Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber American Songbook, but unlike Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and many other artists, she had never recorded a complete album of songs by one composer. The songs on the album are all taken from the popular musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber, that he wrote with various lyricists. The oldest song found on the album is from the 1971 musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" which originally opened on Broadway in October of that year. Bringing it up to date the album also includes two songs from "Sunset Boulevard" which had recently premiered on July 12, 1993 in London's West End. Four songs had
The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) David Cullen, for a virtuoso cello version for cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, Andrew's brother, for the CD "Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber". Ray Repp sued Andrew Lloyd Webber over the main melody of Phantom, claiming that it was based on his folk song "Till You" which he recorded in 1978. Webber won the case however, with the counter-claim that the section of "Phantom" in question was actually based on Webber's "Close Every Door", which was written before Till You. Repp ultimately lost the case. In addition, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd had asserted that Andrew Lloyd Webber had plagiarised the