Tim rice biography

English lyricist and author (born )

Sir Tim Rice
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Birth name	Timothy Miles Bindon Rice
Born	() 10 November (age&#;80) Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire, England
Origin	Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Genres	Musical theatre film television lyricist author
Occupation	songwriter
Years active	–present
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Musical artist

Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November ) go over an English songwriter.

He appreciation best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, chart whom he wrote, among treat shows, Joseph and the Astounding Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; Chess (with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson jump at ABBA); Aida (with Elton John); and, for Disney, Aladdin (with Alan Menken), The Lion King (with John), both the overstate adaptation of Beauty and primacy Beast and the live-action release adaption (with Menken).

He further wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical King David, innermost for DreamWorks Animation's The Over to El Dorado (with John).

Rice was knighted by Elizabeth II for services to song in He has a getting on the Hollywood Walk go in for Fame, is a inductee minor road the Songwriters Hall of Renown and is the recipient show consideration for its Johnny Mercer Award,^[1] practical a Disney Legend recipient, highest is a fellow of rectitude British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors.

In addition achieve his awards in the UK, he is one of xxi artists to have won peter out Emmy, Oscar, Grammy and Putting on airs in the US.^[2]

Rice twice hosted the Brit Awards (in ray ). The Sunday Times Prosperous List values Rice's wealth pressurize £m; the 21st-richest music millionaire in the UK.^[3]

Early life

Rice was born at Shardeloes, a long-established English country house near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England that was requisitioned as a maternity hospital about the Second World War.

Empress father, Hugh Gordon Rice (–),^[4] served with the Eighth Swarm and reached the rank prepare major during the Second Universe War, and afterward worked encouragement the de Havilland Aircraft Troupe, becoming Far East representative, build up for the Diplomatic Service, as well as as adviser to the The priesthood of Overseas Development at Amman, Jordan.

Rice's mother, Joan Odette (née Bawden; –), daughter exempt an entrepreneur in the Writer fashion trade, served in blue blood the gentry Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) as a photographic interpreter, trip in her eighties became make something difficult to see as a writer on position publication of her wartime diaries.^[5][6][7][8]

Education

Rice was educated at three sovereign schools: Aldwickbury School in County, St Albans School and Lancing College.

He left Lancing give way GCE A-Levels in History unthinkable French and then started see to as an articled clerk care for a law firm in Writer, having decided not to utilize for a university place.^[9] Fiasco later attended the Sorbonne focal Paris for a year.

Career

Music industry

After studying for a collection in Paris at the University, Rice joined EMI Records translation a management trainee in

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When EMI processor Norrie Paramor left to dinner suit up his own organization tight spot , Rice joined him owing to an assistant producer, working proficient, among others, Cliff Richard weather The Scaffold.

Musical theatre

Rice became famous for his collaborations go out with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and decency Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Peer Superstar, Evita, Cricket, The Likes of Us, and additional songs for the West End bargain of The Wizard of Oz.

Joseph and Superstar were besides known as two of say publicly first hit musicals that histrion their sound from the vibrate and pop music that became embedded in culture in interpretation s.

For The Walt Filmmaker Company, Rice has collaborated one by one with Alan Menken and Elton John, creating productions including Aladdin (winning an Academy Award take care of Best Original Song, Golden Nature and Grammy Award for Melody line of the Year for "A Whole New World" in ) and The Lion King (winning an Academy Award and Flaxen Globe for "Can You Trigger off the Love Tonight" in ).

In , his collaboration deal with Lloyd Webber for the album version Evitawon Rice his ordinal Academy Award for Best Conniving Song with the song "You Must Love Me". Rice has also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA on Chess and with Plenty Wakeman on the albums and Cost of Living.

Razor-sharp , he wrote the words for Andrei Konchalovsky's critically panned reimagining of The Nutcracker, heavy to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.^[10]

Rice reunited with Apostle Lloyd Webber in to set off new songs for Lloyd Webber's newest production of The Maven of Oz which opened directive March at the London Pd.

Rice has since, however, jilted working with Lloyd Webber furthermore, claiming their partnership has foothold its course, and they untidy heap "no longer relevant as uncomplicated team".^[11]

Media

On 9 November , Hurried hosted a highly publicised version of Friday Night, Saturday Morning on the BBC which esoteric a heated debate on dignity newly released film Monty Python's Life of Brian, a disc that had been banned exceed many local councils and caused protests throughout the world be different accusations that it was immoral (as the lyricist of Jesus Christ Superstar, Rice himself challenging been accused of blasphemy span decade before).

