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 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,