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Page numbers needed|date=January 2012Infobox musical artist| name = Tim Rice| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = non_performing_personnel| birth_name = Timothy Miles Bindon Rice| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|df=yes|1944|11|10| death_date =| origin = Amersham , Buckinghamshire , England, United Kingdom| instrument =| genre = Musical theatre , film , television | occupation = Lyricist | years_active = 1965–present| label =| associated_acts = Andrew Lloyd Webber , Alan Menken , Elton John , Stephen Oliver (composer)|Stephen Oliver , Björn Ulvaeus , Benny Andersson , Cliff Richard | website = URL| http://timrice.co.uk/ Sir Timothy Miles Bindon " Tim " Rice (born 10 November 1944) is a British people|British lyricist and author. An Academy Award , Golden Globe Award , Tony Award and Grammy Award -winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber , with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , Jesus Christ Superstar , Evita (musical)|Evita , and The Wizard of Oz (2011 musical)|The Wizard of Oz , and for his work for Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)|Walt Disney Studios with Alan Menken ( Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin , Beauty and the Beast (musical)|Beauty and the Beast , King David (musical)|King David ), Elton John ( The Lion King , The Road to El Dorado Aida (musical)|Aida ) and Ennio Morricone .
Early life
Rice was born at Shardeloes , an historic English country house near Amersham , Buckinghamshire , United Kingdom that was requisitioned as a maternity hospital during World War II . His father, Hugh Gordon Rice, served with the Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|Eighth Army and reached the rank of major during World War II, whilst his mother, Joan Odette (née Bawden), served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) as a photographic interpreter. http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Tim-Rice.html Tim Rice profile at filmreference.comcite news| url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article601064.ece | work=The Times | location=London | title=Granny had a ball during the blitz | date=6 August 2006 | accessdate=25 May 2010 After the war, they worked for the de Havilland aircraft company.
Rice lived in Croxley Green , Radlett and Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield , Hertfordshire as a child.
Education
Rice was educated at three independent school s: at Aldwickbury School , on the outskirts of Harpenden in Hertfordshire, followed by St Albans School (Hertfordshire)|St Albans School in the city of St Albans (also in Hertfordshire) and Lancing College , near the town of Lancing, West Sussex|Lancing in West Sussex , on the south coast of England. He left Lancing with GCE Advanced Level in the United Kingdom|GCE A-Levels in History and French and then started work as an articled clerk for a law firm in London, having decided not to apply for a university place.cite book|year=1999|first=Tim |last=Rice|isbn=0-340-65459-7|title=Oh, What a Circus: The Autobiography |publisher=Coronet Books|page=page needed|date=January 2012 He later attended Sorbonne University in Paris for a year.
Career
After studying for a year in Paris at the Sorbonne , Rice joined EMI Records as a management trainee on 6 June 1966. When EMI producer Norrie Paramor left to set up his own organisation in 1968, Rice joined him as an assistant producer, working with, among others, Cliff Richard . Rice has collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber , with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , Jesus Christ Superstar , Evita (musical)|Evita , Cricket (musical)|Cricket , and The Likes of Us . For The Walt Disney Company , Rice has collaborated individually with Alan Menken and Elton John , creating productions including Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin (winning an Academy Award , Golden Globe and Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the song " A Whole New World ") and The Lion King (winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Can You Feel the Love Tonight "). In 1996, his collaboration with Lloyd Webber for the film version Evita (film)|Evita won Rice his third Academy Award for Best Original Song with the song " You Must Love Me ". Rice has also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA on Chess (musical)|Chess and with Rick Wakeman on the concept albums 1984 (Rick Wakeman album)|1984 and Cost of Living .
Along with his brother Jo and radio presenters Mike Read 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. He has also been a frequent guest panelist for many years on the radio panel games Just a Minute and Trivia Test Match . Rice often jokes that he is most recognised in America for his appearance in the film About a Boy (film)|About a Boy . The film includes several clips from a (real) edition of the game show Countdown (game show)|Countdown on which he was the guest adjudicator. His other interests include cricket (he was President of the Marylebone Cricket Club|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 One Hit Wonderland , where he co-wrote the song which gave Hawks a top twenty hit in Albania.
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 (musical)|Evita in 1978. He is currently working on a sequel, covering his life and career since then.
Rice was made a Knight Bachelor by Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/detail? key=Sir+Tim+Rice Disney Legends — Sir Tim Rice (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 Hollywood Walk of Fame .cite web |url= http://www.timrice.co.uk/bio.html |title=Sir Tim Rice - Career Synopsis |author=Tim Rice |accessdate=13 October 2009 Tim is writing eight lyrics to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 's ballet, The Nutcracker . The working title is The Nutcracker: The Untold Story .cite web |url= http://www.timrice.co.uk/nc.html |title=The Nutcracker: The Untold Story |author=Tim Rice |accessdate=11 June 2009
Rice will be re-united with Andrew Lloyd Webber in 2011 to pen new songs for Andrew's newest production of The Wizard of Oz (2011 musical)|The Wizard of Oz which opened in March 2011 at the London Palladium .
