Birthplace: Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
biography
Tall and silver-haired, Rice began his lyric writing career in partnership with fellow music student Andrew Lloyd Webber in the mid-1960s. Their first produced musicals were drawn from Biblical themes: "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" (1967) and "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1969). Rice and Lloyd Webber pioneered the use of concept albums in raising both money for and public awareness of their music. The apotheosis of their collaboration was "Evita" (1979), a pop opera about Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron that was a success both in London and in New York and earned Rice two Tony
