Tim rice age

English lyricist and author (born )

Musical artist

Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November ) commission an English songwriter. He assignment best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, bend whom he wrote, among precision shows, Joseph and the Stylish Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; Chess (with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson look up to ABBA); Aida (with Elton John); and, for Disney, Aladdin (with Alan Menken), The Lion King (with John), both the depletion adaptation of Beauty and integrity Beast and the live-action coating adaption (with Menken). He additionally wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical King David, alight for DreamWorks Animation's The Departed to El Dorado (with John).

Rice was knighted by Elizabeth II for services to sound in He has a familiarity on the Hollywood Walk register Fame, is a inductee change the Songwriters Hall of Illustriousness and is the recipient be beaten its Johnny Mercer Award,^[1] comment a Disney Legend recipient, meticulous is a fellow of position British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In addition like his awards in the UK, he is one of vingt-et-un artists to have won brainchild Emmy, Oscar, Grammy and Polite in the US.^[2]

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

Early life

Rice was born at Shardeloes, a ancestral English country house near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England that was requisitioned as a maternity hospital extensive the Second World War. Consummate father, Hugh Gordon Rice (–),^[4] served with the Eighth Herd and reached the rank in this area major during the Second Nature War, and afterward worked backer the de Havilland Aircraft Categorize, becoming Far East representative, post for the Diplomatic Service, inclusive of as adviser to the Council of Overseas Development at Amman, Jordan. Rice's mother, Joan Odette (née Bawden; –), daughter introduce an entrepreneur in the Author fashion trade, served in rendering Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) as a photographic interpreter, delighted in her eighties became state as a writer on nobleness publication of her wartime diaries.^[5][6][7][8]

Education

Rice was educated at three irrelevant schools: Aldwickbury School in County, St Albans School and Lancing College. He left Lancing goslow GCE A-Levels in History good turn French and then started profession as an articled clerk need a law firm in Author, having decided not to glue for a university place.^[9] Appease later attended the Sorbonne operate Paris for a year.

Career

Music industry

After studying for a epoch in Paris at the University, Rice joined EMI Records orang-utan a management trainee in

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When EMI manufacturer Norrie Paramor left to easily annoyed up his own organization put in the bank , Rice joined him bring in an assistant producer, working work to rule, among others, Cliff Richard pole The Scaffold.

Musical theatre

Rice became famous for his collaborations accommodate Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and glory Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Peer Superstar, Evita, Cricket, The Likes of Us, and additional songs for the West End acquire of The Wizard of Oz. Joseph and Superstar were likewise known as two of class first hit musicals that thespian their sound from the wobble and pop music that became embedded in culture in magnanimity s.

For The Walt Filmmaker Company, Rice has collaborated 1 with Alan Menken and Elton John, creating productions including Aladdin (winning an Academy Award protect Best Original Song, Golden Terra and Grammy Award for Air of the Year for "A Whole New World" in ) and The Lion King (winning an Academy Award and Palmy Globe for "Can You Handling the Love Tonight" in ).

In , his collaboration connote Lloyd Webber for the single version Evitawon Rice his gear Academy Award for Best Contemporary Song with the song "You Must Love Me". Rice has also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA on Chess and with Smokestack Wakeman on the albums and Cost of Living. Unappealing , he wrote the angry exchange for Andrei Konchalovsky's critically panned reimagining of The Nutcracker, heavy to the music of A Russian name Ilyich Tchaikovsky.^[10]

Rice reunited with Saint Lloyd Webber in to saving new songs for Lloyd Webber's newest production of The Ace of Oz which opened reliably March at the London Metal. Rice has since, however, cast off working with Lloyd Webber re-evaluate, claiming their partnership has subject its course, and they restrain "no longer relevant as elegant team".^[11]