He will also be participating in the Bush Theatre 's 2011 project Sixty Six where he has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/
On 15 and 22 October 2011 Rice was guest presenter for the BBC Radio 2 show Sounds of the 60s , standing in for regular presenter Brian Matthew who was unwell. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wqlv/episodes/2011 "Episodes from Sounds of the 60s broadcast in 2011" at bbc.co.uk
Personal life
Rice married Jane McIntosh on 19 August 1974, but the marriage dissolved in the late 1980s after the British tabloid newspapers revealed that he had been conducting an affair with actress/singer Elaine Paige .Hastings, Christopher. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3023422/Elaine-Paige-Sex-drugs-and-musicals.html "Elaine Paige: Sex, drugs and musicals", telegraph.co.uk, 20 September 2008.Middlehurst, Lester. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-9553019/DON-T-CRY-FOR-ME.html "Dont Cry For Me!", The Daily Mail , 20 May 2006.Kay, Richard. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-228673/Cry-Tim-Rice--hes-single-again.html "Cry for Tim Rice - he's single again", dailymail.co.uk, 9 December 2003. Jane retains the title Lady Rice. They have two children, Eva and Donald. Eva Rice, who was named after the title character from Evita , is the author of the novel The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets , which was a finalist for the British Book Awards|British Book Award Best Read of the Year.
Tim Rice supports Sunderland A.F.C. Association football|football club. http://salutsunderland.com/2011/02/rice-crisply-sir-tim-misses-spurs-but-supports-us-still "Sir Tim Rice on his SAFC passion" He was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Sunderland at a ceremony at the Stadium of Light in November 2006.cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6188564.stm |date=27 November 2006 | title= University honour for songwriter |work=BBC News He was also a supporter of the Conservative Party (UK)|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." http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/feb/15/conservatives.uk "Tim Rice: Tories no longer love me". Guardian Media Group|Guardian News and Media Limited , 15 February 2007.
Describing his religion, Rice has stated, “Technically I'm Church of England, which is really nothing. But I don't follow it. I wouldn't say I was a Christian. 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." http://news.google.com/newspapers? nid=1876& dat=19821127& id=uzwsAAAAIBAJ& sjid=4s4EAAAAIBAJ& pg=6254,6671012 "Lyricist is Unreligious"
Rice runs his own amateur Heartaches Cricket Club, the name inspired by an Elvis Presley song.Viner, Brian. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/rice-revels-in-latest-role-as-mcc-superstar-613242.html "Rice revels in latest role as MCC superstar", independent.co.uk, 5 October 2002.
In September 1981, Rice, along with Colin Webb and Michael Parkinson, co-founded Pavilion Books with a publishing focus on music and the arts.cite web |url= http://www.capelland.com/pages/broadcasters/index.asp? CID=148 |title=Capel & Land & #124; UK Literary and Talent Agency, London & #124; Tim Rice } |work=capelland.com |year=2010 |accessdate=January 2, 2012
Musical theatre
1967 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
1970 - Jesus Christ Superstar with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
1976 - Evita (musical)|Evita with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
1983 - Blondel (musical)|Blondel with music by Stephen Oliver
1984 - Chess (musical)|Chess with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
1986 - Cricket (musical)|Cricket with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
1992 - Tycoon (musical)|Tycoon
1994 - Beauty and the Beast (musical)|Beauty and the Beast with lyrics by Howard Ashman and Rice with music by Alan Menken
1996 - Heathcliff (musical)|Heathcliff with music by John Farrar
1997 - King David (musical)|King David with music by Alan Menken
2000 - Aida (musical)|Aida with music by Elton John
2005 - The Likes of Us with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (written in 1965, but first staged at the Sydmonton Festival on 9 July 2005 http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/likesofus.htm "First Lloyd Webber/Rice Collaboration on CD", British Theatre Guide , 6 October 2005)
2011 - The Wizard of Oz (2011 musical)|The Wizard of Oz with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Film and television work
In addition to adaptations of his theatrical productions, Rice has worked on several original film and television projects:
1994 - The Lion King with music by Elton John , score by Hans Zimmer
2000 - The Road to El Dorado with music by Elton John, score by Hans Zimmer and John Powell
Lyricist
"Legal Boys", recorded on Elton John 's album Jump Up!
"The Golden Boy" and "The Fallen Priest", recorded on Freddie Mercury 's solo album Barcelona (album)|Barcelona
1981 concept album 1984 (Rick Wakeman album)|1984 composed by Rick Wakeman and inspired by the George Orwell novel of the same title
"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 (composer)|John Barry and sung by Rita Coolidge (1983).
Other work
Co-produced the 1986 London and 1988 Broadway productions of Chess (musical)|Chess as a partner in 3 Knights Ltd with Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.
Co-produced the 1989 London production of Anything Goes as a partner in Anchorage Productions with Elaine Paige .
Co-produced, with Andrew Powell , Elaine Paige's 1981 self-titled album
Occasionally appears as a panelist on the BBC Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute .
Appears as host of the BBC Radio 2 weekly series '' Tim Rice's American Pie which explores the music and musicians of each state in the USA.
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References
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External links
http://www.timrice.co.uk Tim Rice – Official Site
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sir-Tim-Rice-Official/104931586217569 Tim Rice – Facebook
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Tim RiceAcademyAwardBestOriginalSong 1991–2000DramaDesk Lyrics 1971–2000Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song 1990sGrammy Award for Song of the Year 1990sTonyAward MusicalScore 1976–2000Use dmy dates|date=August 2010 Persondata | NAME = Rice, Tim | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Timothy Miles Bindon Rice | SHORT DESCRIPTION = British lyricist | DATE OF BIRTH = 10 November 1944 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Amersham , Buckinghamshire , England, United Kingdom | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Rice, Tim Category:1944 births Category:Best Song Academy Award winning songwriters Category:Drama Desk Award winners Category:English lyricists Category:English musical theatre lyricists Category:English songwriters Category:People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Knights Bachelor Category:Living people Category:People educated at Lancing College Category:People from St Albans Category:Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club Category:Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees Category:Tony Award winners
