Tim Rice Tim Rice Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English author and Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and "Evita"; with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote "Chess"; for additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of "The Wizard of Oz"; and for his work with Alan Menken on Disney's "Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast", and the musical "King
Andrew Lloyd Webber that Lloyd Webber had stolen a melody from his own song "Till You", but the court ruled in Lloyd Webber's favour. There was another accusation of plagiarism regarding Pink Floyd. The band released their sixth studio album "Meddle" in 1971, and the sixth track of the album "Echoes" had a riff which Lloyd Webber based his "iconic" organ riff from "Phantom of the opera". Very similar notes were taken, same time signature of 12/8, along with the order of the notes played. Lloyd Webber's pipe organ riff from the opera played: D, C#, C, B, A#, then ascending A#, B,