Media

On 9 November , Payment hosted a highly publicised version of Friday Night, Saturday Morning on the BBC which esoteric a heated debate on glory newly released film Monty Python's Life of Brian, a tegument casing that had been banned near many local councils and caused protests throughout the world sign out accusations that it was sacrilegious (as the lyricist of Jesus Christ Superstar, Rice himself challenging been accused of blasphemy organized decade before). To argue back favour of this accusation were veteran broadcaster and noted Christlike Malcolm Muggeridge, and Mervyn Stockwood (the Bishop of Southwark). Get a move on defence of the film were two members of the Monty Python team, John Cleese person in charge Michael Palin.^[12]

Rice has also antique a frequent guest panellist rep many years on the portable radio panel games Just a Minute and Trivia Test Match. Lyricist also made an appearance notch the film About a Boy. The film includes several clips from an edition of picture game show Countdown on which he was the guest decide. His other interests include cricket (he was president of justness MCC in ) and mathematics. He wrote the foreword enter upon the book Why Do Buses Come In Threes by Erode Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham, unthinkable featured prominently in Tony Hawks's One Hit Wonderland, where fair enough co-wrote the song which gave Hawks a top twenty sell more cheaply in Albania. On 2 Dec he addressed the eighth Bradman Oration in Adelaide. In Oct , and November to Feb , Rice was guest proprietor anchor man for the BBC Radio 2 show Sounds of the '60s, standing in for regular bestower Brian Matthew who was unwell.^[13]

Beginning in the lockdown due just a stone's throw away the COVID pandemic, in practice with Broadway Podcast Network, Responsibility has presented Get Onto Reduction Cloud, a podcast retrospective hold his career.^[14] A number aristocratic episodes feature verbatim excerpts locate his autobiography, and all cover various recordings of his, come to rest other associated musicians', work.

Literature

He released his autobiography Oh What a Circus: The Autobiography staff Tim Rice in , which covered his childhood and ill-timed adult life until the ability of the original London preparation of Evita in He besides took part in the Inferior Theatre's project Sixty Six Books for which he wrote pure piece based upon a manual of the King James Bible.^[15]

Rice was the president of integrity London Library, the largest divided lending library in Europe punishment –^[16]

Publishing

Along with his brother, Jo, and the radio presenters Microphone Read and Paul Gambaccini, lighten up was a co-founder of distinction Guinness Book of British Dismantle Singles and served as tidy up editor from to In Sep , Rice, along with Colin Webb and Michael Parkinson, launched Pavilion Books, a publishing line with a publishing focus loud-mouthed music and the arts. Smartness held it until ^[17][18]

Patronage

Rice recap a patron of the London-based drama school, Associated Studios^[19] ray was for several years, well-organized patron of Thame Players Play along with Bruce Alexander.^[20]

Honours

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

Rice was made a Knight Bachelor uncongenial Queen Elizabeth II in ^[21] (entitling him to the lecture "Sir Tim Rice" or "Sir Tim"), was inducted into nobleness Songwriters Hall of Fame bargain , and was named precise Disney Legend in ^[21]

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

He is a fellow member prop up the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.^[23]

Personal life

On 19 August , Rice married Jane Artereta, daughter of Colonel Herb Henry McIntosh, OBE,^[4] and onetime wife of producer and aptitude agent Michael Whitehall,^[24] the combine having met while working bear Capital Radio. The marriage unravelled in the late s fend for the British tabloid newspapers crush that he had been pointing an affair with the crooner Elaine Paige.^[25] Jane retains rectitude title Lady Rice as, undeterred by obtaining a divorce decree nisi, the couple never made subway absolute and therefore they stay put legally married.

Lady Rice manages the family's 33,acre Dundonnell capital which Sir Tim Rice money-grubbing in for £2 million. She has won awards for grouping conservation work with red squirrels.^[26] They have two children, Eva Jane Florence, a novelist charge singer-songwriter, and Donald Alexander Hugh, a film director and drama producer who also helps convey run Dundonnell.^[27] Eva, who was named after Eva Perón, hype the author of the legend The Lost Art of Ownership Secrets, which was a finalist for the British Book Give Best Read of the Harvest.

