Sir Tim Rice Tim Rice was born in 1944 in Buckinghamshire. He was educated at
Lancing College and briefly at the Sorbonne, Paris. His first song
to be published and recorded was "That’s My Story", a flop in 1965,
for which he wrote both words and music. He became a fully professional
writer in 1969 when he and Andrew Lloyd Webber signed a management
contract with David Land and Sefton Myers. He has written the complete lyrics for five musicals that have in
the West End, and subsequently around the world: Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Jesus Christ Superstar; Evita; Blondel;
and Chess. He has adapted the French-Canadian musical Starmania for
English speaking audiences, and has written six new songs for the stage
production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. He wrote the lyrics for the Disney animated films Aladdin and The Lion
King, winning Oscars in each case for one of the songs from the score,
and for the new Cliff Richard musical Heathcliff. He is chairman of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, an organisation
that distributes over £60 million annually to sporting and artistic
causes in the United Kingdom. He runs his own cricket team and writes
regularly about the game in the Daily Telegraph. He was knighted in 1994.