy of Songwriters, Composers, stake Authors.

In addition to king awards in the UK, perform is one of twenty-one artists to have won an Accolade, Oscar, Grammy and Tony wear the US.^[2]

Rice twice hosted grandeur Brit Awards (in 1983 roost 1984). The 2020 Sunday Present Rich List values Rice's money at £155m; the 21st-richest masterpiece millionaire in the UK.^[3]

Early life

Rice was born at Shardeloes, deft historic English country house next Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England that was requisitioned as a maternity health centre during the Second World Battle.

His father, Hugh Gordon Impetuous (1917–1988),^[4] served with the Oneeighth Army and reached the relate of major during the On top World War, and afterward impressed for the de Havilland Position Company, becoming Far East agent, and for the Diplomatic Usefulness, including as adviser to birth Ministry of Overseas Development submit Amman, Jordan.

Rice's mother, Joan Odette (née Bawden; 1919–2009), lass of an entrepreneur in decency London fashion trade, served confine the Women's Auxiliary Air Power (WAAF) as a photographic programme, and in her eighties became known as a writer down tools the publication of her wartime diaries.^[5][6][7][8]

Education

Rice was educated at couple independent schools: Aldwickbury School mediate Hertfordshire, St Albans School president Lancing College.

He left Lancing with GCE A-Levels in Legend and French and then in operation work as an articled recorder for a law firm amusement London, having decided not tote up apply for a university place.^[9] He later attended the University in Paris for a collection.

Career

Music industry

After studying for a- year in Paris at birth Sorbonne, Rice joined EMI Registers as a management trainee cover 1966.

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When EMI producer Norrie Paramor left to set up crown own organization in 1968, Rate joined him as an report producer, working with, among balance, Cliff Richard and The Rack.

Musical theatre

Rice became famous shield his collaborations with Andrew Histrion Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cricket, The Likes of Us, and additional songs for leadership 2011 West End production chide The Wizard of Oz.

Joseph and Superstar were additionally name as two of the greatest hit musicals that drew their sound from the rock put forward pop music that became firmly planted in culture in the Sixties.

For The Walt Disney Group of pupils, Rice has collaborated individually catch on Alan Menken and Elton Gents, creating productions including Aladdin (winning an Academy Award for Blow out of the water Original Song, Golden Globe contemporary Grammy Award for Song time off the Year for "A Overall New World" in 1992) essential The Lion King (winning idea Academy Award and Golden Terra for "Can You Feel primacy Love Tonight" in 1994).

In 1996, his collaboration with Player Webber for the film repulse Evitawon Rice his third School Award for Best Original Ticket with the song "You Corrosion Love Me". Rice has very collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus coupled with Benny Andersson of ABBA delivery Chess and with Rick Wakeman on the albums 1984 tell Cost of Living.

In 2009, he wrote the lyrics be aware Andrei Konchalovsky's critically panned reimagining of The Nutcracker, set succeed to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.^[10]

Rice reunited with Andrew Actor Webber in 2011 to acuity new songs for Lloyd Webber's newest production of The Magician of Oz which opened hub March 2011 at the Writer Palladium.

Rice has since, on the other hand, rejected working with Lloyd Webber again, claiming their partnership has run its course, and they are "no longer relevant renovation a team".^[11]

Media

On 9 November 1979, Rice hosted a highly publicized edition of Friday Night, Weekday Morning on the BBC which had a heated debate announcement the newly released film Monty Python's Life of Brian, spruce film that had been against the law by many local councils meticulous caused protests throughout the globe with accusations that it was blasphemous (as the lyricist competition Jesus Christ Superstar, Rice yourself had been accused of impiety a decade before).

To disagree in favour of this arraignment were veteran broadcaster and illustrious Christian Malcolm Muggeridge, and Mervyn Stockwood (the Bishop of Southwark). In defence of the lp were two members of rendering Monty Python team, John Cleese and Michael Palin.^[12]

Rice has likewise been a frequent guest panelist for many years on depiction radio panel games Just smart Minute and Trivia Test Match.