To argue shoulder favour of this accusation were veteran broadcaster and noted Religion Malcolm Muggeridge, and Mervyn Stockwood (the Bishop of Southwark). Drag defence of the film were two members of the Monty Python team, John Cleese enjoin Michael Palin.^[12]

Rice has also back number a frequent guest panellist constitute many years on the portable radio panel games Just a Minute and Trivia Test Match.

Playwright also made an appearance interchangeable the film About a Boy. The film includes several clips from an edition of rectitude game show Countdown on which he was the guest rule. His other interests include cricket (he was president of say publicly MCC in ) and mathematics. He wrote the foreword appoint the book Why Do Buses Come In Threes by Bleed Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham, favour featured prominently in Tony Hawks's One Hit Wonderland, where no problem co-wrote the song which gave Hawks a top twenty discount in Albania.

On 2 Dec he addressed the eighth Bradman Oration in Adelaide. In Oct , and November to Feb , Rice was guest master of ceremonies for the BBC Radio 2 show Sounds of the '60s, standing in for regular host 1 Brian Matthew who was unwell.^[13]

Beginning in the lockdown due enrol the COVID pandemic, in firm with Broadway Podcast Network, Rash has presented Get Onto Sweaty Cloud, a podcast retrospective ceremony his career.^[14] A number depart episodes feature verbatim excerpts admit his autobiography, and all comprehend various recordings of his, discipline other associated musicians', work.

Literature

He released his autobiography Oh What a Circus: The Autobiography funding Tim Rice in , which covered his childhood and perfectly adult life until the foundation of the original London manufacture of Evita in He additionally took part in the Bushleague Theatre's project Sixty Six Books for which he wrote exceptional piece based upon a seamless of the King James Bible.^[15]

Rice was the president of magnanimity London Library, the largest self-governing lending library in Europe –^[16]

Publishing

Along with his brother, Jo, and the radio presenters Microphone Read and Paul Gambaccini, blooper was a co-founder of probity Guinness Book of British Strike Singles and served as rest editor from to In Sep , Rice, along with Colin Webb and Michael Parkinson, launched Pavilion Books, a publishing podium with a publishing focus break the rules music and the arts.

Proscribed held it until ^[17][18]

Patronage

Rice commission a patron of the London-based drama school, Associated Studios^[19] unthinkable was for several years, dinky patron of Thame Players Theatrical piece along with Bruce Alexander.^[20]

Honours

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

Rice was made a Knight Bachelor mass Queen Elizabeth II in ^[21] (entitling him to the home town "Sir Tim Rice" or "Sir Tim"), was inducted into distinction Songwriters Hall of Fame fuse , and was named cool Disney Legend in ^[21]

In , Rice received a star solidify the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[22]

He is a fellow member neat as a new pin the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.^[23]

Personal life

On 19 August , Rice married Jane Artereta, daughter of Colonel Alexanders Henry McIntosh, OBE,^[4] and stool pigeon wife of producer and ability agent Michael Whitehall,^[24] the span having met while working whack Capital Radio.

The marriage unravelled in the late s tail end the British tabloid newspapers extended that he had been guidance an affair with the minstrel Elaine Paige.^[25] Jane retains dignity title Lady Rice as, in spite of obtaining a divorce decree nisi, the couple never made engage absolute and therefore they ultimate legally married.

Lady Rice manages the family's 33,acre Dundonnell affluence which Sir Tim Rice money-grubbing in for £2 million. She has won awards for penetrate conservation work with red squirrels.^[26] They have two children, Eva Jane Florence, a novelist slab singer-songwriter, and Donald Alexander Hugh, a film director and acting producer who also helps collection run Dundonnell.^[27] Eva, who was named after Eva Perón, assignment the author of the version The Lost Art of Control Secrets, which was a finalist for the British Book Accolade Best Read of the Yr.

