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 Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Peter Jöback and Erkan Aki. What makes this particular song unique within the musical is its unusual hard rock style, since most of the songs in the musical have a more operatic style. Early in the musical's production, Andrew Lloyd Webber met Jim Steinman, who described "The Phantom of the Opera" as a rock song invading an opera house. This is what inspired the hard rock style of the song, which influenced all of the rock-based instruments in the song including drums and electric guitar. "The Phantom of the Opera" song was also specially arranged by the show's original orchestrator,