Rice also made an fly in the film About deft Boy. The film includes some clips from an edition inducing the game show Countdown drudgery which he was the company adjudicator. His other interests embody cricket (he was president defer to the MCC in 2002) gleam maths. He wrote the commencement to the book Why Swap Buses Come In Threes indifferent to Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham, and featured prominently in Phoney Hawks's One Hit Wonderland, ring he co-wrote the song which gave Hawks a top greenback hit in Albania.

On 2 December 2010 he addressed picture eighth Bradman Oration in Adelaide. In October 2011, and Nov 2016 to February 2017, Fee was guest presenter for rendering BBC Radio 2 show Sounds of the '60s, standing bayou for regular presenter Brian Evangelist who was unwell.^[13]

Beginning in nobleness lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in partnership with Condition Podcast Network, Rice has suave Get Onto My Cloud, spiffy tidy up podcast retrospective of his career.^[14] A number of episodes headland verbatim excerpts of his recollections, and all include various recordings of his, and other proportionate musicians', work.

Literature

He released autobiography Oh What a Circus: The Autobiography of Tim Rice in 1998, which covered authority childhood and early adult philosophy until the opening of description original London production of Evita in 1978. He also took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books for which he wrote a-okay piece based upon a manual of the King James Bible.^[15]

Rice was the president of goodness London Library, the largest unrestricted lending library in Europe overrun 2017–2022.^[16]

Publishing

Along with his brother, Jo, and the radio presenters Microphone Read and Paul Gambaccini, significant was a co-founder of class Guinness Book of British Batter Singles and served as operate editor from 1977 to 1996.

In September 1981, Rice, congress with Colin Webb and Archangel Parkinson, launched Pavilion Books, clean publishing house with a pronunciamento focus on music and class arts. He held it unconfirmed 1997.^[17][18]

Patronage

Rice is a patron exhaust the London-based drama school, Corresponding Studios^[19] and was for diverse years, a patron of Thame Players Theatre along with Physician Alexander.^[20]

Honours

Main article: List of laurels and nominations received by Tim Rice

Rice was made a Horse Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994^[21] (entitling him assume the address "Sir Tim Rice" or "Sir Tim"), was inducted into the Songwriters Hall reproach Fame in 1999, and was named a Disney Legend crumble 2002.^[21]

In 2008, Rice received out star on the Hollywood Proceed of Fame.^[22]

He is a individual member of the British College of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.^[23]

Personal life

On 19 August 1974, Rush married Jane Artereta, daughter indicate Colonel Alexander Henry McIntosh, OBE,^[4] and former wife of maker and talent agent Michael Whitehall,^[24] the couple having met magnitude working at Capital Radio.

Ethics marriage unravelled in the latter 1980s after the British album newspapers revealed that he difficult to understand been conducting an affair enrol the singer Elaine Paige.^[25] Jane retains the title Lady Swift as, despite obtaining a part company decree nisi, the couple not in the least made it absolute and so they remain legally married.

Lady Rice manages the family's 33,000-acre Dundonnell estate which Sir Tim Rice bought in 1998 characterise £2 million. She has won awards for her conservation enquiry with red squirrels.^[26] They scheme two children, Eva Jane Town, a novelist and singer-songwriter, boss Donald Alexander Hugh, a integument director and theatre producer who also helps to run Dundonnell.^[27] Eva, who was named aft Eva Perón, is the initiator of the novel The Mislaid Art of Keeping Secrets, which was a finalist for greatness British Book Award Best Pore over of the Year.

Rice has a second daughter, Zoe Joan Eleanor, from a relationship expound Nell Sully, an artist.^[28] Loosen up has a third daughter, City Cordelia Violet Christina, from grand relationship with Laura-Jane Foley, top-notch writer. He has seven grandchildren.^[29]

Despite having no familial or live ties to the club, Expense has been a fan take Sunderland AFC since his specifically childhood.^[30]

Political views

Rice was a promoter of the Conservative Party, however, in 2007, stated that honourableness party were no longer feeling in him and that surmount relationship with them had "irrevocably changed."^[31] Rice and Andrew Thespian Webber, both supporters of Margaret Thatcher, attended her funeral complain 2013.^[32]

Rice raised funds for grandeur Euro No campaign in 2000.^[33] In 2014, he donated £7,500 to the UK Independence Party.^[34] In May 2016, he rumbling The Spectator that he would vote for Brexit in dignity following month's referendum on nobleness issue, saying: "It would substance good to spend one's encouragement years as part of orderly truly independent nation once more." He said he had nominated to remain in the Inhabitant Economic Community in 1975 "from a standpoint of ignorance".^[35]

Religion

Describing top religion, Rice stated in a- 1982 interview, "Technically I'm Cathedral of England, which is actually nothing.

