| Product Summary | | Label: Polygram Label Group | | UPC: 00731458957720 | | Release Date: 5/7/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60555139 | | Item#: MTQ43S | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24321 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Superstar - (from "Jesus Christ Superstar", with Murray Head/The Trinidad Singers) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber |  | | 2. As If We Never Said Goodbye - (from "The Phantom Of The Opera", with Barbra Streisand) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 3. Phantom Of The Opera, The - (from "The Phantom Of The Opera", with Sarah Brightman/Michael Crawford) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 4. You Must Love Me - (from "Evita", with Madonna) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 5. Any Dream Will Do - (from "Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", with Donny Osmond) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 6. Memory - (from "Cats", with Betty Buckley) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 7. Pie Jesu - (from "Requiem", with Charlotte Church) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 8. Music Of The Night, The - (from "The Phantom Of The Opera", with Michael Crawford) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 9. I Don't Know How To Love Him - (from "Jesus Christ Superstar", with Yvonne Elliman) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 10. Don't Cry For Me Argentina - (from "Evita", with Patti LuPone) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 11. Love Changes Everything - (from "Aspects Of Love", with Michael Ball) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 12. All I Ask Of You - (from "The Phantom Of The Opera", with Sarah Brightman) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 13. Perfect Year, The - (from "Sunset Boulevard", with Glenn Close/Alan Campbell) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 14. Vaults Of Heaven, The - (from "Whistle Down The Wind", with Tom Jones/Sounds Of Blackness) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 15. No Matter What - (from "Whistle Down The Wind", with Boyzone) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 16. Oh What A Circus - (from "Evita", with Mandy Patinkin) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 17. Whistle Down The Wind - (from "Whistle Down The Wind", with Sarah Brightman) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | | 18. Amigos Para Siempre - (from "Barcelona 1992 Olympics Theme", with Sarah Brightman/Jos? Carreras) ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber | | |
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(C) 2002 The Really Useful Group Ltd. under exclusive license to Polydor Ltd. (U.K.)
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Additional personnel includes: Murray Head, The Trinidad Singers, Barbara Streisand, Sarah Brightman, Jose Carreras, Michael Crawford, Madonna, Donny Osmond, Betty Buckley, Glen Close, Alan Campbell, Tom Jones, Sounds Of Blackness, Boyzone, Mandy Patinkin, Charlotte Church, Yvonne Elliman, Patti Lupone, Michael Ball, Cliff Richard (vocals); Gary Hines (arranger); David Caddick, Michael Reed, John Mauceri, Michael Dixon, Sean Edwards, Paul Bogaev (conductor); Orchestra Of The Welsh National Opera, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. | | Producers include: Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Barbara Streisand, Nigel Wright, Martin Levan. | | Compilation producer: Tris Penna. | | Engineers include: Alan M. O'Duffy, Martin Levan, Dick Lewzey. | | Recorded between 1969 & 1998. Includes liner notes by Paul Gambaccini. | | All tracks have been digitally remastered. | | The king of the modern musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber has achieved iconic status as a composer nonpareil. For those too overwhelmed by the prospect of disseminating his voluminous legacy via the five-disc box set NOW AND FOREVER, some career highlights have conveniently been culled for the single-disc distillation that is appropriately titled GOLD. | | One is immediately struck by the perfect mating of singer and material here. Just as Michael Crawford's big, dramatic voice lends itself perfectly to the two cuts included here from PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, so too does the emotional-facism subtext of EVITA's "You Must Love Me" perfectly suit self-made diva Madonna's will to power. Still, what's perhaps most striking about this collection is the fact that regardless of the decade, Webber's music seems remarkably impervious to trend or fashion. The only exception to this is the hippie orientation of the two tracks from JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (the churning, Sly Stone-like rhythm of "Superstar" and the gentle folk-rock of "I Don't Know How to Love Him," and that's obviously intentional anyway. If you've ever sighed longingly over the music from CATS, PHANTOM, or any of ALW's other successes, go for the GOLD. |
Musical Guests | | Tom Jones | | Barbra Streisand | | Jos? Carreras | | Sarah Brightman | | Patti LuPone | | Michael Crawford | | Donny Osmond | | Betty Buckley |
| | Artist Overview | | Known for his majestic, soaring stage scores which spare nothing on the rapturous pomp, Andrew Lloyd Webber swiftly ascended to the king's throne of both the West End and Broadway scenes. Beginning in the early 1970s with JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Webber unleashed an astonishing string of landmark musicals, including two of the Great White Way's longest running shows, the now-and-forever CATS and the organ-creeping PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Webber's creations even poked onto the American pop radio universe; "Superstar," "I Don't Know How To Love Him," and "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" all made the top 40 (for Murray Head, Yvonne Elliman, and Madonna respectively), while "Memory" garnered significant airplay. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/07/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 589 577 | | Label : UTV | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00731458957720 |
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