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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre, and has been referred to as the most commercially successful composer in history. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from the British Government for services to Music, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. Several of his songs, notably The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera, I Dont Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar, Dont Cry for Me, Argentina and You Must Love Me from Evita, Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Memory from Cats have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals.His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group.