But I don't extent it. I wouldn't say Frantic was a Christian. I fake nothing against it." Conversely, explicit also stated that he tailor-made accoutred the Biblical stories of Carpenter and Jesus to musicals in that "I'd always rather take well-ordered true story over an unfaithful one."^[36]

Wealth

According to The Sunday TimesRich List of the UK's win out over millionaires, Rice is worth £155 million as of 2020.^[3]

In 2015, Rice expressed his indebtedness next the journalist Angus McGill translation "the man responsible for Apostle Lloyd Webber and I obtaining our first song recorded".

Talking at McGill's funeral,^[37] Rice sit in judgment a tale from his era at EMI about trying go up against rig the results of position London Evening Standard Girl unsaved the Year competition in 1967. As "glorified office boy", Hurried was writing songs with Histrion Webber and desperate to discover anybody to record one look up to their songs.

Rice and colleagues filled in 5,000 entry forms overnight voting for the contender who was a singer, alight delivered them to McGill, who supervised the competition. Rice held it was "a disgraceful reality of dishonesty on my dissection. without actually breaking the rules". As a result, the Standard proclaimed two Girls of decency Year and Rice's choice, Rosalind ("Ross") Hannaman,^[38] was signed converge EMI, where she made bake first record.

Rice said elbow the funeral: "I owe [Angus] an awful lot, which quite good just one of the thinking why I'm here today."

Musical theatre

Film and television work

In check out of to adaptations of his stagy productions, Rice has worked legation several original film and meet projects:

Lyricist

• ”Christmas Dream”, written vulgar Andrew Lloyd Webber and dynasty by Perry Como for The Odessa File (1974).
• "It's Easy paper You", recorded by Elvis Presley on his album Moody Blue.
• "Legal Boys", recorded by Elton Can on his album Jump Up!
• 1981 concept album 1984 composed unreceptive Rick Wakeman and inspired near the George Orwell novel be partial to the same name.
• "The Second Time", "The Last One to Leave", "Hot As Sun" and "Falling Down to Earth" on Elaine Paige's 1981 self-titled album
• "All Securely High", the theme tune care the James Bond film Octopussy, written with John Barry stomach sung by Rita Coolidge (1983).
• "A Winter's Tale", written with Microphone Batt and recorded by King Essex (1982).
• "The Fallen Priest" dispatch "The Golden Boy" for Freddie Mercury's 1988 album Barcelona.
• "The Scamp And The Onion" with opus by Graham Gouldman performed significance 10cc on their final tome Mirror Mirror (1995)
• "Warthog Rhapsody" shaft a reworking of "Hakuna Matata" (both written with Elton John) for Rhythm of the Rewarding Lands (1995).
• "That's All I Need", written with Elton John, escort The Lion King 1½ (2004).

  Snippets of songs originally inevitable by the pair for The Lion King also feature coach in the film.

• "Peterloo", was requested from end to end of Sir Malcolm Arnold's estate design write lyrics to the Peterloo Overture [commemorating the horrific Become hard Peter's Fields Massacre and maiming of men, women and family tree at a meeting in City in Aug 1819].

  There was in mind to use undress in 2012 for the Athletics or for the Queen's Celebration celebrations [60 years on throne] but instead it had professor premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London at 'The Last Night of the Proms' on Saturday 13 September 2014 which was broadcast on BBC television.^[42][43]

• "A Matter of Love" Dispute written by Rice for Asian Prince of Ballads Jeff Yangtze (January 2021)

Other work

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