The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber Really Useful Records and Polydor on LP (with a gatefold cover), cassette and CD. The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a 1988 compilation album, bringing together some of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's best known compositions at the time of release. It includes songs from the musicals "The Phantom of the Opera", "Tell Me on a Sunday", "Evita", "Cats", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Starlight Express" and "Requiem". Co-writers of the songs include Tim Rice, Don Black, Richard Stilgoe, Charles Hart and Trevor Nunn. The album spent two weeks at
The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) "The Phantom of the Opera" is a song from the stage musical of the same name. It was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and additional lyrics by Mike Batt. The song was originally recorded by Sarah Brightman and Steve Harley, which became a UK hit single in 1986, prior to the musical. In its theatrical debut, it was sung by Brightman and Michael Crawford in their roles as Christine Daaé and the Phantom. The song is performed in Act I after the