Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English lyricist and author. He is best known for his collaborations with

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, with whom he wrote, among other shows, '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'', '' Jesus Christ Superstar'', and '' Evita''; with

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and Benny Andersson of

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, with whom he wrote ''

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''; and with Disney on ''

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, The Lion King'', the stage adaptation of '' Beauty and the Beast'', and the original Broadway musical ''

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''. He also wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical '' King David'', and for DreamWorks Animation's ''

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''. Rice was

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ed by

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for services to music in 1994. He has a star on the

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, is an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, is a Disney Legend recipient, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In addition to his awards in the UK, he is one of seventeen artists to have won an Emmy, Oscar, Grammy and Tony in the US. Rice twice hosted the Brit Awards (in 1983 and 1984). The 2020 '' Sunday Times Rich List'' values Rice at £155m; the 21st-richest music millionaire in the UK.

Early life

Rice was born at Shardeloes, a historic

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near Amersham,

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, England that was requisitioned as a maternity hospital during the

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. His father, Hugh Gordon Rice (1917–1988),Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3327 served with the Eighth Army and reached the rank of major during the Second World War, and afterward worked for the de Havilland Aircraft Company, becoming Far East representative, and for the Diplomatic Service, including as adviser to the Ministry of Overseas Development at Amman,

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. Rice's mother, Joan Odette (née Bawden; 1919–2009), daughter of an entrepreneur in the London fashion trade, served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) as a photographic interpreter, and in her eighties became known as a writer on the publication of her wartime diaries.

Education

Rice was educated at three independent schools: Aldwickbury School in Hertfordshire, St Albans School and

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. He left Lancing with GCE A-Levels in History and French and then started work as an

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for a law firm in London, having decided not to apply for a university place. He later attended the Sorbonne in

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for a year.

Career

Music industry

After studying for a year in Paris at the Sorbonne, Rice joined EMI Records as a management trainee in 1966. When EMI producer Norrie Paramor left to set up his own organization in 1968, Rice joined him as an assistant producer, working with, among others,

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and

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Musical theatre

Rice became famous for his collaborations with

, with whom he wrote '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'', '' Jesus Christ Superstar'', '' Evita'', ''

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'', '' The Likes of Us,'' and additional songs for the 2011 West End production of ''

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''. ''Joseph'' and ''Superstar'' were additionally known as two of the first hit musicals that drew their sound from the rock and pop music that became embedded in culture in the 1960s. For

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, Rice has collaborated individually with

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and

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, creating productions including ''

'' (winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for Song of the Year for " A Whole New World" in 1992) and '' The Lion King'' (winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe for " Can You Feel the Love Tonight" in 1994). In 1996, his collaboration with Lloyd Webber for the film version '' Evita''

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Rice his third Academy Award for Best Original Song with the song " You Must Love Me". Rice has also collaborated with

and Benny Andersson of

on ''

'' and with Rick Wakeman on the albums '' 1984'' and ''Cost of Living''. In 2009, he wrote the lyrics for Andrei Konchalovsky's critically panned

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of '' The Nutcracker'', set to the music of

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. Rice reunited with Andrew Lloyd Webber in 2011 to pen new songs for Lloyd Webber's newest production of ''

'' which opened in March 2011 at the London Palladium. Rice has since, however, rejected working with Lloyd Webber again, claiming their partnership has run its course, and they are "no longer relevant as a team".

Media

On 9 November 1979, Rice hosted a highly publicised edition of '' Friday Night, Saturday Morning'' on the BBC which had a heated debate on the newly released film '' Monty Python's Life of Brian'', a film that had been banned by many local councils and caused protests throughout the world with accusations that it was blasphemous (as the lyricist of ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', Rice himself had been accused of blasphemy a decade before). To argue in favour of this accusation were veteran broadcaster and noted Christian Malcolm Muggeridge, and Mervyn Stockwood (the Bishop of Southwark). In defence of the film were two members of the Monty Python team, John Cleese and

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. He has also been a frequent guest panellist for many years on the radio panel games '' Just a Minute'' and ''

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''. Rice also made an appearance in the film '' About a Boy''. The film includes several clips from an edition of the game show '' Countdown'' on which he was the guest adjudicator. His other interests include cricket (he was president of the MCC in 2002) and maths. He wrote the foreword to the book ''Why Do Buses Come In Threes'' by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham, and featured prominently in Tony Hawks's ''

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'', where he co-wrote the song which gave Hawks a top twenty hit in Albania. On 2 December 2010 he addressed the eighth Bradman Oration in

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. In October 2011, and November 2016 to February 2017, Rice was guest presenter for the

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show ''

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'', standing in for regular presenter Brian Matthew who was unwell. Beginning in the lockdown due to the

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, in partnership with Broadway Podcast Network, Rice has presented ''Get Onto My Cloud'', a

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retrospective of his career. A number of episodes feature verbatim excerpts of his autobiography, and all include various recordings of his, and other associated musicians’, work.

