Harvey Brownstone Interviews...

Harvey Brownstone Interviews Sir Tim Rice, Legendary Lyricist and EGOT Winner

April 06, 2023 Harvey Brownstone Season 3 Episode 32
Harvey Brownstone Interviews...
Harvey Brownstone Interviews Sir Tim Rice, Legendary Lyricist and EGOT Winner
Show Notes

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Sir Tim Rice, Legendary Lyricist and EGOT Winner 

About Harvey's guest: 

Today’s very special guest, Sir Tim Rice, is a man whose monumental contributions to the world of musical theatre can hardly be overstated.   

His collaborations with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on the phenomenally successful and beloved shows, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat”, “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Evita”, brought him worldwide acclaim, as one of the greatest and most innovative lyricists of the modern age.    

He went on to co-write “Blondel” with Stephen Oliver, and “Chess”, with Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA.  With Sir Elton John, he wrote “The Lion King”, “Aida”, and “The Road to El Dorado”.   

He collaborated with Alan Menken on “Aladdin”, “King David”, and the theatrical production AND live action re-make of “Beauty and the Beast”, which is the highest-grossing live action musical of all time.   

He co-wrote a musical called “Heathcliff”, based on Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights”, which produced a wonderful album featuring Sir Cliff Richard and the late Olivia Newton-John.   

And with composer Stuart Brayson, he co-wrote the musical production, “From Here to Eternity”, based on the 1953 James Jones novel.    This man’s list of accomplishments is nothing short of jaw-dropping.    His shows have broken box office records in the West End, on Broadway, and around the world.    

Many of his songs have become global #1 hits, including “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”, “Don’t Cry for me Argentina”, “I Know Him So Well”, “Someday Out of the Blue” – and he even wrote the lyrics to my favourite song from a James Bond movie, “All Time High”, from “Octopussy”, recorded by Rita Coolidge.    

And speaking of #1 hits, he’s won THREE Academy Awards and THREE Golden Globe Awards for his songs “A Whole New World” from “Aladdin”, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King”, and “You Must Love Me”, from the 1996 movie, “Evita”.  He received 2 more Oscar nominations for “Circle of Life” and “Hakuna Matata” from “The Lion King”.  He’s been nominated for 9 Tony Awards and won 3 – 2 for “Evita” and 1 for “Aida”.  In fact, “Evita” was the 1st British musical to win the Tony award for Best Musical.  He’s been nominated for 12 Grammy awards, and won FIVE.   

And, in 2018, when he won an Emmy award for the live TV performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar”, he became an EGOT winner, one of only 18 people in the world to have won the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.   He’s been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the American Theatre Hall of Fame.  And in recognition of his work in film and theatre, he was inducted as a Disney Legend.  He’s received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.   

And last but most certainly not least, in 1994 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. 

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