The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber Really Useful Records and Polydor on LP (with a gatefold cover), cassette and CD. 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
Sunset Boulevard (musical) film remake starring Angela Lansbury as a fading musical comedian rather than a silent film star, Sondheim declined, citing his conversation with Wilder. When Lloyd Webber saw the film in the early 1970s, he was inspired to write what he pictured as the title song for a theatrical adaptation, fragments of which he instead incorporated into "Gumshoe". In 1976, after a conversation with Hal Prince, who had the theatrical rights to "Sunset", Lloyd Webber wrote "an idea for the moment when Norma Desmond returns to Paramount Studios"; Lloyd Webber did no further work on the play until after 1989's "Aspects