Literature

He released his autobiography ''Oh What a Circus: The Autobiography of Tim Rice'' in 1998, which covered his childhood and early adult life until the opening of the original London production of '' Evita'' in 1978. He also took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project ''

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'' for which he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible. Rice is the current president of

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, the largest independent lending library in Europe.

Publishing

Along with his brother, Jo, and the radio presenters

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and Paul Gambaccini, he was a co-founder of the '' Guinness Book of British Hit Singles'' and served as an editor from 1977 to 1996. In September 1981, Rice, along with Colin Webb and Michael Parkinson, launched Pavilion Books, a publishing house with a publishing focus on music and the arts. He held it until 1997.

Patronage

Rice is a patron of the London-based drama school, Associated Studios and is also a patron of Thame Players Theatre along with Bruce Alexander.

Honours

Rice was made a

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in 1994 (entitling him to the address "Sir Tim Rice" or "Sir Tim"), was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and was named a Disney Legend in 2002. In 2008, Rice received a star on the

. He is a fellow member of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

Personal life

On 19 August 1974, Rice married Jane Artereta, daughter of Colonel Alexander Henry McIntosh,

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, and former wife of producer and talent agent Michael Whitehall, the couple having met while working at Capital Radio. The marriage unravelled in the late 1980s after the British tabloid newspapers revealed that he had been conducting an affair with the singer Elaine Paige. Jane retains the title Lady Rice as, despite obtaining a divorce decree nisi, the couple never made it absolute and therefore they remain technically married. Lady Rice manages the family's 33,000-acre Dundonnell estate which Sir Tim Rice bought in 1998 for £2 million. She has won awards for her conservation work with red squirrels. They have two children, Eva Jane Florence, a novelist and singer-songwriter, and Donald Alexander Hugh, a film director and theatre producer who also helps to run Dundonnell. Eva, who was named after Eva Perón, is the author of the novel ''The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets'', which was a finalist for the

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Best Read of the Year. Rice has a second daughter, Zoe Joan Eleanor, from a relationship with Nell Sully, an artist. He has a third daughter, Charlotte Cordelia Violet Christina, from a relationship with

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, a writer. He has seven grandchildren. Despite having no familial or personal ties to the club, Rice has been a fan of Sunderland AFC since his early childhood.

Politics

Rice was a supporter of the Conservative Party, but in 2007 stated that the Conservatives were no longer interested in him and that his relationship with the party had "irrevocably changed." Rice and

, both supporters of

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, attended her funeral in 2013. Rice raised funds for the Euro No campaign in 2000. In 2014 he was a donor to the UK Independence Party. In May 2016, he told '' The Spectator'' that he would vote for

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in the following month's referendum on the issue, saying: "It would be good to spend one's final years as part of a truly independent nation once more." He said he had voted to remain in the European Economic Community in 1975 "from a standpoint of ignorance".

Religion

Describing his religion, Rice stated in a 1982 interview, "Technically I'm

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, which is really nothing. But I don't follow it. I wouldn't say I was a

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. I have nothing against it." Conversely, he also stated that he adapted the biblical stories of Joseph and Jesus to musicals because "I'd always rather take a true story over an untrue one."

Wealth

According to ''

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'' Rich List of the UK's richest millionaires, Rice is worth £155 million as of 2020. In 2015, Rice expressed his indebtedness to the journalist

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as "the man responsible for Andrew Lloyd Webber and I having our first song recorded". Speaking at McGill's funeral, Rice told a tale from his days at EMI about trying to rig the results of the ''

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'' Girl of the Year competition in 1967. As "glorified office boy", Rice was writing songs with Lloyd Webber and desperate to find anybody to record one of their songs. Rice and colleagues filled in 5,000 entry forms overnight voting for the contestant who was a singer, and delivered them to McGill, who supervised the competition. Rice said it was "a disgraceful act of dishonesty on my part... without actually breaking the rules". As a result, the ''Standard'' proclaimed two Girls of the Year and Rice's choice, Rosalind ("Ross") Hannaman, was signed to EMI, where she made her first record. Rice said at the funeral: "I owe ngusan awful lot, which is just one of the reasons why I'm here today."

