Our Kind of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Our Kind of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Our Kind of Love is a ballad from the 2000 musical "The Beautiful Game" by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The lyrics were written by Ben Elton. Lloyd Webber used a Giacomo Puccini aria as the melody for this song, which he had previously used for the song "The Heart is Slow to Learn" in the 1990s, part of an intended sequel to the Webber musical "Phantom of the Opera". The track was recorded by Kiri Te Kanawa in 1998. She performed it live the same year, as part of a concert to celebrate
The Beautiful Game (musical) to "The Phantom of the Opera", "Love Never Dies". In 1998, Lloyd Webber invited Elton to dinner to discuss the possibility of the latter working on a rewrite of the script for "Starlight Express", updating the humour of the original. Elton declined but suggested the possibility of a new musical, with an entirely original storyline, having observed that most musicals were based upon existing ideas. The two writers settled upon the idea of setting a story amid The Troubles in Belfast. The world premiere of "The Beautiful Game" opened on 26 September 2000 at the Cambridge Theatre in London and