The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) the screen. In the "Behind the Mask" documentary, Richard Stilgoe described the video as "wonderful, as over-the-top as you can get". Cameron Mackinstosh said: "Ken Russell came up with the most brilliant, outrageous video. It's fantastic fun, and completely over-the-top, which of course Andrew and I loved." The British guitarist Hank Marvin did an instrumental version of the song on his 1997 album "Hank Plays the Music of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber". The song "The Phantom of the Opera" was covered in 1998 by Charlotte Church and Peter Karrie. It was covered in 2002 by the Finnish symphonic
Julian Lloyd Webber "Front Row" and "The World Tonight". In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin, and Richard Hickox. In September 2014, the charity Live Music Now announced Lloyd Webber as its next public spokesman. On 28 April 2014, he announced his retirement from public performance as a cellist because of a herniated disc in his neck. His final public performance as a cellist was on 2 May 2014 at the Festival Theatre, Malvern, with the English Chamber Orchestra when he played the Barjansky Stradivarius cello (dated c. 1690) which