Musical theatre

*1968 – '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' with music by

*1970 – '' Jesus Christ Superstar'' with music by Lloyd Webber *1976 – '' Evita'' with music by Lloyd Webber *1983 – '' Blondel'' with music by Stephen Oliver *1984 – ''

'' with music by Benny Andersson and

*1986 – ''

'' with music by Lloyd Webber *1992 – '' Tycoon'' with music by Michel Berger (English-language adaptation of the 1979 French musical ''Starmania'', with original French lyrics by Luc Plamondon) *1994 – '' Beauty and the Beast'' with music by

for 9 new songs; remaining songs feature the lyrics of Howard Ashman, as written for the 1991 film. *1996 – '' Heathcliff'' with music by John Farrar *1997 – '' The Lion King'' with music by

*1997 – '' King David'' with music by Menken *2000 – ''

'' with music by Elton John *2005 – '' The Likes of Us'' with music by Lloyd Webber (written in 1965, but first staged at the Sydmonton Festival on 9 July 2005) *2011 – ''

'' with music by Lloyd Webber for 6 new songs; also additional lyrics for 4 songs with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. The remaining 13 songs are solely by Arlen and Harburg. *2011 – ''

'' with music by Menken and additional lyrics by Ashman and Chad Beguelin. Based on the film. *2013 – '' From Here to Eternity'' with music by Stuart Brayson, based on the

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novel of the same name

Film and television work

In addition to adaptations of his theatrical productions, Rice has worked on several original film and television projects: *1983 – '' Octopussy''; theme song " All Time High" with music by John Barry and sung by Rita Coolidge *1992 – ''

'' with music and score by

; completed work begun by Howard Ashman *1994 – '' The Lion King'' with music by

, score by

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*2000 – ''

'' with music by Elton John, score by Hans Zimmer and John Powell *2009 – '' The Nutcracker in 3D'' with music by

and score by Eduard Artemyev *2017 – '' Beauty and the Beast'' with music and score by Alan Menken; additional three songs *2019 – ''

'' with music and score by Alan Menken; new compositions with Pasek and Paul *2019 – '' The Lion King'' with music by Elton John and score by Hans Zimmer

Lyricist

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”, written by

and sung by Perry Como for ''The Odessa File'' (1974). *" It's Easy for You", recorded by

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on his album '' Moody Blue''. *"Legal Boys", recorded by

on his album '' Jump Up!'' *1981 concept album '' 1984'' composed by Rick Wakeman and inspired by the

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novel of the same name. *"The Second Time", "The Last One to Leave", "Hot As Sun" and "Falling Down to Earth" on Elaine Paige's 1981 self-titled album *" All Time High", the theme tune to the James Bond film, '' Octopussy'', written with John Barry and sung by Rita Coolidge (1983). *" A Winter's Tale", written with

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and recorded by David Essex (1982). *"The Fallen Priest" and "The Golden Boy" for

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's 1988 album ''

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''. *"Warthog Rhapsody" and a reworking of " Hakuna Matata" (both written with Elton John) for '' Rhythm of the Pride Lands'' (1995). *"That's All I Need", written with Elton John, for '' The Lion King 1½'' (2004). Snippets of songs originally written by the pair for '' The Lion King'' also feature in the film. *"Peterloo", was requested by Sir Malcolm Arnold's estate to write lyrics to the Peterloo Overture St Peter's Fields Massacre and maiming of men, women and children at a meeting in Manchester in Aug 1819''">Peterloo Massacre">St Peter's Fields Massacre and maiming of men, women and children at a meeting in Manchester in Aug 1819'' There was in mind to use it in 2012 for the Olympics or for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations 0 years on thronebut instead it had its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London at ' The Last Night of the Proms' on Saturday 13 September 2014 which was broadcast on BBC television.
A Matter of Love
Lyrics written by Tim Rice for Taiwanese Prince of Ballads Jeff Chang (January 2021)

Other work

*From 1979 to 1982, Rice was co-host of the BBC2 chat show '' Friday Night, Saturday Morning''. *Made a rare appearance in an acting role as a newscaster reporting a plane crash in the 1981 Australian horror film '' The Survivor''. *Co-produced the 1986 London and 1988 Broadway productions of ''

'' as a partner in 3 Knights Ltd with Benny Andersson and

. *Co-produced the 1989 London production of '' Anything Goes'' as a partner in Anchorage Productions with Elaine Paige. *Co-produced, with

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, Elaine Paige's 1981 self-titled album *Occasional panellist on the

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panel game '' Just a Minute'' *Appears as host of the

weekly series ''Tim Rice's American Pie'' which explores the music and musicians of each state in the USA.

References

External links

Tim Rice – Official Site
* *
Tim Rice Songwriters Hall of Fame
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