Get Onto My Cloud: The Tim Rice Podcast

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The original Evita album (part 1) Jul 20, 2020

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How to follow Jesus Christ Superstar? After failing to make headway working on a musical with Andrew Lloyd Webber based on PG Wodehouse’s immortal Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, Tim came up with the insane idea of a musical about the wife of an Argentine dictator. Before Evita became a stage show, it was a record. This episode of Get Onto My Cloud tells the story of that recording in the long hot British summer of 1976 featuring some out-takes and lesser known songs from the score, plus the original version of what became Don’t Cry For Me Argentina.

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Superstar Rocks Broadway (sort of) Jul 13, 2020

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Tim recalls the first time a work by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice made it to Broadway. The show was Jesus Christ Superstar, the year 1971, and it was not always plain sailing, despite the huge success of the 1970 studio album recording. But the work survived, and half a century on, continues to be performed around the world (except right now, obviously).

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Cliff and Heathcliff Jul 06, 2020

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In the early 1990s Cliff Richard invited Tim to write the lyrics for all the songs in his proposed musical Heathcliff. John Farrar was to compose the music. The resulting show failed to excite many of the critics, positively anyway, but the public thought otherwise and the show was a big hit. Tim’s thoughts on his venture into Bronte country with a true British music legend are revealed in episode 10 of his podcast Get Onto My Cloud. Please do.

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Aida - part two Jun 28, 2020

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In response to staggering, well encouraging, interest in Get Onto My Cloud episode eight, about Tim's musical with Sir Elton John, Aida, episode nine features three more songs from the show sung by the Broadway stars Heather Headley, Adam Pascal and Sherie Rene Scott, and some more background about the show's creation - including the composer and and lyricist’s failure to turn up and collect their Tonys.

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Aida - part one Jun 22, 2020

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In 1996 Tim and Elton, following their success with The Lion King movie, embarked upon the creation of an original Broadway show entitled Aida, which Verdi had had a go at 125 years earlier. Despite trials and tribulations, the show made it to Broadway four years later and ran for four and a half years, earning them both Tonys for best score, and has since played in more than 25 countries. Featuring the extraordinary voices of Heather Headley and Sir Elton himself, Get Onto My Cloud 8 tells just part of the story of this unusual and highly original show. More Aida no doubt in podcasts to come.

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Jesus Christ Superstar - the early days Jun 15, 2020

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50 years ago the unknown pairing of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice recorded the first ever version of their rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. They had wanted to introduce the work on stage but no theatrical producers wanted to know. Thus forced to make a cast album before the show, they unintentionally discovered a new way to launch a musical theatre project, and created a work that was much more in tune with a younger audience than would otherwise have been the case. Tim chats about this and the management and record company teams that helped them get Superstar off the ground. The episode features Murray Head and Yvonne Elliman and even a failed combo entitled Tim Rice and the Webber Group.

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Starmania Jun 08, 2020

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In 1989 Tim was invited to translate the most successful French musical ever to have played in France. No – not Les Miserables. Unfortunately. Although his adaptation of Starmania and its songs failed to extend the show’s fame to foreign parts, his work on the musical led to some of the most fascinating and unusual recordings of his career, featuring Tom Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Ronnie Spector, Celine Dion and Bros among others. In episode six of Get Onto My Cloud Tim tells his story of Starmania.

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Beauty and Aladdin Jun 01, 2020

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The great composer Alan Menken has won more Oscars (8) than anyone else alive today. Tim has worked with him on several projects, including Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. In this podcast he reveals how he stepped into the late Howard Ashman’s shoes, and plays the original demo of Aladdin’s A Whole New World - which features some lyrics that did not make it into the movie. He also talks about the new songs he wrote with Alan for Beauty and the Beast both on Broadway and more recently for the recent live action remake. All in 21 minutes or so.

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Coat of not Very Many Colours May 25, 2020

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Tim recounts writing of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and the first ever public performance of the then 20-minute work at Colet Court School in March 1968.

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Elton and Eldorado May 18, 2020

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Tim, having come to the realisation that he has written more than 40 songs with Sir Elton John, plays three of their lesser-known collaborations and chats about the animated movie The Road To El Dorado, for which they wrote the score, including an Elton duet featuring Randy Newman.

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