Andrew Lloyd Webber "Jeeves" failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a run of only three weeks in 1975. Many years later, Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn revisited this project, producing a thoroughly reworked and more successful version entitled "By Jeeves" (1996). Only two of the songs from the original production remained ("Half a Moment" and "Banjo Boy"). Lloyd Webber collaborated with Rice once again to write "Evita" (1978 in London/1979 in U.S.), a musical based on the life of Eva Perón. As with "Jesus Christ Superstar", Evita was released first as a concept album (1976) and featured Julie
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