Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber was married to Sarah Hugill from 1971 to 1983 until their divorce. The couple has two children: Imogen Llyod Webber and Nicholas Llyod Webber.

His second marriage was to Sarah Brightman, the singer, in 1984. They divorced in 1990.

He next married Madeleine Gurdon in February 1991. They have three children: Alastair Adam, William Richard, and Isabella Aurora. The family lives in Sydmonton Court in Hampshire.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March 1948, to William Lloyd Webber and Jean Hermione Johnstone, in Kensington, London. His parents were deeply invested in music and were accomplished players themselves. His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a reputed musician as well.

Lloyd’s surroundings were conducive for his talent to be nurtured and he started creating music at the age of nine, producing a suite of six musical pieces. He also managed to put on playful productions of these with his brother and Aunt.

He attended Westminster School as a Queen’s Scholar in 1965 and later enrolled at Magdalen College in Oxford to study history but dropped out in 1965 to study musical theatre at Royal College of Music.

In 1965, he collaborated with Tim Rice to produce ‘The Likes of Us’, a musical on Thomas John Barnado. Despite the good score, the project failed to take off and was not publicly performed until 2005.

In 1967, the duo was commissioned by Alan Doggett to write a piece for the school choir. The result was ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’, inspired by various genres.

In 1970, the duo worked on ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, which was an immediate success. The musical was performed at the West End.

In 1972, their debut musical ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ was expanded into a full-length stage performance and was performed in the West End.

Rice and Webber planned to work on a musical based on the novels by P. G. Wodehouse, but Rice left the project. Webber continued with the musical and wrote ‘Jeeves’ with Alan Ayckbourn. However, it didn’t make any initial impression.

Andrew Lloyd Webber donned the hat of a restaurant critic when he wrote the column ‘Matters of Taste’ for the Daily Telegraph. He reviewed restaurants from 1995 to 2000.

He is an avid art enthusiast and collects Victorian art. Some of his collections have been auctioned off for his charity.