What is your favourite song of Andrew Loyd Webber?
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Don't Cry for me Argentina - Evita
Chaiyya Chaiyya - Bombay Dreams
Shakkalakka Baby - Bombay Dreams
The Phantom of the Opera
I would rate :
1) Chaiyya Chaiyya
2) Don't Cry for me Argentina
3) Shakkalakka Baby
4) The Phantom of the Opera -
the whole POTO
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what u all think is his best project to date?
For me it is Bombay Dreams. Sheer spellbinding. But it is not his work. He remixed some songs from from India -
POTO definitely
the one with sarah brightman -
what Cds of his u have?
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For me it is bombay dreams , more modern and funkier. I ended up loving a lot of the music on it really stand out ones Chaiyya Chaiyya and Shakkallaka baby. THey orginal maker is not Andrew, it by an indian music maker. Chaiyya Chaiyya is part the OST of this hit song from the Bollywood film DilSe (accordng to a friend), a smash hit song from 1998. I had see the song performed atop of a moving train......also one of the world's top best songs. When listen to it, u cant get it out of your head. Now there's english remix of it even better
Andrew was just producer of this Bombay Dreams, the songs actually done by the indian guy.The guy is like Amon Tobin , mostly doing techo-ishy stuff in India. Indeed his sound is better than Amon Tobin.heard that he rocks big time in tamil and hindhi...But have u ever heard some of his other stuff, is pretty much more high tech ,different and sophisticated. He did some chinese songs as well..
(one of his songs by Jolin Tsai?),
On the radio it said this song was by a person from india
U actually believe this is a chinese song made by a indian musician?
very very not Indian at all. Pure chinese. How this guy did it, he must be very talented? -
no, 2 and 4
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Think of Me... was in that movie Phantom of the Opera.. is that by Loyd?
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Here is said so:Originally posted by alexkusu:Think of Me... was in that movie Phantom of the Opera.. is that by Loyd?
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell Me On A Sunday later combined as Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game and The Woman in White. He composed the film scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File, and a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass Requiem for which he won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition.
He has also produced in the West End and on Broadway not only his own work but the Olivier award-winning plays La Bête and Daisy Pulls It Off. In summer 2002 in London he presented the groundbreaking A R Rahman musical Bombay Dreams.
In 2004 he completed the film version of The Phantom of the Opera directed by Joel Schumacher.
He has been a theatre owner since acquiring the Palace Theatre in 1983 and now owns eight London theatres including the Palace, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the London Palladium.
His awards include seven Tonys, three Grammys, six Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, an International Emmy, the Praemium Imperiale and the Richard Rodgers award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. The Beautiful Game, which used the sectarian war in Northern Ireland as a metaphor of the tragedy of religious conflict worldwide, was his first to receive the London Critic’s Circle Award.
He was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997. -
Which is better in your opinion Bombay Dreams or Phantom of the Opera?
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Between these 2, I would choose Phantom of the Opera as not only the lyrics has a deep meaning to it, the music is very emotional.Originally posted by The Count of Monte-Cristo:Which is better in your opinion Bombay Dreams or Phantom of the Opera?
But my own preference would be a less known 'Superstar' -
Phantom of the Opera Yes and so i agree, Howabout the song "closer than ever"? (Bombay Dreams). Phantom of the Opera is a classical western.Originally posted by PriscillaTang:Between these 2, I would choose Phantom of the Opera as not only the lyrics has a deep meaning to it, the music is very emotional.
But my own preference would be a less known 'Superstar'
Bombay Dreams is more in current trends. Let me just tell u, the original creator of Bombay Dreams is not Andrew. It is ar rahman. some popular musician from india. u can see the differemce, because andrew does not like to have pop music like shakkalakka baby. arrhman is techno musician like amon tobin. i am not familir (except for the song by Jolin Tsai)with it but give me a rough idea that he's a "computer gimmick person" but some people say he make music which is a decade ahead of time .Andrew thinks the guy is his successor in an interview i read before (below).
Showbusiness: Lloyd Webber passes his mantle to a star of India
By NIGEL REYNOLDS
Saturday Premiere
HOT NEWS. There will be a brand new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in London next year - or, to be strictly accurate, a new musical that has been forged, hammered and produced by him, but will not feature any of his music.
Work is progressing so fast on Bombay Dreams that Lloyd Webber tells me it will hit the West End next April. Extraordinarily, he claims that the composer is so good that he could be the key to the future of the musical genre.
His new protege, Abdul Rahman, 35, has written the music for more than 50 Bollywood films as well as numerous hit pop tunes. When Lloyd Webber heard his music on British television for the first time, he persuaded the film director Shekhar Kapur to effect an introduction between them.
Since then, Rahman has been flying back and forth between Bombay and London. He has now completed almost 16 songs for Bombay Dreams. Meera Syal (the wit behind Goodness Gracious Me) is writing the story (based on a five-page outline by Lloyd Webber and Kapur) and Steven Pimlott has already been hired to direct.
"I haven't heard a musical in the last 20 years which has got such good tunes," says Lloyd Webber - which is some compliment from the composer of Cats, Evita, Phantom, etc.
"Rahman is fantastic. His music is so beautiful, and I believe what he is writing is so far ahead of the game that we could be talking about the future of musicals for a very long time."
Just as pop music needed new influences from world music, so musicals need fresh infusion from other continents, he says. "I thought when the Iron Curtain came down that it would come from Russia. It didn't. Now, I'm sure that it is coming from India.
"I really look on Rahman as someone I can pass the mantle on to."
The plot, he says, is set in Bollywood. It features the daughter of a wealthy Bombay film producer who falls in love with a man from the slums, and their story is the struggle of love over prejudice.
"I think the old Lloyd Webber audience will go to this, but we are also after a new audience," he adds.
The first auditions have already been held, but Lloyd Webber is having difficulty finding the right British Asian actors. "Anybody who can help, please get in touch. I'll give you a clue what we're looking for - for the lead, we want a Hindi answer to John Travolta." -
All I Ask Of You, and Music Of The Night.
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Dracula is turning into munnabhai!
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I like those songs also esp. All I Ask Of You...Originally posted by Kuali Baba:All I Ask Of You, and Music Of The Night.
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"Memories" from "Cats" is the nicest Andrew Lloyd Webber song, in my opinion.
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The Phantom of The Opera, without a doubt.
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well i have only heard the original indian version of that shakalaka baby,but if it sounds anything like that,it is pretty groovy and i think i will still like it but still it will not surpass my liking for phantom of the opera esp music of the night.