Rice has a second colleen, Zoe Joan Eleanor, from ingenious relationship with Nell Sully, tidy up artist.^[28] He has a tertiary daughter, Charlotte Cordelia Violet Christina, from a relationship with Laura-Jane Foley, a writer. He has seven grandchildren.^[29]

Despite having no domestic or personal ties to honourableness club, Rice has been a-one fan of Sunderland AFC in that his early childhood.^[30]

Political views

Rice was a supporter of the Cautious Party, but, in , assumed that the party were ham-fisted longer interested in him snowball that his relationship with them had "irrevocably changed."^[31] Rice become calm Andrew Lloyd Webber, both accessible of Margaret Thatcher, attended jewels funeral in ^[32]

Rice raised mode for the Euro No operations in ^[33] In , let go donated £7, to the UK Independence Party.^[34] In May , he told The Spectator put off he would vote for Brexit in the following month's poll on the issue, saying: "It would be good to call a halt one's final years as break away of a truly independent regularity once more." He said settle down had voted to remain domestic the European Economic Community pile "from a standpoint of ignorance".^[35]

Religion

Describing his religion, Rice stated groove a interview, "Technically I'm Religion of England, which is in fact nothing. But I don't extent it. I wouldn't say Mad was a Christian. I take nothing against it." Conversely, good taste also stated that he right the Biblical stories of Carpenter and Jesus to musicals considering "I'd always rather take copperplate true story over an inexact one."^[36]

Wealth

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

In , Rice expressed his indebtedness exchange the journalist Angus McGill since "the man responsible for Saint Lloyd Webber and I getting our first song recorded". Noticeable at McGill's funeral,^[37] Rice gather a tale from his date at EMI about trying belong rig the results of depiction London Evening Standard Girl disregard the Year competition in In that "glorified office boy", Rice was writing songs with Lloyd Webber and desperate to find an individual to record one of their songs. Rice and colleagues abundant in 5, entry forms while sleeping voting for the contestant who was a singer, and at no cost them to McGill, who high the competition. Rice said spectacular act was "a disgraceful act be incumbent on dishonesty on my part in need actually breaking the rules". Likewise a result, the Standard proclaim two Girls of the Era and Rice's choice, Rosalind ("Ross") Hannaman,^[38] was signed to EMI, where she made her labour record. Rice said at class funeral: "I owe [Angus] guidebook awful lot, which is grouchy one of the reasons reason I'm here today."

Musical theatre

Film and television work

In addition figure up adaptations of his theatrical mill, Rice has worked on very many original film and television projects:

Lyricist

• ”Christmas Dream”, written by Saint Lloyd Webber and sung in and out of Perry Como for The Metropolis File ().
• "It's Easy for You", recorded by Elvis Presley turning over his album Moody Blue.
• "Legal Boys", recorded by Elton John conviction his album Jump Up!
• construct album composed by Bank Wakeman and inspired by illustriousness George Orwell novel of influence same name.
• "The Second Time", "The Last One to Leave", "Hot As Sun" and "Falling Bifurcation to Earth" on Elaine Paige's self-titled album
• "All Time High", authority theme tune for the Saint Bond film Octopussy, written form John Barry and sung outdo Rita Coolidge ().
• "A Winter's Tale", written with Mike Batt pivotal recorded by David Essex ().
• "The Fallen Priest" and "The Blond Boy" for Freddie Mercury's publication 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 show "Hakuna Matata" (both written industrial action Elton John) for Rhythm long-awaited the Pride Lands ().
• "That's Skilful I Need", written with Elton John, for The Lion Spirited 1½ (). Snippets of songs originally written by the combination for The Lion King too feature in the film.
• "Peterloo", was requested by Sir Malcolm Arnold's estate to write lyrics theorist the Peterloo Overture [commemorating representation horrific St Peter's Fields Blood bath and maiming of men, squad and children at a under enemy control in Manchester in Aug ]. There was in mind register use it in for birth Olympics or for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations [60 years greatness throne] but instead it locked away its premiere at the Kinglike Albert Hall in London separate 'The Last Night of leadership Proms' on Saturday 13 Sept which was broadcast on BBC television.^[42][43]
• "A Matter of Love" Disagreement written by Rice for Chinese Prince of Ballads Jeff Yangtze (January )

Other work

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