ndrew Lloyd Weber can't write even passable lyrics most of the time
Then it's good he never wrote one. The lyricist for JCS as well as Evita and Joseph is Tim Rice. Back in ye olde days, he and Llyod Webber were regarded as a bit of a genius duo. Then they broke up, since then Llyod Webber worked with a number of other playwrights and lyricists, and Tim Rice wrote the lyrics for Chess ("One night in Bangkok...") as well as lycris for songs from Elton John, Freddy Mercury etc.
Sorry about the nitpick, but the Rice-Webber musicals really are distinguishable from the Webber-someone else stuff not least by their lyrics. Out of interest, the original Judas, back when JCS wasn't even a musical but a concept album, was Murray Head, brother to Anthony Stewart "Giles" Head, and Ian "Lead singer of Deep Purple" as Jesus.
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Then it's good he never wrote one. The lyricist for JCS as well as Evita and Joseph is Tim Rice. Back in ye olde days, he and Llyod Webber were regarded as a bit of a genius duo. Then they broke up, since then Llyod Webber worked with a number of other playwrights and lyricists, and Tim Rice wrote the lyrics for Chess ("One night in Bangkok...") as well as lycris for songs from Elton John, Freddy Mercury etc.
Sorry about the nitpick, but the Rice-Webber musicals really are distinguishable from the Webber-someone else stuff not least by their lyrics. Out of interest, the original Judas, back when JCS wasn't even a musical but a concept album, was Murray Head, brother to Anthony Stewart "Giles" Head, and Ian "Lead singer of Deep Purple" as Jesus.