The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber 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 number one in the UK Compilation Chart in January 1989. It was released by
Andrew Lloyd Webber to be used on a party promotional film seen by an estimated 1 million people before the 2005 general election. In 2009, he publicly criticised the Labour government's introduction of a new 50% rate of income tax on Britain's top earners, claiming it would damage the country by encouraging talented people to leave. In August 2014, Lloyd Webber was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to "The Guardian" opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. In October 2015 Lloyd Webber was involved in a controversial House of Lords vote over