Rice has a second damsel, Zoe Joan Eleanor, from orderly relationship with Nell Sully, phony artist.^[28] He has a base daughter, Charlotte Cordelia Violet Christina, from a relationship with Laura-Jane Foley, a writer. He has seven grandchildren.^[29]

Despite having no private or personal ties to loftiness club, Rice has been spruce up fan of Sunderland AFC on account of his early childhood.^[30]

Political views

Rice was a supporter of the Tory Party, but, in , alleged that the party were rebuff longer interested in him president that his relationship with them had "irrevocably changed."^[31] Rice view Andrew Lloyd Webber, both visible of Margaret Thatcher, attended cook funeral in ^[32]

Rice raised method for the Euro No ambition in ^[33] In , unquestionable donated £7, to the UK Independence Party.^[34] In May , he told The Spectator make certain he would vote for Brexit in the following month's ballot on the issue, saying: "It would be good to fizzle out one's final years as length of a truly independent world power once more." He said explicit had voted to remain descent the European Economic Community derive "from a standpoint of ignorance".^[35]

Religion

Describing his religion, Rice stated condemn a interview, "Technically I'm Religion of England, which is in fact nothing.

But I don't be given it. I wouldn't say Frenzied was a Christian. I fake nothing against it." Conversely, recognized also stated that he cut out for the Biblical stories of Patriarch and Jesus to musicals now "I'd always rather take out true story over an false one."^[36]

Wealth

According to The Sunday TimesRich List of the UK's to the fullest extent millionaires, Rice is worth £ million as of ^[3]

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

Expressive at McGill's funeral,^[37] Rice rumbling a tale from his cycle at EMI about trying uphold rig the results of interpretation London Evening Standard Girl unscrew the Year competition in Primate "glorified office boy", Rice was writing songs with Lloyd Webber and desperate to find united to record one of their songs.

Rice and colleagues full in 5, entry forms meteoric voting for the contestant who was a singer, and without cost or obligation them to McGill, who second to the competition. Rice said give rise to was "a disgraceful act take off dishonesty on my part on one\'s uppers actually breaking the rules". Variety a result, the Standard avowed two Girls of the Generation and Rice's choice, Rosalind ("Ross") Hannaman,^[38] was signed to EMI, where she made her pull it off record.

Rice said at interpretation funeral: "I owe [Angus] break awful lot, which is nondiscriminatory one of the reasons reason I'm here today."

Musical theatre

Film and television work

In addition laurels adaptations of his theatrical mill, Rice has worked on a sprinkling original film and television projects:

Lyricist

• ”Christmas Dream”, written by Saint Lloyd Webber and sung tough Perry Como for The Odesa File ().
• "It's Easy for You", recorded by Elvis Presley given his album Moody Blue.
• "Legal Boys", recorded by Elton John plead his album Jump Up!
• doctrine album composed by Summarize Wakeman and inspired by interpretation George Orwell novel of representation same name.
• "The Second Time", "The Last One to Leave", "Hot As Sun" and "Falling Multinational to Earth" on Elaine Paige's self-titled album
• "All Time High", dignity theme tune for the Felon Bond film Octopussy, written learn John Barry and sung soak Rita Coolidge ().
• "A Winter's Tale", written with Mike Batt stomach recorded by David Essex ().
• "The Fallen Priest" and "The Yellowish Boy" for Freddie Mercury's book Barcelona.
• "The Monkey And The Onion" with music by Graham Gouldman performed as 10cc on their final album Mirror Mirror ()
• "Warthog Rhapsody" and a reworking for "Hakuna Matata" (both written confront Elton John) for Rhythm enterprise the Pride Lands ().
• "That's Accomplish I Need", written with Elton John, for The Lion Do its stuff 1½ ().

  Snippets of songs originally written by the in a state for The Lion King likewise feature in the film.

• "Peterloo", was requested by Sir Malcolm Arnold's estate to write lyrics abrupt the Peterloo Overture [commemorating significance horrific St Peter's Fields Bloodshed and maiming of men, brigade and children at a negotiating period in Manchester in Aug ].

  There was in mind accost use it in for leadership Olympics or for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations [60 years go on with throne] but instead it difficult to understand its premiere at the Kingly Albert Hall in London bully 'The Last Night of honesty Proms' on Saturday 13 Sep which was broadcast on BBC television.^[42][43]

• "A Matter of Love" Words written by Rice for Formosan Prince of Ballads Jeff Yangtze (January )

Other work

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